I am trying to revolve in Maya2010 i use CV curve tool to make a canopy shape and try to revolve and it errors. “Failed on the selected objects”
Script editor says:
revolve -ch 0 -po 0 -rn 1 -ssw 0 -esw 0 -ut 0 -tol 0.01 -degree 3 -s 6 -ulp 1 -ax 0 1 0 “curve1”;
// Warning: revolve1 (Revolve Node): start sweep angle equals end sweep angle. //
// Error: revolve1 (Revolve Node): failed to compute the result. //
// Error: Command revolve failed. Open Script Editor for details. //
// Error: Failed on the selected objects. //

I have tried several different curves but all with the same result. What have i done or missed? I have never had trouble doing this.

use -esw 360 (or -esw 6.2831853 if you are using angles in radians).

Or better yet, leave both -ssw and -esw (and their operands) out, because by default the command will do a full rotation.

<* Wes *>

Since i am very much a clicker and haven’t gotten into the script side of it why would it do this. I am just creating curves and trying to revolve them. I even opened up a new file and it does it there to no matter what curve i draw.

had to ditch the pref file and now its working again. don’t know why i didn’t think of that before

I misunderstood the question as one for MEL scripting.

The line you copied shows that the start and end settings for the rotate are both zero, and the error message indicates that is not usable (indeed, it is impossible to create a round surface that covers 0 degrees).

But in each options dialog like Surfaces -> Revolve [] you can use the dialog menu Edit -> Reset Settings to put the default settings back for that function. This, and many other things got reset when you deleted the preferences file. But when you do that, all other options you like have also been reset to default.

<* Wes *>