Border extrusion local pivot "bug"

SPYFF

Hy everybody!

I modeling in 3ds Max and have a problem with border extrusion. So, if i select any border, and switch Local ref. coord. system, the moving is works fine, but if i hold Shift, the pivot is turn to wrong, and the extrusion is not good.
The first picture is show the local pivot good direction, but the second is show the extrusion result. Thanks any help!

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poopipe

what I believe happens is that the orientation of the loop changes as soon as it extruded

the behaviour of local space pivot on subobject selections has changed since max9 so can understand the idea that it's a bug - it annoyed hell out of me at that time.

if you want a straight out extrusion, your best bet is to cap the hole and extrude the new face

Steppenwolf

Yea this behaviour is annoying. I don't know why it does that. It should work fine when you use the extrude dialogue tho.

SPYFF

Ok, thanks. I think this bug is only was my models, but not... I hope somebody find any fix for this

Steppenwolf

As i said it should work fine if you click here instead of shift-dragging:

SPYFF

Ok, i totally understand what you say in your previous comment, but when i apply the firs extrusion with (+) button, the second extruson is not work correctly (push the edges like Scale-tool). But thank you anyway!

Steppenwolf

I think i found a way to get the shift drag extrusion to work. In the "reference coordinate system" pull down menu select "pick" and then pick the mesh that you are working on.

Give it a test and tell me if it works for you.

SPYFF

Awww, works fine, thank you very much! So, you save my day! (But if somebody use reset Xfrom modifier or something, firt cap the border and detach as separated object - if want work on it later).

Steppenwolf

You can also make another object (just a simple cube) rotate that to the surface that you want to extrude and pick that one as the reference for the coordinate system.