Getting poly edges in max?

[squeakybadger]

Hi all,

I'm trying to speed up our kerb making, which usually involves selecting all the edges in edit poly and doing create shape from selection (which takes a while and is quite fiddly)

Just wondering if anyone knows how to get the edges of a selected polygon like the attached, so I can just select the bits I need and it will give me edges?

Cheers for any help!

-j

[Neilg]

Hold down shift & click on edge mode (not the list at the top)
Holding down ctrl and doing that does a wider selection - these also work going from edges to poly & vertex etc. Once of the most useful tricks i've been told, makes modeling so much easier

[squeakybadger]

Ok, that has saved me about an hour a scheme doing kerbs

I tried the edge loops, growing, shrinking, but never thought to click on the icon.

Thanks cg!

[Da_elf]

what happened to selecting the top poly, then quad menu --> convert to edge?

[Da_elf]

hmm. tried the shift thing. seems to do the same as convert to edge

[squeakybadger]

thanks for the tip.

can't say I have really looked at the quad menu apart from changing spline vertexes into bezier or corners