[HELP]. Way to cleanup curves in Maya?

helmdubo

Hi everyone,
How to automaticle reduce points of curve without silhouette? 
Manual example:
I have/ want
  

Do you have ideas?

serg2712

select the curve you want to simplify and then go to "Curves">"Rebuild", click on the Options-Box to set up the behavior of the "Rebuild" tool ... play around with the settings and you should get the desired result :-)

Rebuild Curve Options Help:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-Modeling/files/GUID-E8E831D1-A985-4FFD-AFA8-EA6AD7483FE6-htm.html

Reduce Complexity of a curve:
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/ENU/Maya-Modeling/files/GUID-24DF5B14-6A5A-434E-9693-2318400BC32B-htm.html

I hope I could help :-)

Niknesh

I'd separate the curves, so that you have straight curve on the side and curvy on top/bot, and then use the Rebuild tool. Otherwise you might get undesired results.

For the straight curve, Rebuild Type - Uniform, Number of spans 1 and Degree Linear.

If you want, for the curvy curve same thing can be applied, just use Cubic Degree.

If you're looking to build a polygonal surface out of that, it's easier to use the Loft command (or Birail) with these settings. It keeps your history in a way that you can manipulate the selected curve as much as you would want. In your case I would Loft the top and bottom curve or just duplicate one and select them both and do the command then.

helmdubo

Niknesh said:

I'd separate the curves, so that you have straight curve on the side and curvy on top/bot, and then use the Rebuild tool. Otherwise you might get undesired results.

For the straight curve, Rebuild Type - Uniform, Number of spans 1 and Degree Linear.

If you want, for the curvy curve same thing can be applied, just use Cubic Degree.

If you're looking to build a polygonal surface out of that, it's easier to use the Loft command (or Birail) with these settings. It keeps your history in a way that you can manipulate the selected curve as much as you would want. In your case I would Loft the top and bottom curve or just duplicate one and select them both and do the command then.

thanks guys, i know about rebuild option, but is not working right.  I need just script that determining  3 points lie on the same line. If yes -  then delete middle point.