Extrude-->world Space: Manipulator Moves To Wierd Place?

[toddburch]

Hey all,

Maya 8/OS X user here. I recently transitioned from ver 7 and never had this problem before...can anyone help?

I'm extruding a set of edges (poly or sub-d) and click the manipulator dot to switch to world axis mode because I want to move the new edges along a world axis. When I do this, the manipulator centers on the OBJECT's original pivot point...in Maya 7 and previous versions (as far as I know), the manipulator would center on the SELECTION's center point when switching to world axis mode. (For example, the manipulator would center on the geometric center of the selected edges in world space mode).

This is really annoying, since most of the time when you want to rotate or scale a selection, you want to do it about the selection's center, not the object's.

Can anyone help me out? I assume it's just a setting buried somewhere but I just can't figure it out!!

Thanks for your help!

[toddburch]

OK, only way I can find to do this so far is to execute the extrude command, then immediately choose the move/rotate/scale tool instead of using the extrude manipulator. This will obviously keep you in world space mode with the manipulator centered on the component selection.

Anyone else know a solution?

[joojaa]

Hard to say ainthing usefull as ive never seen this happen anywhare. Anyway youy can changethe pivot value quite easily.

[yashu]

download this script and copy it over the old version of it from your Alias/maya8.0/scripts dir

http://www.alias.com/eng/support/maya/know...PolyExtrude.mel

[guefe]

Thank you very much. I already thought I get crazy...