Hi!


Up to Maya 4.5, the solution would have been to export the wayward surface as a DXF file and then reimport it. Sadly, with Maya 5 this workflow is no longer possible.

What you can do (and it worked for me), is to use the script I have attatched (written by Paul Anand).

It's called nurbsExtractCurves, and does just that - it extracts a series of curves out of a nurbs surface, either in U or V direction.

After you did this, all you need to do next is to collect these and then loft. Voila!

I applied a Lattice to the new surface and it worked like a charm.

I recommend to create two shelfbuttons, one for every surface direction.

These are the commands you'd need to drag to your shelf:

For curves from U direction:

nurbsExtractCurves -u 1 0

For curves from V direction:

nurbsExtractCurves -v 1 0


NURBS sometimes show this strange behaviour. No idea why - maybe they're getting woozy from their own math.

The DXF route used to help, but...