Render View Panel Is Titled "render Window Panel 1"?

[2livelarge]

Some how a certain file I am working on has screwed up the default render view panel???
When you go to choose a panel the option is "Render Window Panel 1"?
If you want to change to a preconfigured layout that already has the Render view in it, you get a "Only one instance of this panel type allowed: renderWindowPanel"
I guess I have some panel artifact somewhere? So, now what do i do?

[user_deleted]

Hi,
We had the problem recently when importing files (as .mb) into another files.
Some panels (rendering, UV editor) were then duplicated (hence the name "panel..1") and for some of them unusable.
We solved the problem by first converting the file to be imported to .ma, and removing at the end of the file all the lines relative to the UI preferences before importing it in another scene.

In your case, try to select your necessary objects, lights ... and export them as mb, then try opening the new file. I suppose the duplicates will be gone.
If not, export as .ma and go through the file to remove the lines referencing those panels.

Hope it helps, for a start.

Guyb.

[adam-clear]

I too was receiving the message:

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Error: Only one instance of this panel type allowed: renderWindowPanel

I was able to correct it (or at least circumvent it) by using guy_iti's suggestion of exporting the selection to a .ma file. I didn't have to delete any UI code in the file. In fact, I couldn't find any when I went looking.

I did have to restart Maya after exporting. I first tried File>Open immediately after exporting and got the same message. Then I closed everything and opened the newly exported .ma file and it worked perfectly.

Thanks, guy_iti!