Harden edge on smooth mesh in Maya

DigitalMechanik · Aug 2016

Hi, is their a way to get a hard edge after smoothing a model (smooth mesh preview)? The "preserve hard eges" checkbox seems to do nothing. And I don't mean closer edge loops but a real hard edge.
Thanks in advance.

RN · Aug 2016

It's the Crease tool:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2016/ENU/?guid=GUID-DEB060F9-A4B1-4F73-8B4D-B18A13D0E54B

DigitalMechanik · Aug 2016

Thanks for the reply, the edges I get with creasing are not hard, the normals are still averaged.

fade1 · Aug 2016

You have to go to the Attribute Editor, Go to the Shape Node of your Mesh and open the Smooth Mesh Tab. If you use Maya Catmull-Clark as Subdiv Method, there is a Option to preserve Hard edges. Maybe that helps.

DigitalMechanik · Aug 2016

That is the Problem, it doesn't

fade1 · Aug 2016

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5021068/uploads/editor/92/08c53xu3jcqv.jpg

should work...

DigitalMechanik · Aug 2016

Sorry for beeing stupid. I thought I used Maya Catmull-Clarc. Thank you very much for your time!

Harden edge on smooth mesh in Maya

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