topic Re: Smart Extrude, Maya freezes when i do this modeling sequence in Maya Forum

Smart Extrude, Maya freezes when i do this modeling sequence

tlee4714 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:36:14 GMT

Hi, using Maya2026 on win10/11.

My goal is to model the demi sphere with a cylindrical hole in the middle (see video, model on the left).

Whenever i do this sequence maya freezes and i must restart it to move forward.

Create sphere.

Go to face mode and delete the bottom half.

Go to edge mode, select the bottom edge loop and bridge hole.

At this point i have water tight demi-sphere.

Then select the top middle vertex at the top of the demi-sphere.

Expand selection twice, convert the selected vertices to faces.

Call the "Smart Extrude" tool and move the faces down in the hope to create the intended geometry.

Not only doesn't it work, but Maya freezes.

Note: since then i learn a completely different way to model this successfully, but that's not the point.

tlee4714 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 21:37:44 GMT

I forgot to mention.

The post above is intended to be a bug report. I didn't find a bug report page, so hopefully this forum is read by Maya developers.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Christoph_Schaedl — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:11:38 GMT

can confirm, maya does crash if you try that.

mcginnc — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:36:57 GMT

Hey - yes it's with Autodesk. MAYA-141203. Thanks for letting us know.