functions related to modeling
Functions
| addMetadata | Defines the attachment of a metadata structure to one or more selected objects. |
| alignCurve | The curve align command is used to align curves in maya. |
| alignSurface | The surface align command is used to align surfaces in maya. |
| angleBetween | Returns the axis and angle required to rotate one vector onto another. |
| applyMetadata | Define the values of a particular set of metadata on selected objects. |
| arcLengthDimension | This command is used to create an arcLength dimension to display the arcLength of a curve/surface at a specified point |
| arclen | This command returns the arclength of a curve if the history flag is not set (the default). |
| attachCurve | This attach command is used to attach curves. |
| attachSurface | This attach command is used to attach surfaces. |
| bevel | The bevel command creates a new bevel surface for the specified curve. |
| bevelPlus | The bevelPlus command creates a new bevel surface for the specified curves using a given style curve. The first curve |
| bezierAnchorPreset | This command provides a queryable interface for Bezier curve shapes. |
| bezierAnchorState | The bezierAnchorState command provides an easy interface to modify anchor states: - Smooth/Broken anchor tangents - |
| bezierCurveToNurbs | The bezierCurveToNurbs command attempts to convert an existing NURBS curve to a Bezier curve. |
| bezierInfo | This command provides a queryable interface for Bezier curve shapes. |
| blend2 | This command creates a surface by blending between given curves. |
| blindDataType | This command creates a blind data type, which is represented by a blindDataTemplate node in the DG. A blind data type |
| boundary | This command produces a boundary surface given 3 or 4 curves. |
| canCreateManip | This command returns true if there can be a manipulator made for the specified selection, false otherwise. |
| changeSubdivComponentDisplayLevel | Explicitly forces the subdivision surface to display components at a particular level of refinement. |
| changeSubdivRegion | Changes a subdivision surface region based on the command parameters. |
| circle | The circle command creates a circle or partial circle (arc) |
| circularFillet | The cmd is used to compute the rolling ball surface fillet ( circular fillet ) between two given NURBS surfaces. To |
| closeCurve | The closeCurve command closes a curve, making it periodic. The pathname to the newly closed curve and the name of the |
| closeSurface | The closeSurface command closes a surface in the U, V, or both directions, making it periodic. The close direction is |
| coarsenSubdivSelectionList | Coarsens a subdivision surface set of components based on the selection list. |
| cone | The cone command creates a new cone and/or a dependency node that creates one, and returns their names. |
| constructionHistory | This command turns construction history on or off. |
| createSubdivRegion | Creates a subdivision surface region based on the selection list. |
| curve | The curve command creates a new curve from a list of control vertices (CVs). A string is returned containing the |
| curveIntersect | You must specify two curves to intersect. |
| curveOnSurface | The curve-on-surface command creates a new curve-on-surface from a list of control vertices (CVs). A string is returned |
| cylinder | The cylinder command creates a new cylinder and/or a dependency node that creates one, and returns their names. |
| dataStructure | Takes in a description of the structure and creates it, adding it to the list of available data structures. |
| detachCurve | The detachCurve command detaches a curve into pieces, given a list of parameter values. You can also specify which |
| detachSurface | The detachSurface command detaches a surface into pieces, given a list of parameter values and a direction. You can also |
| doubleProfileBirailSurface | The arguments are 4 cuves called “profile1” “profile2” “rail1” “rail2”. |
| duplicateCurve | The duplicateCurve command takes a curve on a surface and and returns the 3D curve. The curve on a surface could be |
| duplicateSurface | The duplicateSurface command takes a surface patch (face) and and returns the 3D surface. Connected patches are returned |
| editMetadata | This command is used to set metadata elements onto or remove metadata elements from an object. |
| extendCurve | This command extends a curve or creates a new curve as an extension |
| extendSurface | This command extends a surface or creates a new surface as an extension. |
| extrude | This command computes a surface given a profile curve and possibly a path curve. |
| filletCurve | The curve fillet command creates a fillet curve between two curves. |
| filterExpand | Based on selected components (or components specified on the command line), the command filters and/or expands the list given the options. |
| fitBspline | The fitBspline command fits the CVs from an input curve and and returns a 3D curve. |
| freeFormFillet | This command creates a free form surface fillet across two surface trim edges or isoparms or curve on surface. |
