https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/hard-soft-edges-and-extrusion/m-p/5424694#M25841 <P>Hi there! I just tried to model a simple Box thats open...create cube, make inner extrusion, and already before rendering its visible that there`s something wrong. When rendered it looks like a f...ing mess. Fortunately I came around with the really great "facer"- script (freeware), highlighted all edges and executed hard- or soft edges. After it was a clean, clear shape. But why is this? I don`t remember, having had this issues before. If I knew why this happens I maybe could understand better the way Maya is getting around with this job! Could somebody tell me?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>THX in advance!</P> Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:33:54 GMT Anonymous 2014-11-26T01:33:54Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/hard-soft-edges-and-extrusion/m-p/5424694#M25841 <P>Hi there! I just tried to model a simple Box thats open...create cube, make inner extrusion, and already before rendering its visible that there`s something wrong. When rendered it looks like a f...ing mess. Fortunately I came around with the really great "facer"- script (freeware), highlighted all edges and executed hard- or soft edges. After it was a clean, clear shape. But why is this? I don`t remember, having had this issues before. If I knew why this happens I maybe could understand better the way Maya is getting around with this job! Could somebody tell me?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>THX in advance!</P> Wed, 26 Nov 2014 01:33:54 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/hard-soft-edges-and-extrusion/m-p/5424694#M25841 Anonymous 2014-11-26T01:33:54Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/hard-soft-edges-and-extrusion/m-p/5425486#M25842 Somehow when you extruded the normals got soften all the way and lost the hard edges... All you needed to do was to reset the normals to hard edges........Normals&gt;hard edges.... Learning about normals is easy and essential Wed, 26 Nov 2014 16:27:46 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-modeling-forum/hard-soft-edges-and-extrusion/m-p/5425486#M25842 damaggio 2014-11-26T16:27:46Z