Polygons: Simple Extrude face problem?

[Levitateme]

sorry, i rarley do extrudes like that. have you tried freezing transformation and then extruding?

[greekdish]

Tom N...I just tried recreating what you did and its weird as to why it happened, but I know how you can solve it....maybe this is a bug with Maya.....what version are you using by the way??

Well, change your poly sides to 8 or 6 instead of 7....seems having the odd number poly sides makes it go whackie....I got the same result you did with 7 sides, but it worked fine for 8 and 6. Go figure. I would post this on Alias's website forum. This was with Maya 4.5 and 5 as well. I wonder if Alias knows about this, or if there is a workaround.

:shrug: :shrug: :thumbsdow

[sbp]

Give the cylinder a little y rotation before the extrusion.

[MasonDoran]

i got it to work when i did 2 things....


i rotated on the plane of the extrusion, then extrude with faces together......once i got the scale that i liked i then made faces seperate in the channel box. i could then just correct the rotation to what it was before.

[alexx]

i just had the same problem some days ago and posted as well..

so basically there is no real solution that works for all occasions of this problem.
this seems to be the fact since maya does not really handle the local axis of all the faces, but only the local axis of the last selected face..

i have no idea if other programs are smarter in that case (but i guess they are..)

cheers

alexx

[ambient-whisper]

Originally posted by alexx
i have no idea if other programs are smarter in that case (but i guess they are..)
cheers
alexx

yeah never ran accross this problem anywhere but maya before :)

[Levitateme]

its annoying yes, but if you want to get around that here is what i would do>

i would delete the stubborn faces, and the duplicate some of your good faces to replace taht area, use snap to point get get it in teh exact location that s just what i...ok cya

[Tom N.]

wow i didn't think i'd get so many responses so soon. thanks a lot everyone. Sucks that something so simple has to be so buggy in maya! And greekdish you're right, I have tried with 6 and it worked fine. I have 7 in my model because I'm modeling rims for a car and the picture I'm using has 7 so I was trying to be accurate :p oh well. Thanks everyone

-Tom N.

[p@g0]

you guys a really funny haha :P

heh it is a simple problem but pretty annoying..

it is an option called.. keep face togheter.. wich is not check by default ( it should be bu whatever... i aint the Maya programmer lol)

ok.. if you want your extrude to allways stay togheter heres what you have to do...

in the modelling menu
POLYGON>Tool options> Keep Faces togheters

here ya go my friends!!

Have fun :P

[p@g0]

LOL sorry for my post... I was totally wrong... not even talking about the same subject lol sorry!

by the way.. have you try to press the yellow icon on top of the axis.. it change from GLObal movement to Object movement!

regards,

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