| geomToBBox | Create polygonal mesh bounding boxes for geometry. |
| getMetadata | This command is used to retrieve the values of metadata elements from a node or scene. |
| globalStitch | This command computes a globalStitch of NURBS surfaces. There should be at least one NURBS surface. The NURBS surface(s) |
| grid | This command changes the size and spacing of lines on the ground plane displayed in the perspective and orthographic views. |
| hardenPointCurve | The hardenPointCurve command changes the knots of a curve given a list of control point indices so that the knot |
| hasMetadata | This command is used to query for the presence of metadata elements on a node, components, or scene. |
| illustratorCurves | The illustratorCurves command creates NURBS curves from an input Adobe(R) Illustrator(R) file |
| insertKnotCurve | The insertKnotCurve command inserts knots into a curve given a list of parameter values. The number of knots to add at |
| insertKnotSurface | The insertKnotSurface command inserts knots (aka isoparms) into a surface given a list of parameter values. The number |
| intersect | The intersect command creates a curve on surface where all surfaces intersect with each other. |
| loft | This command computes a skinned (lofted) surface passing through a number of NURBS curves. There must be at least two |
| makeSingleSurface | This command performs a stitch and tessellate operation |
| manipOptions | Changes the global manipulator parameters In query mode, return type is based on queried flag. |
| moveVertexAlongDirection | The command moves the selected vertex ( control vertex ) in the specified unit direction by the given magnitude. |
| multiProfileBirailSurface | The cmd creates a railed surface by sweeping the profiles using two rail curves. |
| nurbsBoolean | This command performs a boolean operation. |
| nurbsCopyUVSet | This is only a sample command for debugging purposes, which makes a copy of the implicit st parameterization on a nurbs surface to be the 1st explicit uvset. |
| nurbsCube | The nurbsCube command creates a new NURBS Cube made up of six planes. It creates an unit cube with center at origin by |
| nurbsCurveToBezier | The nurbsCurveToBezier command attempts to convert an existing NURBS curve to a Bezier curve. |
| nurbsEditUV | Command edits uvs on NURBS objects. When used with the query flag, it returns the uv values associated with the |
| nurbsPlane | The nurbsPlane command creates a new NURBS Plane and return the name of the new surface. It creates an unit plane with |
| nurbsSelect | Performs selection operations on NURBS objects.If any of the border flags is set, then the appropriate borders are |
| nurbsSquare | The nurbsSquare command creates a square |
| nurbsToPoly | This command tesselates a NURBS surface and produces a polygonal surface. The name of the new polygonal surface is |
| nurbsToPolygonsPref | This command sets the values used by the nurbs-to-polygons (or “tesselate”) preference. |
| nurbsToSubdiv | This command converts a NURBS surface and produces a subd surface. The name of the new subdivision surface is returned. |
| nurbsToSubdivPref | This command sets the values used by the nurbs-to-subdivision surface preference. |
| nurbsUVSet | Allows user to toggle between implicit and explicit UVs on a NURBS object. Also provides a facility to create, delete, |
| offsetCurve | The offset command creates new offset curves from the selected curves. |
| offsetCurveOnSurface | The offsetCurveOnSurface command offsets a curve on surface resulting in another curve on surface. The connecting type |
| offsetSurface | The offset command creates new offset surfaces from the selected surfaces. |
| planarSrf | This command computes a planar trimmed surface given planar boundary curves that form a closed region. |
| plane | The command creates a sketch plane (also known as a “construction plane”) in space. |
| pointCurveConstraint | The command enables direct manipulation of a NURBS curve. It does so by apply a position constraint at the specified |
| pointOnCurve | This command returns information for a point on a NURBS curve. If no flag is specified, it assumes p/position by |
| pointOnSurface | This command returns information for a point on a surface. |
| pointPosition | This command returns the world or local space position for any type of point object. |
| polyAppend | Appends a new face to the selected polygonal object. |
| polyAppendVertex | Appends a new face to the selected polygonal object. |
| polyAutoProjection | Projects a map onto an object, using several orthogonal projections simultaneously. |
| polyAverageNormal | Set normals of vertices or vertex-faces to an average value when the vertices within a given threshold. |
| polyAverageVertex | Moves the selected vertices of a polygonal object to round its shape. |
| polyBevel | Bevel edges. |
| polyBlendColor | Takes two color sets and blends them together into a third specified color set. |
| polyBlindData | Command creates blindData types (basically creates an instance of TdnPolyBlindData). When used with the query flag, it |
