Extruding and inputting numbers in thickness

[Anonymous]

I am trying to extrude with accurate, specific numbers but having some trouble. When I extrude and click on the "Thickness" tap to input number, say 0.05, nothing happens. Only way to move what I have extruded is to hold on to the arrow and move or click on Thickness and move from there, but it jumps straight from 0 to 1 which is too much.

I have seen many Maya tutorials where they put in specific numbers in the tab and it works for them, but is not working for me. Any idea why that is?

I have tried both 0.5 and 0,5 and neither works, by the way.

[pshwayka]

After you activate the extrude tool, double-click on its icon (to the left of your viewport) to open its settings. Make sure "Discrete Move" is not checked...then try your extrude again.

[Anonymous]

My problem is not extruding itself, its that I can't write the numbers in the thickness tap that pops up when I do extrude, as well as offset and thickness.

Also, Discrete Move was not checked already and I still jumped from 0 up to 1 when I tried to manually move.

[pshwayka]

Make sure you don't have the "lock current selection" option enabled. (That would prevent you from entering numbers in those fields.)

It is toggled using the icon that looks like a padlock at the top of your screen just to the left of the snapping icons. Also make sure you don't have snapping enabled.

[Anonymous]

Sorry, but could you tell me more of where it is? 

I am not seeing any padlock anywhere. Also, what is snappin icons and where can I check if the snapping is disabled?

[pshwayka]

See below. You may have to click on the thin vertical lines in your toolbar to expose these icons. The ones inside the red box are the snapping icons.

[Anonymous]

No, there was nothing wrong there. "Lock Current session" was not on as well as that snapping.

I just can't seem to be able to write a number in the tab when I extrude, right there in the thickness. I write any number and hit enter, and nothing happens.

[pshwayka]

Does it happen in every scene? If you start a new scene and create a polygon cube and try to extrude a face, do you have the same problem?

If so, you may want to try resetting Maya using these instructions.

[_sebastian_f]

the more important question in this case is: where are you from?
there was a region/language problem with the IVE´s. so with a non u.s. region and not english language setting (one or both) it will not work. either change your windows settings or use the channel box or attribute editor instead.

[Anonymous]

well, I am in Norway right now...

I could have sworn this was working just fine yesterday when I was doing a tutorial, but now its no longer working. Its driving me nuts, honestly.

I tried that reset Maya thingie and it did not work at all, btw.

I tried switching language via windows but THAT also did not work.

So how exactly can I use the channel box or attribute editor for what I am trying to do here?

[pshwayka]

Look on the right side of the screen capture you posted...try entering a number in that thickness field. (That's the attribute editor.)

[Anonymous]

Okay, that did work. Thanks man.

I do wish it did work though like in the videos I been watching, but to hell with it. At this point I take this as a victory XD

[_sebastian_f]

yes like pshwayka said. and if it´s not just the language (i don´t remember if it had to be both) also change your region. what i did to make it work: location: us, language english (us) and 3.5 separation with "," gives 35, with "." gives 3.5.

since you are student dl maya 2016 where it was fixed.