Creat Nurbs Curve from Poly Edges?

[mikedin]

I recently upgraded from Maya 4.0 to Maya 6.0.

At somepoint I thought I heard of a bonus tools item that would create a 1 degreee Nurbs curve from the selected Polygon Edges.

I looked at Alias bonus tools section and it's not a part of Maya 6 tools so I assumed that was in the core package now.

Anyone know where I can get this or how to use it if it is in Maya6 now.

Thanks a bunch,

[fomstudios]

You can do this with standard operations in any version of Maya. Select the poly edges and go to Edit Curves > Duplicate Surface Curves. This will create degree 1 NURBS curves from the selected edges.

Cheers,
Eric

[mikedin]

Not any version of Maya I've owned...

Not duping from a Nurbs surface but from a Poly surface.

For others reading this post. I've installed the Maya 6 bonus tools for that specific script. Unfortunately it won't work. Don't know why yet but it appears that all the plugs/scripts that are new in Bonustools for Maya6 work but that the pathing for Maya5 plug/scripts aren't working. As well as a good portion of the help docs.

Cripes,

[failure]

No, it works for poly surfaces too.
The problem is that each poly edge gets duplicated as separate degree 1 curve. You have to manually attach them all into one curve.

[user_deleted]

actualy i have that same path problem on maya 5 on a mac.

[alphajoe]

I just tried it on a poly object, it doesn't work. I don't get an error, but I don't get any curves either.

[fomstudios]

Create a Poly cube. Right click, choose Edge, select the edges you wish to duplicate. Go to Edit Curves > Duplicate Surface Curves. Done. Works for me. Make sure you have Show > NURBS Curves on.

[joojaa]

work fine atleast in maya 3.5, 4, 4.5, 5 and 6!

[ereitz]

Using edit>duplicate surface curves doesn't work for me.

Using the bonus tool curve on poly doesn't work either and sometimes I have received this error message:
Error: Wrong number of arguments on call to createCrv.

I have my shelf button from an earlier version which had worked: crvOnPoly. It's not working either.

Could this be a problem originating from different versions of maya? ie Complete and Unlimited? I'm using 6.0 Complete with bonus tools.

[joojaa]

Hard to say but it works on ple (wich is 5) and a academic 6 complete and a normal unlimitted so that shouldnt be the problem! Are you sure you dont have any script on your system screwing things up!

[ereitz]

Hi Joojaa - on cgtalk someone updated Steven T. L. Roselle's crvOnPoly.mel for maya 6 and that worked fine.

It is likely something on my system but unfortunately I don't know what that might be. What kind of script could interfere with a .mel script? Another .mel? A plugin? Actually I was thinking the old crvOnPoly might have interfered so I dumped it and the Bonus tools script still didn't work. Anyway - the crvOnPoly update solved my problem - getting a curve with history on a poly surface...