Problems with round tool

[reinhard]

hi-

i'm probably being a complete idiot but i cant get the nurbs round tool to work at all, this is how im using it:

first i create a nurbs cylinder and select the top isopram and surface > planar which caps the surface next i select the nurbs round tool and use the picker to select both the cap and cylinder surface at which point im given a yellow arch tool which i can manipulate using the mouse but to no avail.

any suggestions?

thanks in advance,

dom

[joojaa]

Reah what the help line tells you!

it should read

Round Tool: Select another pair of surface edges that meet, or pres ENTER to compute round operation.

And your next question will be about tesselation i presume!

[reinhard]

ive tried doing that...

i did a screen record of the problem.

here

thanks again

dom

[joojaa]

well yeah im not supprised it fails... You cant make rounds that are bigger then the shells they affect, make smaller rounds. Se maya isnt a solid (im refeering to the mathematical modell where objects are solid with interiors filled) modeller, like most eingeneering apps. But rather a surface modeller, As such a surface modeller does not have knowlege of the shell off a surface but rather maya only knows of the 3 surfaces youve selected So it cant make a round that goes beyond theese surfaces. Because thet would fail to produce a result, because all the originals would get deleted.

Actualy the only apps i would asume are capable of a round like that are proe and catia, of wich even catia starts to fail much sooner than proe.

[fomstudios]

Go to Edit NURBS > Round Tool > Option Box, and decrease the Radius size, as the default size of 1.0 is too large for a default sized cylinder. Marquee select the adjoining edges of the cylinder and planar surface with the Round Tool and press Enter. However, instead of using a planar surface to cap the cylinder, why not just create a cylinder with caps? Go to Create > NURBS Primitives > Cylinder > Option Box and check Caps for Bottom, Top or Both. Also, check Extra Transform on Caps, which will allow the caps to be manipulated as separate objects. Use the Round Tool as described above. Another way to create a beveled edge is to select the adjoining isoparms of the cylinder body and cap, and go to Edit NURBS >Attach Surfaces > Option Box, check Blend and Insert Knot and attach. This method will keep the cylinder as one single object. Adjust the size of the bevel with the Parameter setting of the attachSurface in the Channel Box.

Cheers,
Eric