Hinge tool being a tit

Moltar

Hi there. For some reason my Hinge form edge tool in 3dsmax does this


It was working fine throughout the project, rounding off perfectly until recently. Now it creates these weird elongated "rounded" caps when I hinge something. I can't find a solution and was hoping someone here might be able to help?

Thanks.

Eric Chadwick

You have it set to 12 segments. See the caddy at top left in your main viewport? Is that intended?

huffer

Maybe reset xforms? Have you scaled your object non-uniform?

Moltar

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

You have it set to 12 segments. See the caddy at top left in your main viewport? Is that intended?

Yes that is intended. But no matter how many segments I had, the shape is retained.

Moltar

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

You have it set to 12 segments. See the caddy at top left in your main viewport? Is that intended?

Tried reseting it with no new results. It hasn't been scaled (although I know this will fix the shape but it shouldn't be doing this at all)

Eric Chadwick

There has to be a non-uniform scale on your mesh. If reset xform isn't fixing it, try creating a Box, and attaching the mesh to it, then deleting the box.

Moltar

Eric Chadwick wrote: »

There has to be a non-uniform scale on your mesh. If reset xform isn't fixing it, try creating a Box, and attaching the mesh to it, then deleting the box.

Still no luck with that. I imported my whole scene into a new one and it seems to have solved the issue. I've still no clue as to why this happened. It done it with every shape I made except in a new scenes.

Thanks for your help though.

Eric Chadwick

If you upload a stripped-down Max file we could take a look.