Unfold UVs not working properly in Maya 2017?

[ahon.sanzaru]

I recently switched over to Maya 2017 and was surprised by the new layout of the UV Editor.  After using it for two weeks, I'm not a big fan of it because the buttons are not as easily accessible as they were in 2016.  Furthermore, the icons changed, making them even more difficult to find!

In addition, I've noticed the the Legacy Unfold UV options aren't working like they used to.  The UVs end up being stretched and distorted, even after resetting all of the options.  As a test, I went back to Maya 2016 SP 6, and did a side-by-side comparison, using the exact same settings.  Maya 2016 SP 6 unfolded my UVs as expected, while Maya 2017 unfold the UVs in unpredictable ways.

Has anyone else ran into this same issue?  Very frustrating.  I'm switching back to Maya 2016 SP 6 for now until this gets resolved.

[cornelh]

@ahon.sanzaru

What version of Maya 2017 are you on?  Update 3 has totally new UV tool kit that simplifies UV's even better!  Please check this out:  New UV and modeling tools  

The algorithm of UV's changed, and should be better in Update 3.  Also please delete your construction history on models from older versions, as this might cause UV's using older algorithms to change their layout.  Please let me know what you mean by expected and un-expected UVs?  give Update 3 a try and let me know if that is better?  If not, I guess there is no harm in going back to Maya 2016 SP6.  This is not something that is broken or needs fixing, it was a change, and so far we have not heard others complaining about it.  Seems we are getting some great positive feed back from the new update 3.  I look forward to your reply, thank you.

[Anonymous]

I am also having problems with Maya 2017 update 3 and the Unfold3D tool not working. It simply does nothing. Reverting to Legacy does an unfold, and then trying to go back to Unfold3D seem to force it to at least attempt an unfold, but it just distorts the uvs horribly and is unusable. This is on a simple piece of geometry with no construction history.

[Anonymous]

Guess who didn't freeze his transforms first? My bad.

[artofillusionist]

Earlier I loved the Maya perfect Unfold tool. For me in Maya 2017 the new Unfold tool total useless and Maya crash. Check it out! You can compare Maya 2016 vs 2017

[Anonymous]

Same here, MayaLT unfold does nothing like it is supposed to. I have to go back to Maya 2016 to make it work and then back into 2017.