Circlelizer is a plugin for Maya which is written in Python with Maya API 2.0. It generates a circle from a given selection. You can either let the program calculate all parameters or define your own.
Note: use this plugin at you own risk. Save your project each time before you are using it. In my test cases I hadn't any real problems but I can't test every little edge case. Keep in mind that this plugin is still in development.
its also possible to deactive the style:
Latest Versions:
circlelize v0.99 circlelizerInterface v2.0
v0.99 Changelog
- support for Maya 2020
v0.98 Changelog
- merged version files
- updated mod file for merged Maya files (important: use the new mod file)
- added projection on mesh
- improved border edge extraction
- removed temporary extract border flag
Clone the repo and place the folder Circlelizer to your prefered location. An icon for the shelf is inside the icons folder (icon.png).
Replace the <enter here full path> with the full path to your circlelizer folder in the circlelizer.mod file.
Now, copy circlelizer.mod into:
users/<yourname>/documents/maya/modules- for any maya versionprograms/autodesk/maya<version>/modules- for the specific maya version
Inside Maya you need to go to Windows -> Settings/Preferences -> Plug-in Manager search for the circlelizer tab and load it manually and/or tick auto load.
Once it has successfully loaded the plug-in you can use any commands from it.
The _ui_* folders are used to have an isolated tested enviroment for the error und overall gui without the need to start maya.
circlelize or circlelizerInterface
import maya.cmds as cmds
cmds.circlelize() or
cmds.circlelizerInterface()
It includes two commands circlelize(...) and circlelizerInterface(...) the first one is the actual tool and the second one is used for loading the graphical interface.
- radius, r float
the radius of the circle - degree, d float
defines the angle of the circle (0-360°) experimental needs a revamp - midPoint, m (float, float, float)
defines the center of the circle - circleNormal, cn (float, float, float)
the normal which will describe the circle facing direction - projection, p bool
projects the circle onto the mesh it was created from
- slideInput, si bool
enable/disable custom widget - style, s bool
enable/disable stylesheet - logo, l bool
enable/disable logo widget
If anyone wonders about the "slideInput" it is a custom widget which I have written. Everything it does is imitating the normal input from Maya where you can drag your mouse to define a number.
Note: SlideInput widget does not work with 2016.5 and below!
- Maya 2020 (tested)
- It should work till version Maya 2013 (Please give me a feedback on versions 2013 - 2018)
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