that is a weird one... another option would be the insert edge loops tool just change your settings to "multiple edge loops" and however many edge loops you want and that should do it. No reason for that tool not to work, but there's an alternative at least
Thanks for testing. I'm just chalking it up to Maya's personality on a day to day basis. My coworker and I don't seriously believe Maya is sentient... but there's some day's it just seems to troll us harder than others. Oh Maya :D I bet you it will work tomorrow =P Same thing, just a different way of getting there. You can…
You can hold ctrl + right click, go to edge ring utilities, and select to edge ring and split, this will place the split right down the center. You can also use the multiple edges option in the add edge loop tool and it will split evenly. I couldn't replicate your problem, but I too believe Maya can be quite tempermental.
You can create a custom hotkey you know based on what ever procedure you want.The advantage is that this line of code won't change your tool prefs anymore. All you have to do is setup edge loop prefs to your liking then execute on an object and just record the line of code from the script editor (turn on echo all…