Poly bevel trouble

[claes]

I'm a 3ds max user who is currently learning maya. One thing I'm having a hard time understanding why, is the way bevel works... See this image:

To the left is the original. To the right is what I want, and what I get in max when I chamfer. In the middle is what maya gives me.

Is there any "chamfer edge" tool available for maya?

[claes]

I forgot to say... It can't be too hard scripting something in mel to do this, right? However, I know nothing about the language so I'm not going there yet.

[campbell]

something funky going on there, if you select just those ridge edges and bevel em w single segment and fiddle the offset, you'll get your RH result.

C.

[claes]

Nope. Doesn't matter what I do with the parameters. As soon as the edges I select are not in a perfectly straight line I get this result. Have you tried a similar shape and got another result?

[thematt]

that's a known bug with the bevel..sorry but so far that's the way it is.
I always had that and a lot of others had complained about it...

good luck

cheers

[claes]

Ah, ok. Is AW aware of this? Has anyone got a reply on what they'll do about it?

If people are upset about it, like I am, it would be reasonable for AW to release a chamfer edge tool, just like the others they've released separately.