Maya bridge double edge

Popeye9 · Oct 2019

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 · Oct 2019

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

Popeye9 · Oct 2019

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

oglu · Oct 2019

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

Popeye9 · Oct 2019

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

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throttlekitty · Oct 2019

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.

Maya bridge double edge

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