Maya Beginner Tutorial Series 15/17: Deleting Construction History

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As you model anything, Maya will begin to acquire object's construction history. These are all the steps you've done to an object being kept in memory.

Object Construction History will begin to increase Maya's file size, decrease scene calculation speed, slow down viewport rendering and increase the changes of the file becoming corrupted.

Unless you periodically Delete Construction History on that object. Here is how...

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Deleting Construction History

Here is an object that has been worked on and accumulated Construction History:

Select an object in the scene that you want to delete construction history on:

Go to Edit > Delete by Type > History:

Or use a shortcut:

• Alt + Shift + D = Delete History

Object's history has now been deleted:

Do this every once in a while as your object accumulates history.

You may want to add "Delete History" tool to your shelf:

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