View Full Version : Weird edge extruding problem
AyVie
08-24-2009, 02:34 AM
Hey I was wondering if anyone knows how to fix this. I'm getting this weird problem where whenever I extrude an edge, 5 faces appear from where I just extruded from. I tried to reset the settings, but that didn't do anything. Anyone know what's wrong?
Hans Schrijvers
08-24-2009, 02:47 AM
I am not sure I can really figure out what is going on in the picture. What edge did you extrude and what 5 faces are you talking about?
You only had one edge selected when you extruded, right?
AyVie
08-24-2009, 03:14 AM
Here is a clearer picture of what's going on. The picture on the left is before I extrude out of the edge on the side. After I extrude, 5 faces are created from where I extruded from.
rburke
08-24-2009, 07:12 AM
very strange
just doulbe check that keep faces together is checked, im sure it is, and second go into the edge extrude options and be positive it is set to 1 under create multiple edges or whatever, it could be that even if you reset it it was somehow set to default to 5 edges, that can happen as you can set the default tool settings to anything you want, and it may just be that you clicked that button or something. and yeah that would be super super annoying.
Also check the options for extrude faces and extrude verts maybe they are somehow conflicting as well.
its odd too because those edges are only at the point of origin, but they dont extend out into the extrusion so maybe it is the keep faces together thing, very strange, quick fix is to select all verts and go merge verts that should remove all edges that are sharing space.
And are you on 2009, or what, ive never seen this problem myself, but it looks like a non default tool setting. lemme know.
Looks to me like a non connected vert issue. If your scale is REALLY crazy off, your merge vert won't work unless you amp up the merge distance by a lot.
If all else fails, delete the maya prefs and start over. Very weird.
josephine.auda
08-26-2009, 10:41 PM
Yo! you got the extra faces. You have click on extrude twice. You know, the school lab can be that retarted for half of time. So, what you can do is that to delete those unecessary faces and merge the vertex again. Also, delete the history can be helpful.