I am going crazy trying to figure out why i get so many 5 sided faces on the resulting subd when there are none on my poly model. Any idea how to avoid this? or fix this?

Try to keep 3-sided and n-sided faces to a minimum on your original poly mesh. Also make sure all the vertices are all merged together properly.

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-Mike
The Maya Toolbelt

I'm going crazy trying to convert also. I've changed my normals to face outside. I've merged every single vertices.... I even tried taking my pieces a part and doing it separately and but to no avail. Now my nurbs surface turned squarish....

I tried cleaning up polies.. and AGAIN!! it doesnt work. What other things do you have to check for?

The only other thing I can think of is to make sure you have the number of polygons high enough in the convert settings.

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-Mike
The Maya Toolbelt

I had a similar problem; it wouldn't let me convert either, said I needed to clean the polys, which I did, and it let me convert but it messed up a part of my geometry because it split some vertices. I merged them again and again and told me to clean polys every time, so I finally had to go back in, delete the area around the distortion and add a plane the fit it. Worked after that, and I have no idea why. Sometimes I wish I had my own personal Maya Pro, just waiting for me to ask for help lol.

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