Here's a screenshot of how I reduced my interface for working in Maya.
Encircled in red (last used tool, snap buttons and channelbox/toolbox/attribute editor) are the only tools that I still want to see on my screen.
Is there a way to get them in a new hotbox menu or marking menu?

It'd be nice to actually work in full screen space since I only have a 17" monitor and am working in 1152*864.

sry, I forgat to add the pic:o
here it is:

ups, feel free to delete the previous msg administrator. sry about that.

You can create a shelf for those buttons, but you cant add the last used tool button as i changes all the time

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Yeah, but no but yeah but no....

u dnt need a hotbox or anything cos there are hotkeys for them
attribute editor/layer view = ctrl A
snap to grid = hold x
snap to curve = hold c
snap to point = hold v

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- Simon

My Website: www.Glass-Prison.com

I check out what I can do with some custom made shelves. Hopefully they won't take up too much space.
as for the hotkeys, thx Nem. I'll attach a little paper to my monitor to learn them fast as I'm using them.
Is there a hotkey for the Toolsettingswindow? I mean the one that's attached like the channelbox. Not a floating window.

There's a tutorial in the vid section showing you how to make custom marking menus. Highly recommended.

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Danny Ngan
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Yeah, if you use these a whole bunch, you could just make yourself a custom marking menu. It's really simple to do. =]

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- Chris L. Harkins -

ya, I know how to make one (saw the vids here and at digitaltutors) but I can't see the code in my script editor when I hit the middle button at the right-top (show/hide toolsettings).
Does anyone know a way to get that in a menu?
As for the snap tools, I've learned those hotkeys by now.
I'll leave the toolbox on for now until I make myself a shelf with more than just 1 button (last used tool) in it.

It's just:

ToggleToolSettings;

oh i missed this the first time, but u also circled sumthing in the toolboxon the left, that buttons ur last tool button, hotkey for that is "Y"

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- Simon

My Website: www.Glass-Prison.com

thx Jozvex, I'll try that out tonight (at school now) and Nem, thx for your answer but I already knew that button

I made 2 shelves for now (misc and poly), later to be added when I learn about the other techniques in Maya.
Since the Last used tool can't be in a shelf, I left the toolbox on so I can always see what the tool is set to.

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