The hotbox contains every action available in the Maya interface. It appears when you hold down the space bar.

The hotbox has three main functions:

• It contains every menu and menu item. This is useful if you want to quickly use an action from another menu set without switching menu sets.
• You can use the hotbox to select actions even if you’ve hidden the menu bar and other UI to save space.
• The hotbox provides five customizable marking menus you can show by clicking inside, above, below, left, or right of the hotbox menus.

To select an action from the hotbox

1. Hold the space bar to show the hotbox. The hotbox remains on screen as long as you hold the space bar.
2. Click one of the menus, or hold above, below, to the left, to the right, or in the center of the hotbox to show marking menus.