Maya measuring tool

Message 2 of Also what are your grid settings? They may need to be changed to reflect the right value. Let me know if anything changes! Kudos are greatly appreciated.

Everyone likes a thumbs up! Message 3 of My grid settings are default. I vert snapped the locators to the ends of the object. Message 4 of Message 5 of Message 6 of Message 7 of Message 8 of I have Snap to Points enabled.

This is what will have Maya snap to vertices so I can go from one vertex to another. Message 9 of Message 10 of Message 11 of I'll upload the video in my next post as well just so you can see how I set everything up! Message 12 of Message 13 of Message 14 of This video is also a great breakdown on how this works and why:. Message 15 of Message 16 of Computers are inaccurate.

Everything that's not an integer value cannot be calculated correct. Message 17 of Did this not work for you? The Channel Box can also be used to manipulate vertices in an exact manner, but it works differently. To edit vertices this way click on CVs click to show of the Channel Box. You can do a subtraction as well as an addition, of course. The channel box also supports multiplication and divisions using a special notation.

Multi-selection is also supported. The Component Editor has been present in Maya for a very long time. Changing multiple vertices data at the same time is supported, just select the rows you want to change and type the value in the last row, all rows will be updated accordingly.

This can be achieved using a primitive as a reference. The Snap Step of the Multi-cut tool can be changed in its tool settings by double-clicking the tool icon. Modeling with Precision in Maya With the new Maya utility, you can select two vertices and press the button to add a distance tool between your selections.

The selections can be in the same object or two different objects. The distance tool will follow the vertices as you move the components or the objects around in the scene. The Measuring utility also comes with the ability to convert units of measurement. Easily exchange imperial to metric and back again.