obj file does not show anything

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I am really new to Maya and I want to create a model of chess piece (pawn) with it. I followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt4oMqSL0iE on youtube, but when I export the selection with obj format (format that I need) there is nothing in the file except for a line "

# This file uses centimeters as units for non-parametric coordinates.

mtllib pawn_3.mtl

". And of course nothing happens when I try to reimport that obj file back into maya. 

My guess is that the export setting has something wrong, but I am not sure where it is. Could you provide some potential fix that I can try out? Any feedback is appreciated. Also .obj is the format I need.

Attached is a snap shot of the settings and the plugin manager.

I feel like this is not an issue of the way of building the models; guess I will still try other tutorials.

Thanks!

[_sebastian_f]

the tutorial seems to use nurbs as output for the revolve. if you did that to you need to convert your model to polygons first (modify > convert > nurbs to polygons) before you can export as obj since this format can only store polygon data.