Hi I am a Blender modeler and I am trying to learn Maya. I could be an idiot, but there are 2 things in Maya I have not been able to figure out how to do and its driving me crazy. Question 1) How to extrude a verticie from a polygon such that only the verticie and edge are created. In blender its simply done by clicking on…
I'm with @Ghogiel , what you're proposing to do is *illegal* in Maya - Blender tends to sit in it's own non industry conformable universe =) Move over to Max, at least you'll sleep better.
You can't have floating edges without Faces in basically any 3D app other then Blender. If you do see a floating edge in Maya (or Max/Modo, etc.) it means somethings gone wrong. The closest you can get is creating a spline/curve.
The first thing I doubt you can do in Maya considering how hard it stops you from being able to even delete a vert or edge on it's own. (you can have floating verts and cap that into a polygon in Max but imo it's not something that useful I'd miss if I couldn't, so I can sort of understand being weirded out you can't have…