What's the best way to extrude pipes in maya?

malcolm

So I haven't done this in quite a while isn't there some way to extrude a nurbs circle along a spline and have the tessellation be higher in the corners and low in the straight parts? I've tried a combination of all the tessellation settings and can't figure it out.

Illusions

If you place more CVs at the corners of the spline/curve you use to extrude your surface, and less along the straight paths, the resulting extruded polygon will have more tessellation in the areas in which you placed more CVs.

malcolm

Care to do a screen grab of your preferred settings.