Maya use spacebar to drop/finish tool

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I’m using MODO a lot. There are bunch of neat modeling tools with this package. Then seems my muscle start to remember hotkeys and behavior of how I modeling.
One of the most frequent function is use space bar to drop current modeling tool. e.g. current tool is “Bevel”. Then after finishing beveling edge, use spacebar to drop the “Bevel” tool and return to “Select” tool.

But, in Maya, spacebar is to popup the hot box and switch between single view and quad view. (if you press sapcebar slowly, will only popup hot box.) Seems like same key controls 2 different functions.(hotbox and switch viewport)

what I want in Maya is:

  • use space bar to drop current modeling tool.
  • I kind never use the switch viewport function. So better to turn it off.

I cannot find any built-in script to control these other than a command called “hotBox”. But also cannot get what I want.

So I made a “if statement” to the spacebar hotkey. Both show hotBox and hide hotBox.


//show hotbox
if (`currentCtx` == "selectSuperContext" || `currentCtx` == "moveSuperContext" || `currentCtx` == "RotateSuperContext" || `currentCtx` == "scaleSuperContext")
hotBox;
else
SelectTool;

//hide hotbox
if (`currentCtx` == "selectSuperContext" || `currentCtx` == "moveSuperContext" || `currentCtx` == "RotateSuperContext" || `currentCtx` == "scaleSuperContext")
hotBox -release;
else
SelectTool;

Any better ideas?