ABSTRACT
To fully understand what can be done with Python in Maya, we must first discuss how Maya has been designed. There are several ways that users can interact with or modify Maya. The standard method is to create content using Maya’s graphical user interface (GUI). This interaction works like any other software application: Users press buttons or select menu items that create or modify their documents or workspaces. Despite how similar Maya is to other software, however, its underlying design paradigm is unique in many ways. Maya is an open product, built from the ground up to be capable of supporting new features designed by users. Any Maya user can modify or add new features, which can include a drastic redesign of the main interface or one line of code that prints the name of the selected object.
