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To verify or change keyboard shortcuts in Autodesk Maya (8.5 and 2008):

Window -> Settings / Preferences -> Hotkey Editor

SNAPPING OPERATIONS

c	Snap to curves
x	Snap to grids
v	Snap to points
j	Move, Rotate, Scale Tool snapping
Shft+J	Move, Rotate, Scale Tool relative snapping

PAINTING OPERATIONS

Alt+f	Flood with the current value
Alt+a	Turn Show Wireframe on/off
Alt+c	Turn Color Feedback on/off
Alt+r	Toggle Reflection on/off
u+LMB	Artisan Paint Operation marking menu
b	Modify upper brush radius
Shft+B	Modify lower brush radius
Ctrl+b	Edit Paint Effects template brush settings
i	Modify Artisan brush Stamp Depth
m	Modify Max Displacement (Of Sculpt Surfaces and Sculpt Polygons Tool)
n	Modify Value
/	Switch to pick colour mode
‘	Select cluster mode (Of Paint Weights Tool )
8	Open Paint Effects panel
o+LMB	Poly Brush Tool marking menu
o+MMB	Poly UV Tool marking menu

 

TUMBLE, TRACK or DOLLY

Alt+LMB	Tumble Tool
Alt+MMB	Track Tool
Alt+RMB	Dolly Tool

 

DISPLAY

4	Shading > Wireframe
5	Shaded display
6	Shaded and Textured display
7	Lighting > Use All Lights
d+LMB	Display Quality marking menu
1	Low Quality Display setting
2	Medium Quality Display setting
3	High Quality Display settin

 

DISPLAYING OBJECTS (show, hide)

Ctrl+h	Display > Hide > Hide Selection
Ctrl+Shft+H	Display > Show > Show Last Hidden
Alt+h	Display > Hide > Hide Unselected Objects
Shft+I	Show > Isolate Select > View Selected

 

TOOL OPERATIONS

Return	Complete current tool
~	Abort current tool
Insert	Enter tool Edit mode
Shft menu+Q	Select Tool
Shft menu+Q+LMB	Component marking
Alt+q	Select tool
Alt+q+LMB	Polygon marking menu
q+LMB	Mask marking menu
w	Move tool
w+LMB	Move tool marking menu
e	Rotate tool
e+LMB	Rotate tool marking menu
r	Scale tool
r+LMB	Scale tool marking menu
t	Show manipulator tool
y	Select last used tool (Excluding Select, Move, Rotate and Scale)
j	Snap Move, Rotate, Scale tool
= or +	Increase manipulator size
-	Decrease manipulator size

 

ANIMATION OPERATIONS

s	Animate > Set key
i	Insert Keys tool (for graph editor)
Shft+S+LMB	Keyframe marking menu
Shft+S+MMB	Tangent marking menu
Shft+E	Set key for Rotate
Shft+R	Ser key for Scale
Shft+W	Set key for Translate
Alt+s	Cycle handle sticky state (for IK handles)

 

PLAYBACK CONTROLS

Alt+.	Move forward one frame
Alt+,	Move backward one frame
.	Go to Next key
,	Go to previous key
Alt+v	Turn Playback on/off
Alt+Shft+v	Go to Min Frame

 

HOTBOX DISPLAY

Space	Hotbox
Alt+m	Default Hotbox Style (Zones and Menus Rows)

 

WINDOW AND VIEW OPERATIONS

Crtl+a	Toogle Attribute Editor and Channel Box
a	Frame all in active panel
a+LMB	History Operations marking menu
Shft+A	Frame All in all views
f	Frame selected in active panel
Shft+F	Frame selected in all views
]	Redo view change
[	Undo view change
`	Set keyboard focus to command line
Alt+`	Set keyboard focus to numeric input line
F1	Help > Contents and Search

 

MOVING SELECTED OBJECTS

Alt+Up arrow	Move up one pixel
Alt+Down arrow	Move down one pixel
Alt+Left arrow	Move left one pixel
Alt+Right arrow	Move right one pixel

 

TRAVERSING THE HIERARCHY

Up arrow	Walk up the current hierarchy
Down arrow	Walk down current hierarchy
Left arrow	Walk left current hierarchy
Right arrow	Walk right current hierarchy

 

MODELING OPERATIONS

Crtl+Up arrow	Display coarser Sub-d level
Crtl+Down arrow	Select/refine Sub-d component
Crtl+F9	Convert poly selection to Vertices
Crtl+F10	Convert poly selction to Edges
Crtl+F11	Covert poly selection to Faces
Crtl+F12	Convert poly selction to UVs

 

FILE OPERATIONS

Ctrl+n	File > New Scene
Ctrl+o	File > Open Scene
Ctrl+s	File > Save Scene
Ctrl+q	File > Exit

 

SELECTING MENUS

Ctrl+m	Show/Hide main menu bar
Shft+m	Show/Hide panel menu bar
h+LMB	Menu Set marking menu
F2	Show Animation menu set
F3	Show Modeling menu set
F4	Show Dynamics menu set
F5	Show Rendering menu set

 

EDIT OPERATIONS

z or Ctrl+z	Edit > Undo
Shft+z	Edit > Redo
g	Edit > Repeat
Shft+G	Repeat command at mouse position
Ctrl+d	Edit > Duplicate
Shft+D	Edit > Duplicate with Transform
Crtl+g	Edit > Group
p	Edit > Parent
Shft+P	Edit > Unparent
Crtl+x	Edit > Cut
Crtl+c	Edit > Copy
Ctrl+v	Edit > Paste

 

SELECTING OBJECTS AND COMPONENTS

F8	Switching between Object and Component Editing
F9	Select Polygon and Subdivision Surface Vertices
F10	Select Polygon and Subdivision Surface Edges
F11	Select Polygon and Subdivision Surface Faces
F12	Select Polygon and Subdivision Surface UVs
Ctrl+i	Select next intermediate object
Alt+F9	Select Polygon Vertex/Faces
<	Shrink polygon selection region
>	Grow polygon selection region