poly seperation by angle

[dagmath]

anyone with any ideas on this?

[benclark]

I'm trying to picture what you mean here but its late. Could you post an image?

[dagmath]

well basically if a group of polygons has all hard edges seperate that polygon group into a new object.

Any help would be great.

[cshanks]

Not sure about the hard edge problem. You could select the faces with hard edges and extract them.

[frothlord]

Max has an option to do this. As far as I know Maya does not.

[MasonDoran]

it does...but probably needs to be scripted for a faster workflow.

look under selection constraints in one of the poly menus. You will at lease be able to select by angle...and then "extract" from there.

[dagmath]

Thanks for the replies.

I thought that max had a tool for doing this....

I will give the suggestions a go.

Again thanks to all

[dagmath]

anyone know a way of selecting all the hard edges in an object? I can display them differently (soft/hard), so there must be a way.- i can script it but need a few pointers :)

[goleafsgo]

anyone know a way of selecting all the hard edges in an object?

Select the object and run this:

ConvertSelectionToEdges;
polySelectConstraint -m 2 -sm 1;
resetPolySelectConstraint;

[dagmath]

good-man

you are indeed a know-it-all!

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