Bug or User Error?

[rgkovach]

I am using Maya 2008, when I try to use the command:

polySelect -noSelection -asSelectString -extendToShell 4 pCubeShape1;

it returns all of the faces instead of the polys that make up the shell to which face #4 belongs too...

is this a bug in maya or am i misinterpreting the use of this command?

edit: i think the problem is I was looking for a way to go from a Face to a UV shell and the command is going from a face to a Poly Shell....This command doesn't appear to be what I was looking for.

[thnkr]

try
polySelectConstraint -sh 1 -bo 0 -m 2;resetPolySelectConstraint;

or the simple runtime command

SelectUVShell

[rgkovach]

I did end up using selection constraints, but i was ideally looking for a command that would just return the UV shell components instead of selecting them...

Checking a large object with thousands of polys and dozens of shells can slow down quite a bit with all the selecting and deselecting to track down the shells...

There doesn't seem to be any MEL command or script that just returns a list of faces or uvs for a given shell....

[joojaa]

there isnt