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Every rig tool, one flick away

AM Rig Menu is a marking menu for posing rigs in Maya. Hold your hotkey, click in the viewport, and flick: reset a control, mirror a pose, switch a space or an IK/FK limb, select everything below — without a trip to the shelf, the Channel Box or the Outliner.

It knows rigs built with AM_Rig and offers its full set there. On any other rig it still gives you the everyday essentials.

Install it First steps

The AM Rig Menu marking menu open in a Maya viewport: a ring of commands around the click point — Toggle Display, Isolate, Reset Translate, X-Ray, Reset, Select all controls, Reset Scale — and a list under it with Space, the IK/FK switches, Mirror, Flip and Settings

Start where you are

  • I want it running

    Drag one file into a Maya viewport and press Install. It joins the AM_Tools module your other AM tools use, and starts with Maya from then on.

    Install

  • I installed it — now what?

    Pick the key that raises the menu, hold it, click, and flick towards a command. Two minutes, and you will not go back.

    First steps

  • What is in the menu?

    Every item, where it sits, what it does, and which ones only appear on an AM_Rig control.

    The menu

  • Spaces and IK/FK

    Switch a control's space without it jumping, add new spaces to a control, and match an IK limb to FK — keyed, if you ask.

    Space switching · IK/FK

  • I build rigs

    The attributes and naming the menu looks for, so a rig of your own gets the same options an AM_Rig does.

    Making a rig work with it

  • Something is wrong

    The menu does not open, an item is missing, a switch did nothing — the usual causes, and what to do about each.

    Troubleshooting

At a glance
Price Free — MIT licence
Maya 2020 and later, on Windows, macOS and Linux
Install Drag drag_n_drop_install.py into a viewport
Lives in The shared AM_Tools module, with a shelf button
Plug-ins Optional — weightDriver, chosen in the installer
Updates Checked once a day in the background; you decide