Help with converting edges to curves

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, I have what I think may be a simple question, but for the life of me I can't figure out what to do about it.  I have the following mesh (picture attached), and I want to create a smooth curve along the selected edges (highlighted in red).

  My first thought was to select the edges I needed curved and then do Modify/Convert/Polygon Edges to Curve.  However, upon using this, while I can see the smooth curve Maya created, it did NOT replace my low poly curve and therefore the smoothed curve is just floating above my old one.  I have since tried other methods, but none have come as close to working as "Polygon Edges to Curve."  Am I doing something wrong, or is just impossible to create a smooth curve from a selection of edges? 😕

Any help would be VERY much appreciated!

- John

[damaggio]

Yes your step was correct it creates a curve out of your selected edges and its gonna be floating so you can build from it, you can smooth the curve if needed or you can smooth the surface ...therefore those selected "edges"  but a few edges cannot exist just anywhere in the viewport, that's not geometry.

[Anonymous]

So is there any way I can select the edges and make them smooth (as in it will automatically subdivide and add extra vertices to create a smooth curve)?  Or is the only way to achieve this to do it manually (as in manually subdivide an edge, adjust it, and repeat until the edges appear to form a smoother curve)?

[pshwayka]

The easiest way to deal with this would be to do a mesh->smooth.  You are going to have to add an edge loop near the border edges to hold the shape of the object.  As you work with the model, hit the '3' key to do a smooth mesh preview, so you can judge your progress.  ('1' key puts you back in unsmoothed mode.)