Quick question Maya - Rotate Tool?

roo86

I need to rotate along an edge, in the edge's local angle.
I'm not asking how to reposition a pivot location.

I want to get the Rotation pivot angle Set to Edge, just like in Scale and Transform options.

See my screenshots.
Take note of the Z-axis direction in each image, I successfully Set to Edge for Transform and Scale, but Rotate is still fucked up.
Also Rotate Tool Settings has no "Set to Edge" either and I want to know why and how to get that.

Thanks gurus!
Maya 2014

http://imgur.com/Vd6O01z


If you can link me to solutions that'll be great as well as I've spent the last 3 hours googling and polycounting to no avail for my precise answer.

DireWolf

I may be wrong but it's not as simple as you think due to Maya's internal rotation system thing. You'll need to rotate the object's axis to match the edge's orientation. Only viable way I can think of is by using script. Get the angle between 2 vertices, convert it to vector and transfer that to the object's axis rotation. This script would need to be run every time you pick a new edge.

roo86

thanks hoping for a more useful response asap!
does 3dsMax or Cinema4D have Rotate along Edge out-of-the-box to answer my question above? anyone know?

DireWolf

I think Modo may be able to do this with their work planes.

Tzur_H

Hold D and click on the edge you want, now hold D and Ctrl and click once on the face, holding D and Ctrl and clicking on a component changes the aim Z direction to that component.

* it might be a modeling toolkit feature, I'm not sure.

I hope this is what you're trying to achieve.

roo86

bump

throttlekitty

I have these options in 2015. but I don't know the name for that tool options script to feed you the bits you need.

Alternatively, you can get to the same function via marking menus for each tool, holding down w,e,r +lmb >Axis.

heyeye

http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/script/gt-3-point-set-rotation

Here's what you want. Pretty clever script, just run it, select the 3 verts that align to the rotation you want, and it'll set it. It's a little tedious but it gets you there.