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Maya incorporates many shortcuts with hot keys, for example, to move and translate an object you can go over to your toolbar and select a translate move tool or rotation tool or you can simply press W for translation, E for rotation and R for scale. You can also press Q to make the manipulator disappear, this comes in handy at times when you're trying to select certain components and you'll find that the manipulator will actually get in the way of your selections, so by having the manipulator disabled, pressing Q it allows you to much easier select different components. You can move from component mode back to working mode by simply pressing F8. F8 allows you to ping pong back and forth from both of those modes rather than having to actually right select on the object and go to the different components. 4 gives you wire frame, 5 gives you shaded mode and 6 will give you textures should you have textures within your scene. Again, 4 is wire frame, 5 is shaded, 6 is textured and 7 is lighting if you happen to have lights in your scene, 7 will enable them. Pressing on F1 will bring up the Maya help which will allow you to search through the various menus. Pressing on F2 will actually begin changing the different working modes. F2 takes us into animation, F3 into polygon modeling, F4 goes into surfaces, and F5 into dynamics. If you'd like to move your components one pixel at a time, select your component and holding down the Alt or Option key, using the arrow key you can actually begin moving your components in one pixel increments. You can also do snapping, by holding down the X key that will allow you to actually snap to any of the grid lines. Holding down the V key is for vertex snapping so the V will allow me to actually snap to any vertices that is currently within my scene on any object. F allows us to frame our scene, whatever object is selected, F will frame in the camera that object. If we were to choose A that will frame all within our scene. So selecting an object and pressing F now frames that object directly centered to the camera lens. It will also center a component such as a face or even a vertices so now this vertices is now centered in my camera. The G key allows us to redo the previous action, if I extrude a face for example, I don't have to hit the extrude face once again to extrude I can simply press G. This makes modeling, especially box modeling very quick. Pressing the Z key allows me to undo my last command. Maya allows you to undo unlimited queue back to the original beginning of your model. Pressing P allows you to parent objects, so if I choose I can select an object then shift select on the object I wish to be a parent and press P. The cube now remains the child, it's independent, but once I select on the cylinder, the cylinder now becomes the parent of that child so wherever I move or rotate the parent the child will follow. To break the parent child connection, select on the child and hold down shift and press P once again. Now the cube is no longer connected to the cylinder. To duplicate an object, select on the object and press control D, that will duplicate your object. And to group two objects together yet leave them independent of one another select both objects and press Control G. Now each object is independent of one another but by selecting one and using your up arrow, you'll now select every object within the group. Selecting the down arrow will deselect just back to the original selection. To save a scene simply choose Control S. You can easily save out your scene, there are many more hot key shortcuts within Maya, simply choose F1 for Maya help to learn more about them.