| polyBoolOp | This command creates a new poly as the result of a boolean operation on input polys : union, intersection, |
| polyBridgeEdge | Bridges two sets of edges. |
| polyCacheMonitor | When the cacheInput attribute has a positive value the midModifier node caches the output mesh improving performance in |
| polyCheck | Dumps a description of internal memory representation of poly objects.If no objects are specified in the command line, |
| polyChipOff | Extract facets. |
| polyClipboard | The command allows the user to copy and paste certain polygonal attributes to a clipboard. |
| polyCloseBorder | Closes open borders of objects. |
| polyCollapseEdge | Turns each selected edge into a point. |
| polyCollapseFacet | Turns each selected facet into a point. |
| polyColorBlindData | This command applies false color to the selected polygonal components and objects, depending on whether or not blind data exists for the selected components (or, in the case of poly objects, dynamic attributes), and, depending on the color mode indicated, what the values are. |
| polyColorDel | Deletes color from selected components. |
| polyColorMod | Modifies the attributes of a poly color set. |
| polyColorPerVertex | Command associates color(rgb and alpha) with vertices on polygonal objects. |
| polyColorSet | Command to do the following to color sets: - delete an existing color set. |
| polyCompare | Compares two Polygonal Geometry objects with a fine control on what to compare.If no objects are specified in the |
| polyCone | The cone command creates a new polygonal cone. |
| polyConnectComponents | Splits polygon edges according to the selected components. |
| polyCopyUV | Copy some UVs from a UV set into another. |
| polyCrease | Command to set the crease values on the edges or vertices of a poly. |
| polyCreateFacet | Create a new polygonal object with the specified face, which will be closed. |
| polyCube | The cube command creates a new polygonal cube. |
| polyCut | This command splits a mesh, or a set of poly faces, along a plane. |
| polyCylinder | The cylinder command creates a new polygonal cylinder. |
| polyCylindricalProjection | Projects a cylindrical map onto an object. |
| polyDelEdge | Deletes selected edges, and merges neighboring faces. |
| polyDelFacet | Deletes faces. |
| polyDelVertex | Deletes vertices. |
| polyDuplicateAndConnect | This command duplicates the input polygonal object, connects up the outMesh attribute of the original polygonal shape to |
| polyDuplicateEdge | Duplicates a series of connected edges (edgeLoop) |
| polyEditEdgeFlow | Edit edges of a polygonal object to respect surface curvature. |
| polyEditUV | Command edits uvs on polygonal objects. |
| polyEditUVShell | Command edits uv shells on polygonal objects. |
| polyEvaluate | Returns the required counts on the specified objects.If no objects are specified in the command line, then the objects |
| polyExtrudeEdge | Extrude edges separately or together. |
| polyExtrudeFacet | Extrude faces. |
| polyExtrudeVertex | Command that extrudes selected vertices outwards. |
| polyFlipEdge | Command to flip the edges shared by 2 adjacent triangles. |
| polyFlipUV | Flip (mirror) the UVs (in texture space) of input polyFaces, about either the U or V axis.. |
| polyForceUV | A set of functionalities can be called through this command. |
| polyGeoSampler | This command performs a render sampling of surface color and transparency for each selected vertex or face and stores the sampled data as either the color value, or uses the sampled data to displace the affected vertices or faces by a sampled data value. |
| polyHelix | The polyHelix command creates a new polygonal helix. |
| polyHole | Command to set and clear holes on given faces. |
| polyInfo | Command query’s topological information on polygonal objects and components. |
| polyInstallAction | Installs/uninstalls several things to help the user to perform the specified action : PickmaskInternal selection |
| polyLayoutUV | Move UVs in the texture plane to avoid overlaps. |
| polyListComponentConversion | This command converts poly components from one or more types to another one or more types, and returns the list of the conversion. |
| polyMapCut | Cut along edges of the texture mapping. |
| polyMapDel | Deletes texture coordinates (UVs) from selected faces. |
| polyMapSew | Sew border edges in texture space. |
| polyMapSewMove | This command can be used to Move and Sew together separate UV pieces along geometric edges. UV pieces that correspond to |
| polyMergeEdge | Sews two border edges together.The new edge is located either on the first, last, or between both selected edges, |
| polyMergeFacet | The second face becomes a hole in the first face.The new holed face is located either on the first, last, or between |
| polyMergeUV | Merge UVs of an object based on their distance. UVs are merge only if they belong to the same 3D vertex. |
| polyMergeVertex | Merge vertices within a given threshold.Since this allows merging any vertices that lie on the same object it is |
