What's New in General in Maya 2017 Update 3

Viewport 2.0 enhancements

Maya 2017 Update 3 introduces a number of Viewport 2.0 feature enhancements for modelers and animators as well as for shading and lighting. Some highlights include:

Horizontal or Vertically dock shelf

You can now dock the shelf with a horizontal or vertical orientation to better fit the UI layout you've set up. For more information, see Orient a shelf.

Better docking highlights

The UI now highlights more clearly when dragging windows to better indicate where that window will be docked.

Automatically save workspaces

You can now choose whether or not to automatically save workspace layout changes in the Workspace layout options.

Dash scripting

A new form of fully customizable scripting has been added to the Channel Box. To use it, select one or more attributes and then Alt + right-click them to display an in-line editor, then input a command. For more information, see Dash scripting.

Content Browser performance improvement

The Content Browser now opens much faster than before.

Content Browser Python support

The Content Browser now sources .py files. Dragging and dropping one into the scene automatically executes its onMayaDroppedPythonFile method. For more information, see Find and import files from the Content Browser.

Various icon refreshes

Various icons around the interface have been modernized so that they scale better.