John Player

The extrude tool in Autodesk Maya

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The extrude tool is considered one of the most powerful tools in Maya, Can be used to extrude faces, edges and vertices (Best used on faces).

  • Select a face and press CMD + E (MAC), or CTRL + E (Windows) to extrude the face
  • A small box will appear, it can sometimes be useful to increase the division count
  • Keep faces together:
    – This is an option in the dialog box that appears after creation a new extrusion
    – When checked and extruding multiple faces the extruded faces will all be connected
    – When unchecked and extruding multiple faces the extruded faces will be separate (Think teeth or jet engine outlet flaps)
  • Offset Value: The size of the extruded face
  • Local translate: How far the extrusion will go

Extruding Edges

  • Same as Faces

Extruding Vertices

  • Extruding a vertices creates additional vertices
  • Can be useful for creating spikes, try this out and understand how it works