Steven Roselle does a quick look over the UV improvements in Maya 2017

Some pretty nice new tools for UV editing.. actually makes it look enjoyable

• symmetrize UV Tool  ( easier way to make your UV layout symmetrical) 
• UnFold3D layout options ( better packing and layout options) 
• auto Seams  ( automatically generates uv seams)
• pre rotations for uv packing
• multi tile uv packing
• multi object uv packing
• shell vs object uv distortion display

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