[ Maya ] Select using constraints, for edge length NOT WORKING

rares

Hey there guys !

I have a very poly heavy scene and i'm trying to  select all the small edges and collapse them.

This is the line of code i'm using to select the small edges : 

 polySelectConstraint -m 3 -t 0x8000 -l on -lb 0.1 0.13;  

Although all the edges i'm trying to select  are around 0.12 units maya won't allow me to select any edges.
I've played alot with the lengthBounds min and max tolerances but still no luck , at best if the values are big enough it will let me select all the edges in the scene.
I've tried running the code in a scene with a cube that has 0.12 units edge length, it still won't let me select anything


Can anybody help with this !? 

throttlekitty

Since you're after all small edges, set the lower boundary smaller for sure, like 0.0001. With 0.1 to 0.13 set, it will only select edges within that range and nothing smaller.

However, since it wouldn't do 0.12, I'd look in to freezing transforms. I checked just now and Maya seems to obey local transforms on my test cube. But if I have a large cube parented to a group and scale the group down, the selection constraint doesn't work.

oglu

Have you tried merge verticies?
There is also a trashold.. 

rares

Merge wouldn't work well sadly, there are shells that are snapped to eachtoher ( ike ornaments), floating geo etc. stuff that would get merged and i wouldn't want merged

oglu

maybe with a script doing it one boy one polyshell..?

rares

hmz good point that could work, thx !