| polyMirrorFace | Mirror all the faces of the selected object. |
| polyMoveEdge | Modifies edges of a polygonal object. |
| polyMoveFacet | Modifies facet of a polygonal object. |
| polyMoveFacetUV | Modifies the map by moving all UV values associated with the selected face(s). The UV coordinates of the model are |
| polyMoveUV | Moves selected UV coordinates in 2D space. As the selected UVs are adjusted, the way the image is mapped onto the object |
| polyMoveVertex | Modifies vertices of a polygonal object. |
| polyMultiLayoutUV | place the UVs of the selected polygonal objects so that they do not overlap. |
| polyNormal | Control the normals of an object. |
| polyNormalPerVertex | Command associates normal(x, y, z) with vertices on polygonal objects. |
| polyNormalizeUV | Normalizes the UVs of input polyFaces. The existing UVs of the faces are normalized between 0 and 1. |
| polyOptUvs | Optimizes selected UVs. |
| polyOptions | Changes the global display polygonal attributes. |
| polyOutput | Dumps a description of internal memory representation of poly objects. |
| polyPipe | The polyPipe command creates a new polygonal pipe. |
| polyPlanarProjection | Projects a map onto an object, using an orthogonal projection. |
| polyPlane | The mesh command creates a new polygonal plane. |
| polyPlatonicSolid | The polyPlatonicSolid command creates a new polygonal platonic solid. |
| polyPoke | Introduces a new vertex in the middle of the selected face, and connects it to the rest of the vertices of the face. |
| polyPrimitive | Create a polygon primative |
| polyPrism | The prism command creates a new polygonal prism. |
| polyProjectCurve | The polyProjectCurve command creates curves by projecting a selected curve onto a selected poly mesh. The direction of |
| polyProjection | Creates a mapping on the selected polygonal faces. |
| polyPyramid | The pyramid command creates a new polygonal pyramid. |
| polyQuad | Merges selected triangles of a polygonal object into four-sided faces. |
| polyQueryBlindData | Command query’s blindData associated with particular polygonal components. So, the command will require the following to |
| polyReduce | Simplify a polygonal object by reducing geometry while preserving the overall shape of the mesh. |
| polySelect | This command makes different types of poly component selections. |
| polySelectConstraint | Changes the global polygonal selection constraints. |
| polySelectConstraintMonitor | Manage the window to display/edit the polygonal selection constraint parameters |
| polySeparate | This command creates new objects from the given poly. |
| polySetToFaceNormal | This command takes selected polygonal vertices or vertex-faces and changes their normals. |
| polySewEdge | Merge border edges within a given threshold.Perform pair-wise comparison of selected edges. Pairs whose corresponding |
| polySlideEdge | Moves an edge loop selection along the edges connected to the sides of its vertices. |
| polySmooth | Smooth a polygonal object. |
| polySoftEdge | Selectively makes edges soft or hard.An edge will be made hard if the angle between two owning faces is sharper (larger) |
| polySphere | The sphere command creates a new polygonal sphere. |
| polySphericalProjection | Projects a spherical map onto an object. |
| polySplit | Split facets/edges of a polygonal object. |
| polySplitEdge | Split Edges.There are two operations for this command depending on the value of the -operation flag. If -operation is |
| polySplitRing | Splits a series of ring edges of connected quads and inserts connecting edges between them. |
| polySplitVertex | Use this command to split one or more vertices.A mesh is made up of one or more faces. The faces are defined by edges |
| polyStraightenUVBorder | Move border UVs along a simple curve. |
| polySubdivideEdge | Subdivides an edge into two or more subedges.Default : divide edge into two edges of equal length. |
| polySubdivideFacet | Subdivides a face into quads or triangles.In quad mode, a center point is introduced at the center of each face and |
| polyToSubdiv | This command converts a polygon and produces a subd surface. |
| polyTorus | The torus command creates a new polygonal torus. |
| polyTransfer | Transfer information from one polygonal object to another one. |
| polyTriangulate | Triangulation breaks polygons down into triangles, ensuring that all faces are planar and non-holed. |
| polyUVRectangle | Given two vertices, does one of the following: 1) If the vertices define opposite corners of a rectangular area of |
| polyUVSet | Command to do the following to uv sets: - delete an existing uv set. |
| polyUnite | This command creates a new poly as an union of a list of polys If no objects are specified in the command line, then the |
| polyWedgeFace | Extrude faces about an axis. |
| projectCurve | The projectCurve command creates curves on surface where all selected curves project onto the selected surfaces. |
| projectTangent | The project tangent command is used to align (for tangents) a curve to two other curves or a surface. |
| propMove | Performs a proportional translate, scale or rotate operation on any number of objects. |
