Length Control And Bones

[yurasha]

Hi All!
I have one question - is it possible to restrict a length of bone? I want Maya to choose itself a possible way for moving a joint from point A to point B using rotations only.
Now I use IKHandles. But if I have a 3 IKHandles from 1 parent joint to 3 child joints and translate one of them, others rotate too (due to rotation of parent joint).

[joojaa]

Not in the way you want it, since the joint has no legth! it only has a position, rotation and scale. There realy are no BONES in maya. Just joints, what would be the joint is just a locator tyope proxy object that draws itself beteween the paenent and chiild joints.

But this can be done nevertheless! im just not in position to test it right now.

[yurasha]

Ok! Thanx a lot, Joojaa! I`m waiting.....

BTW, I try expressions (like this)

float $len;
float $prev[];
float $le[];
$prev=joint -q -a -p joint3;
$le=joint -q -a -p joint4;
//print $le[1];
float $x;
float $y;
float $z;
$x=$le[0]-$prev[0];
$y=$le[1]-$prev[1];
$z=$le[2]-$prev[2];
$len=sqrt(($x*$x)+($y*$y)+($z*$z));
print $len;
joint4.Length=$len;

But I dont know how to lock in the $len to force Maya to calculate angels when I use a (let say) "translate to A" for a joint.