Cutting off cone tip

[breadman86]

I'm very much a Maya n00b but I think I'm gettin the hang of it... I was making the lamp that is sitting right next to me this morning and I ran into a problem though. The lamp shade is a cone shape, but with the tip of the cone cut off. I have sized my cone exactly to the right deminsions and now all I have to do is chop off the tip of the cone so there is a flat face on the top instead of a point... can anyone direct me on how I am supposed to perform this action?

[sibben]

A) Split with Split Polygon tool and snap the resulting vertices horisontaly. Use Append to Polygon tool to fill the hole. Or select the top edges and do Fill Hole.

Download Poly Tools from AW and use Cut Plane. Fill the hole.

C) Get Bonus Game from AW and use Chamfer Vertex.

D) Find out any of the other fifty-fore possible ways to skin this particular cat.

/Sibben

[dylanmaxwell]

using polygons-
go to component mode
chose faces as your current component
select the faces you want to trash
hit DEL

using NURBS
component mode
choose isolines as your component
chose a horizontal isoparm/isoline on your surface
then go to Edit Nurbs>detach surfaces
you now have 2 surfaces.
Delete the top one.
-D