Why can not find the u3dUnfold command in the documentation?

g2m.agent — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:08:18 GMT

and these command:

DoCreatePointOnPolyConstraintArgList

PerformPolyProjectionArgList

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Re: Why can not find the u3dUnfold command in the documentation?

RFlannery1 — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 21:26:41 GMT

Most likely you can't find documentation for the "u3dUnfold" command because it is from a plug-in. Specifically, it is from the "Unfold3D.mll" plugin. In most cases, commands defined in plug-ins won't be found in the Maya documentation. Even if the plug-in comes built-in to Maya. You can get a bit of information by executing the following MEL command "help u3dUnfold;". The results are as follows:

help u3dUnfold;
// Result: 

Synopsis: u3dUnfold [flags] [String...]
Flags:
  -bi -borderintersection  on|off
 -ite -iterations          Int
  -ms -mapsize             Int
   -p -pack                on|off
  -rs -roomspace           Int
  -tf -triangleflip        on|off


Command Type: Command
 //

This at least says what flags are available. But there are no details about what each flag does.

The other two things you mentioned, "DoCreatePointOnPolyConstraintArgList" and "PerformPolyProjectionArgList", don't have documentation because they are not commands. They are MEL scripts. You can find this by running the "whatIs" command:

whatIs DoCreatePointOnPolyConstraintArgList;
// Result: Script found in: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2017/scripts/others/doCreatePointOnPolyConstraintArgList.mel //

and:

whatIs PerformPolyProjectionArgList;
// Result: Script found in: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2017/scripts/others/performPolyProjectionArgList.mel //

You can open the MEL files to read what each function is doing. But do not edit the files! That can break things!

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