Recently Maya 2016 gives me some trouble when attempting to insert an edge loop. Regardless of shape it immediately confines the edge loop to the nearest edge but doesn't then actually make one.
I have to end up using the multi cut tool to insert an edge loop. Searched a lot online for a fix. But nothing solid. It was working fine till recently.
Any ideas on a fix?
PS. Running Maya 2016 SP5 on Mac OSX 10.9.5
Another basic poly but same issue... Insert edge loop tool not inserting edge loop.
If I go to my Maya 2014 it works. But I need to work in 2016.
Hey @Anonymous, don't know if you managed to solve your issue back then, but I recently stumbled upon the same issue (although on Win 8, Maya 2016). Solutions found around the internet didn't work for me, and haven't exactly understood what caused it in the first place (was it working before or not? installing the Bonus Tools messed with it? using some non default settings?).
Anyway what fixed it for me was simply restoring the default settings:
- from the main menu bar go to Windows->Settings/Preferences->Preferences
- then in the preferences window click on Edit->Restore Default Settings
