Maya bridge double edge

Popeye9

I have modeled in 3ds max for 10 years and went to Maya 4 years ago and have not minded it except for when I bridge edges. When I do this it produces double edges. This really isnt an issue for a rendermesh but if you are creating a bake mesh for enlighten or baking normals then it becomes a real problem. 

Is there a setting for bridge that will eliminate this or should I not use bridge and just extrude and vert weld.

thanks 
Seth

oglu

Are you using an old maya version? In 2019 this should not hapoen. 

Popeye9

Thanks, I am using 2018. I will have to upgrade and see if this is still an issue. 

oglu

Could you post an example this should not happen in 2018.

Popeye9

Here is an example of the issue I am bridging each opening from left to right and at the end I am left with double edges between top and and bottom. I could live with this if it gave double verts but it doesnt. The only way to fix is reopen polys and extrude weld or multi-cut across bad edge weld the 2 verts from multi-cut and then Cntrl-delete the multi-cut edge. Either step can be time consuming 

 

throttlekitty

yeah, we don't have a good way to avoid this unfortunately. In this particular case, you can select one of the vertices on the doubled edge, unweld and re-weld, and in others to use multi-cut or connect as you mentioned.