Maya script that forces the Local Rotation Axis display on or off for all joints/transforms or the selected joints/transforms.

bm_axisDisplay.py

import maya.cmds as cmds

# bm_axisDisplay
# Forces the Local Rotation Axis display on or off for all joints or for the selected joints or transforms

def setAxisDisplay(display=False, allObj=False):
    # if no joints are selected, do it for all the joints in the scene
    # if allObj flag is True then this will toggle the axis display for all objects in the scene, not just joints.
    if not allObj:
        if len(cmds.ls(sl=1, type="joint")) == 0:
            jointList = cmds.ls(type="joint")
        else:
            jointList = cmds.ls(sl=1, type="joint")
        # set the displayLocalAxis attribute to what the user specifies.
        for jnt in jointList:
            cmds.setAttr(jnt + ".displayLocalAxis", display)
    else:
        if len(cmds.ls(sl=1)) == 0:
            objList = cmds.ls(transforms=1)
        else:
            objList = cmds.ls(sl=1)
        # set the displayLocalAxis attribute to what the user specifies.
        for obj in objList:
            cmds.setAttr(obj + ".displayLocalAxis", display)


# turn off the Local Rotation Axis display for all transform nodes in the scene
setAxisDisplay(display=False,allObj=True)

holy shit thank you so much.

maya had 22 fucking years to implement this 😂

it doesn't work in maya 2023