Rectangular Tubes

[techmage]

I am very new to Maya. I have tried many times to create rectangular tubes but never managed to get anything that worked well. In 3DS Max it is very easy to create a rounded rectangle that can be extruded. All parameter stay modifiable after the fact. So far I cannot even create a rectangle and fillet the corners in Maya. The last corner won't close. Any help would be appreciated.

[joojaa]

try reversing one of the last sides (not both). Offcours eif you built the other way around youd have no problems!

[zqw]

To create a rounded square/rectangle:

Go to top view.
Create a nurbs circle with 8 sections and radius 1.
Right-click the circle, select Control Vertex.
Using grid snapping, pull out the corner CVs so all CVs are in a 2 by 2 square.

Select the circle normally (right click->select) and scale to a rectangle, etc.

Then extrude.

[techmage]

While your instructions produced a beautiful rounded rectangle, that was not quite what I wanted. What I wanted is a rectangle with filleted corners--preferably to exact measurements.

[joojaa]

Yes yes you are missing one very fundamental concept here. Dont atach the curves just keep them separated its no bother they will keep closed. And you can edit them later.

if you need some wierd stuff on it you can combine them too... But this is not desirable in most cases. BUt do the combination once you have made all the rounds to separate surfs.

yeah i know its confusing but you are no longer in the real world!