Face Snapping Ploygons In Maya

Maya
1

Hey Guys

I am trying to get a command on face snapping but still unable to find out the same can any one pls help me out in telling the same as in my last mail too i have asked for the same question but still have'nt got anything on the same as the thing which i want is to snap a point on the face surface which is still not there in maya so can anyone pls tell me any thing regarding the same sorry if i am troubling anyone of u by asking the same thing again & again but i really wanna know the same command as early as posssible.

rgds

sid's

2

What do you mean its not there? Descibe how you want to snap to thet said face. I can think of 15 differend things you would eant to snap to a face.

Category I You want to snap components:

1) you want to draw sonmething on a face. -> make the object live!
2) You want to move a point to the face, exactlly same solution applys as above.
3) You want to move a point thats part of the face to a new location ON the face ok now this si trickyer you can do it but you dont actualy want to do this in mel because quite frankly youd NEVER ever use it again after youve made it because it would be such a hit on your workflow. However what you want is to use a live copy of said object.

OR snap aliong 2 edges wich is allmost as fast as switching to tool and back

3) you want to snap to face centers
5) You want 1 but you dont want to be restricted to the live object. -> use live object anyway
6) you need parametric snappingmagnets -> split
7) you just want to make a tool for a tools sake.
8) You need to restrict yourself to one face. -> copy said face and make it live
9) you want yoruself constrained on the faces plane but want to be able to move ebyond it. -> make a contruction plane on the tri and make it live
10) Use constrains

Category II:

you want to snap objeccts.

1) make live
2) use the snapping tools in the edit menu
3) use object consterain
4) you want to make a tool

3

hi joojaa

thanks as this time it really worked & solved the problem so really thanks to u for helping me out i m really greatful to u for ur help.

with warm regards

sid's

4

hi joojaa

i was trying to execute a new script but am not able to get the wanted answer out of it so pls kindly tell me where i have gone wrong the script is as follows:

window MyWindow;

{
proc att()
{
string $myatt =att($my);
}
string $my[] = ls -sl;

int $mysize = size($my);
string $myatt = att($my);
string $my = ($my);
if ($mysize > 1)
error ("please select only one obj");
if ($mysize < 1)
error ("please select an obj");

string $myattX = $my[0] + ".sx";
string $myattY = $my[0] + ".sy";
string $myattZ = $my[0] + ".sz";
print $myatt;

window myWin1;
columnLayout;
attrFieldSliderGrp -min 0 -max 10 -at $myattX;
attrFieldSliderGrp -min 0 -max 10 -at $myattY;
attrFieldSliderGrp -min 0 -max 10 -at $myattZ;
showWindow myWin1;

}

regards
sid's

5

howabout

QUOTE
{
string $my[] = ls -sl -tr -tl 1;

//using tail because its more mayalike
//restricting myself to transforms is sane here because otherwise it could break.

if (size($my) == 0)
error ("please select an obj");

window myWin1;
columnLayout;
attrFieldSliderGrp -min 0 -max 10 -at ($my[0] + ".sx");
attrFieldSliderGrp -min 0 -max 10 -at ($my[0] + ".sy");
attrFieldSliderGrp -min 0 -max 10 -at ($my[0] + ".sz");
showWindow myWin1;
}