Creating a 'handle' pipe.

bacurrah — Sat, 18 Feb 2017 04:20:10 GMT

I am new to Maya, so I'm still learning the basics. I was wonder how one might make a straight, horizontal pipe, but the ends curved vertically?

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Re: Creating a 'handle' pipe.

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 18:29:26 GMT

Hey,

if I have understood you correctly you want something like this:

Maybe there is another method using a curve creation method but I wouldn't know how to exactly create those curves. So this is what I did:

Create a parallelogram via the polygon creation tool.
extrude its face
delete the back, front, and bottom face
bevel the 2 edge edges and really crank up the divisions for a smoother curve (or you need to rebuild the curve)
select the edges which are forming the wanted curve
convert the edges to a curve via Modify -> Convert -> Polygon Edges to Curve and open the settings!
Settings: Form = best guess and Degree = 1 Linear (that's why we needed a good resolution of the curve)
with the selected curve open bonus tools -> modeling -> curve to tube mesh
play around with the settings until you are happy
Done!

Edit: I would suggest setting the length divisions within the curve to tube mesh settings to 1 otherwise you have unequally spaced out edge loops within your tube.

Here are pictures of some stages:

Regards,

LifeArtist

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