Extrude rotation

[kubabuk]

When I rotate an object and than want to extrude but the extrude tool always points in the world space directions. How can I make the extrude tool pointing in the local object's directions -than proportional scaling of the face (via extrude tool) would be much easier in this situation.

Pivot point is aligned with the object

Grouping under the parent and than rotating the object - didn't suceeded.

do you have any idea?

maybe it's not possible in maya?

[joojaa]

if you check the profile normal then it does just that! but this only works fine for flats.

Anyway you can use a second straight curve and manipulete that when extruding for local spaece thansfor mike this!

[failure]

I'm not sure I understood the problem correctly. Are you talking about extruding polygonal faces or Surfaces->Extrude.
For poly extrude: see that small light blue circle in the extrude manipulator. Clicking it toggles local/global manipulator mode.

[kubabuk]

As I see, I haven't explained my problem precisely, so here is a link to the site I put some screen snapshots and expalin briefly the problem:

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hope it works...
thanks for reply

[kubabuk]

I've partially solved the problem. I've changed Local Direction X (of the polyFace Extrude tool) attribute from 1 to 0, and switched Local Direction Y attribute from 0 to 1. Now the axes are poining the way I wanted but...

when I scale the face on X axis it's still deforming rather than scaling.

see my website for images...

[failure]

I think you have some misconceptions about nature of polygonal geometry. You expect of Maya to know "tangents" of polygonal faces. In case of perfect rectangular faces one could easily establish u and v tangent space. But what happens when you move a vertex? Te face is no more planar and edges no more paralell; u-v-normal coordinate space cannot be defined ( at least in not in linear 3d space ).
This is the reason Maya doen't know or care about polygonal "tangents".
Geometry that knows it's u and v tangents is nurbs. Nurbs surfaces have exact mathematical representation. Polys, on the other side, are just a bunch of random data.
Anyway, the bottom line is that you'll have to adjust it by hand.