Why wont my objects render or preview as smooth

[Anonymous]

I created several cylinders in Fusion 360 and imported them as objects into Maya 2020.  They preview and render as a cylinder with 20 sides not as a smooth cylinder.   Just for kicks, in the same scene I created a cylinder polygon in Maya to put right next to the object imported from Fusion...side by side, one from fusion, one from Maya....the one from Maya previews and renders as smooth but the one brought in from Fusion does not even though it was imported as an .obj.

What am I missing.   I can't for the life of me get the imported objects to preview or render as smooth cylinders.

Tex

[J450NP13]

You may need to soften the edges.  Sometimes objects come into Maya like that, with hard edges.  There may be a setting when exporting or importing to smooth.  Or something like that.

[Anonymous]

Thank you,   can you guide me thru this since I am new to Maya.

tex

[J450NP13]

Select the edges and then in the model display tab hit soft edges

[Anonymous]

I figured it out thanks.