you can use the isolate selected feature in the perspective view to acheive this.Show > Isolate Select > View Selected
You can easily create a hotkey to toggle isolate selection... I always map this command to the i key...very usefull. On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Dean Edmonds <dean.edmo...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 20:38, Dean Edmonds<dean.edmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 02:16, Dimitry<dima.archit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> it is possible to hide selected faces, by using pymel? > > > > Maya does not currently provide a way for hiding just specific faces > > of a mesh. The best you can do is to assign those faces to shader > > which is fully transparent and then turn on h/w shading in your shaded > > views. > > Apparently it works even if h/w shading is not on. > > Learn something new every day. > > -- > -deane > > > > -- "A pit would not be complete without a Freeman coming out of it." The Vortigaunt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/python_inside_maya -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---