| querySubdiv | Queries a subdivision surface based on a set of query parameters and updates the selection list with the results. |
| rebuildCurve | This command rebuilds a curve by modifying its parameterization. |
| rebuildSurface | This command rebuilds a surface by modifying its parameterization. |
| refineSubdivSelectionList | Refines a subdivision surface set of components based on the selection list. |
| reverseCurve | The reverseCurve command reverses the direction of a curve or curve-on-surface. A string is returned containing the |
| reverseSurface | The reverseSurface command reverses one or both directions of a surface or can be used to “swap” the U and V directions |
| revolve | This command creates a revolved surface by revolving the given profile curve about an axis. |
| roundConstantRadius | This command generates constant radius NURBS fillets and NURBS corner surfaces for matching edge pairs on NURBS |
| setXformManip | This command changes some of the settings of the xform manip, to control its appearance. |
| singleProfileBirailSurface | This cmd creates a railed surface by sweeping the profile curve along the two rail curves. |
| smoothCurve | The smooth command smooths the curve at the given control points. |
| smoothTangentSurface | The smoothTangentSurface command smooths the surface along an isoparm at each parameter value. The name of the surface |
| sphere | The sphere command creates a new sphere. |
| squareSurface | This command produces a square surface given 3 or 4 curves. |
| stitchSurface | The stitchSurface command aligns two surfaces together to be G(0) and/or G(1) continuous by ajusting only the Control |
| stitchSurfacePoints | The stitchSurfacePoints command aligns two or more surface points along the boundaries together to a single point. In |
| subdAutoProjection | Projects a texture map onto an object, using several orthogonal projections simultaneously. |
| subdCleanTopology | Command cleans topology of subdiv surfaces - at all levels. |
| subdCollapse | This command converts a takes a subdivision surface, passed as the argument, and produces a subdivision surface with a number of hierarchy levels “removed”. |
| subdDuplicateAndConnect | This command duplicates the input subdivision surface object, connects up the outSubdiv attribute of the original subd |
| subdEditUV | Command edits uvs on subdivision surfaces. |
| subdLayoutUV | Move UVs in the texture plane to avoid overlaps. |
| subdListComponentConversion | This command converts subdivision surface components from one or more types to another one or more types, and returns the list of the conversion. |
| subdMapCut | Cut along edges of the texture mapping. |
| subdMapSewMove | This command can be used to Move and Sew together separate UV pieces along geometric edges. UV pieces that correspond to |
| subdMatchTopology | Command matches topology across multiple subdiv surfaces - at all levels. |
| subdMirror | This command takes a subdivision surface, passed as the argument, and produces a subdivision surface that is a mirror. |
| subdPlanarProjection | Projects a map onto an object, using an orthogonal projection. |
| subdToBlind | The subdivision surface hierarchical edits will get copied into blind data on the given polygon. |
| subdToPoly | This command tessellates a subdivision surface and produces polygon. |
| subdTransferUVsToCache | The subdivision surface finer level uvs will get copied to the polygonToSubd node sent in as argument.The command takes |
| subdiv | Provides useful information about the selected subdiv or components, such as the deepest subdivided level, the children or parents of the currently selected components, etc. |
| subdivCrease | Set the creasing on subdivision mesh edges or mesh points that are on the selection list. |
| subdivDisplaySmoothness | Sets or querys the display smoothness of subdivision surfaces on the selection list or of all subdivision surfaces if the -all option is set. |
| surface | The cmd creates a NURBS spline surface (rational or non rational). The surface is created by specifying control vertices |
| textCurves | The textCurves command creates NURBS curves from a text string using the specified font. A single letter can be made up |
| tolerance | This command sets tolerances used by modelling operations that require a tolerance, such as surface fillet. |
| torus | The torus command creates a new torus and/or a dependency node that creates one, and returns their names. |
| transferAttributes | Samples the attributes of a source surface (first argument) and transfers them onto a target surface (second argument). |
| transferShadingSets | Command to transfer shading set assignments between meshes. |
| trim | This command trims a surface to its curves on surface by first splitting the surface and then selecting which regions to keep or discard. |
| unfold | None |
| untangleUV | This command will aid in the creation of non-overlapping regions (i.e. |
| untrim | Untrim the surface. |
| uvSnapshot | Builds an image containg the UVs of the selected objects. |