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Maya has a tool to measure the exact distance between two points in Maya. This tool will help you to model to scale. In this tutorial I will also explain where you can change your measurement setting to centimeters, inches etc.
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21 responses to “Maya 2014 tutorial : Modeling to scale using exact measurements”
Thank you!
What i want to know is the measurement of 1 cube, not from one cube to another
Super helpful + super short
hello mike,
I am an absolute beginner to maya. How do create a cylinder of radius 3cm and height 4cm? It would be really helpful if you answered this query.
Is confusing because for dynamics, those grid units are meters but for lighting, they seem to be cm.
I am a little stupid and keep going to the Maya "HELP" pages. These are mostly useless! You answered everything perfectly in one shot!! Plus, you actually showed me how to get there and what to do.If you are looking to scale something then you will probably want to know how to measure distances at some point. You showed that too. Great job! Also, I did not know Maya was "SCALE SENSITIVE". That was a big eye opener, as I could not figure out why my lighting was so far off. Using centimeters instead of "Feet" might do that!! Now I do everything in feet.
Mike's videos are constantly saving me
Thank you Mike
Thank you for this video, I didn't even see that in the Create drop-down, it was one of the tools that didn't exist until you came along. Subbed even though this video is kind of old. Still holds true.
How do you increase the starting size of maya, when you just open maya? My Meshes are so small I have to scale first before I start modelling
Great video, thanks 🙂
How so i make it measure 2 vertexies? I click on my object and the points are placed way off behind it.
Thanks for the tutorial. How do I clear the measurements when done? The measurements didn't seem to match when models are imported into Print Studio(?)
so quick and to the point! love it! thanks mike!!!
Cool!
If u import a cad file in maya it gets smaller suppose cad file is set in metres and after importing to maya it gets small wat to do i have already set maya inits to metre
How to hide or delete that measuring tool? Hiding locator itself didn't work.
Clicking on the objects themselves give a measurement from pivot of the first object to the pivot of origin of the second object. so where ever your re trying to measure just the distance between the objects you want to go from vertex to vertex
I tried this method for modelling an object for 3D printing. But it never scales right.
how i pull a cube like that from the grid?
hey mike i have a request…please make a tutorial of modelling a furniture using specific measurements like inches
please make this tutorial this is my humble request
hi, do have like facebook so we can ask questions? cause theres a bunch of questions.. im using maya, 3ds max and autocad, but i really want to focus on maya..
thank you..