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Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:21:57 GMT

Hello,

I have been having issues with the soft select tool where when I select one vertex it select multiple random edges. I have solved this problem in the past by exporting as an OBJ and bring that back into Maya. However, this solution does not seem to work. I also tried deleting history, and deleting unknown nodes. Does anyone have an alternative solution? Thanks!

Re: Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

mspeer — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 04:47:32 GMT

You may check for some corrupt edges in your mesh, Mesh Component Display -> Display Borders.

From another thread:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling/select-one-edge-and-another-one-moves/m-p/6632756

If you can't find the error please upload a scene-file.

Re: Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 20:11:09 GMT

Thank you for replying. I'm afraid that method didn't do me any good. I'll keep trying, but here is the file I've been working with.

Re: Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

mspeer — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:10:31 GMT

Hi!

The model works here without any Problem (Maya 2016 EXT2 and Maya 2017). Please make sure you have the latest Maya update installed. If there is a problem related to your mesh in combination with your Maya Version, split your model into different parts, with Edit Mesh -> Extract, to find out where the problem is.

Re: Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

mspeer — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 21:35:58 GMT

Hi!

By setting the value for the border size to an exaggerated value of 100 (only 8 in screenshot) i was able to find 2 corrupt edges. Delete the faces around these edges and then re-build them using the Append to Polygon Tool.

Re: Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 23:40:45 GMT

Hello!

Thank you for your help and taking time on this. I am afraid I don't understand what you mean by border size. Where are you viewing that setting? Is it the same as "Border Width"?

Also, when I get rid of and fixed those faces that surround the problem area demonstrated in your picture, it didn't seem to fix my problem. When in soft select mode I am still seeing a strange selection pattern even with only one vertex selected.

Re: Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

Anonymous — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 00:24:37 GMT

I managed to find the corrupt edge. That seemed to fix the problem! 🙂 Thanks so much for your help. But I am still confused how you managed to locate the corrupt edge.

Re: Soft Select Tool Problem: Maya 2016

mspeer — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 04:50:26 GMT

Hi!

Glad you found the corrupt edge!

You are right i was using Border Width (not size).