Maya: Select faces that are inside another mesh or volume

janoshx

I have very complex interior photogrammetry mesh that i am now optimizing. I am using Maya. Can i somehow create mesh boxes or volumes and select only the polygons that are inside the box? This would be really helpful way to select and separate objects from huge mesh. There would be many other use cases for such feature as well.

Yerus

Well, I don't know about a box selection thing (maybe there is a plugin?), but u can save your selections, so u don't need to redo them all the time. The path is 'Create > Sets > Quick Select Set'.

janoshx

save selection doesn't help me. I have seen this done in Houdini with some kind of voronoi volume selection thingy...

Yerus

Oh, but then we are talking about astronomically huge differences. Houdini is a modular software that is built from simulation and area recognition, everything in Houdini is modern and take a good lot of time to process due to it's power, there is no comparison between Maya and Houdini.