Yea, I actually needed something like this script last week. I just never thought of searching for a script until this thread lol. Maya should have a lot of these tools but I guess the generous community giving away these scripts for free makes up for it.
Dude thank you so much ! .. Thats exactly what i mean ! .. I just dont know, why autodesk doesnt integrate this usefull tool into Maya.. why only Max has it ? .. Maybe i start a Usefull Scripts for Maya thread.. There tons for Max, but i couldnt find any for Maya ;) Thaaanks ! Also the owner of this script has made this :…
http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/modeling/poly-tools/c/select-identical-components try this script I think it's what you are after EDIT: fixed link in case, thanks for pointing that out
There's no select similar for Maya. This might not be a component thing, but check this script out: http://www.creativecrash.com/maya/downloads/scripts-plugins/polygon/c/he_selectsimilar It selects the similar objects around the scene. Although you dont have select similar components in Maya you have a BUNCH of ways of…
You can still use the script TeZzy sent, but to explain what you are asking if you go to the Select -> Select Using Constraints, there's an "area" tab, play around with that.
Thanks for your replies, the script is very usefull thanks, but not exactly what iam looking for ! hmm no, i just tried to recreate this Plane. (thanks to scotthomer ) I only know grow selection and so on.. but is there a quick way to select all faces in between - like the image said ?