There's a similar way you can do this just by constraining your pivot. Once you've hit extrude, hit W to go back to your Move tool and then D to adjust the pivot. Now hold Ctrl and left-click on the edge you want to align to (which would be your inward facing edge ring at the center of your corner bevel) and then D to accept. Now your move tool is oriented to the 45 degree mark so you get the same thing as adjusting X & Z simultaneously. The upside of this method is you can potentially move your edge in at a non-45 degree angle if you wish and you don't have to have your model be on a world-axis plane; it could be tilted or rotated arbitrarily. And you don't have to remember, "Wait, am I on the XZ plane or YZ plane?" etc. Once your move tool is oriented at the correct angle you can also then snap it to something more convenient (one of the verts for example) rather than floating arbitrarily in the center of the selection. The downside is that if you don't HAVE a 45 degree edge to align it to, like you did an even number of divisions on your bevel, you're out of luck. You need geometry to align to. It does have the same issue with needing instances and cleanup that your method does.

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One of those basic things Maya should've addressed 20 years ago. How is this just not like a checkbox in the extrusion options? It drives me crazy how they focus on obscure features that only 5% of the users will ever touch, while 95% of us are coping with these basic, "3D 101" workflow issues multiple times a day.

Thanks for sharing that tip Malcolm. I wish I had found this video earlier. This issue is one I also encounter from time to time and it drives me crazy. I've been looking for a solution for a while now. What you demonstrated here seems straightforward enough for a thick-headed dope like me to remember. This is Awesome! Thank you once again

Oh man, you just changed my whole workflow. This is great.

Nice trick! I will definitly use that. I will also use the vertices pivot to scale down to make the curve smaller.

Another amazing insight! Thanks Malcolm!

Thanks Malcolm! Really great tip! Never would thought of that. I do know of another way of achieving a very similar result that works very well imo. Without instancing the obj. Just select that edge and do the extrude; accept it and change the gizmo to scale; then press CTRL + MMB drag - that will do a scale along the normals. Might not be 100% as accurate as yours, but I think it works great, and it's a bit faster. In some situations might be all you need.. Give it a try.

4:40 Thank you for the solution! I never would have thought to do it this way

Oh god the answer to this bastard problem was right there all along

This make so much sense. Thanks for showing us this tip. 🙂

Great Trick! I am a little lost in what you want exactly though. As in: IF you want perfect round corners or just the curvature to repeat itself. If the former: I just use wedge to model out the frame and then fill it in. If the later: I model the frame out WITHOUT the rounded corners (In your case 45 degree cuts) and then when I am finished with the model I select and bevel/chamfer the connecting edges... adding divisions to my will... to the width as I wish. Both methods are in some way a little less impediment in compare to yours. But the elegance of your method is the amount of control you are granted... Which I liked a lot. It is all a matter of give/take to what fits your needs and time restraints guess. I hope this helps... Black

OMG! this is SO SMART!! It will save me 100s of hours! Thank you!

This is super useful! thanks for sharing.

this was super helpful thankyou!!

this is such an awesome trick.. thanks

You could also plan out, bevel all corners at the same time and do your extrusions later. Or crease edges and subdiv later. Though you method works too.

Did not know this trick. But I usually make a duplicate of the object, cut until one corner left, and set the move tool to custom following the middle diagonal edge to move it to the position I want. Re-arrange the vertices of the loose ends to meet the parent object's axis, then mirror it back to one piece, combine, and bridge. Not a parametric method but it gets the job done fairly fast and easy.

Very cool, thanks for this. Now we need an easy way to do matching radius fillets with bevels, for some reason maya just sucks at this.

Maya sorcery! Thanks as always \m/

This is a nice trick. I'll try it next time. There is one other problem: Extruding inwards on a curved surface. The result is always uneven and I have to spend time trying to manually fix it.

Genius!! thank you!

Useful! Thank you!

Holy crap!!! I have the jankiest workflow to do this and it's not actually this perfect. This will save so much time. I do not have a better way at all lol

out of topic. hello sir! Vertex snap (v) doesn't respect planar handles in move tool. Do you have some advice for this? Cause i need it after Max.

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The fastest way to get what you want is to just create a rectangle and inset the fact via CTRL+E (Extrude Face), and delete the backface. Next, Use the Connect tool to insert an edge loop at the midpoints of each edge running vertical and horizontal (you'll bevel these to add your support loops later). Next, grab the diagonal edges and and bevel them to whatever resolution is needed. Bevel the lines you created with the Connect Tool earlier to get your support edges. Now go in with the Insert loop tool and add whatever detail you need.

hey malcolm, nice trick! especially in using the x and z axis attributes inside of the polyextrude node! normally, if you select a component, you don't get access to the axes in the channel box! actually, with the scale tool, if you CONTROL drag the perpendicular scale handle (in your case it would be Y), you'd do a 2D scale on x and z. it would still shrink but the shape would be perfectly maintained until it collapses in the middle. you're getting the wonky shapes if you drag the x and z individually because you're not maintaining the proportion. but if you do the 2d scale, it is maintained although it does get smaller. your version is better though in that the distance on the top and on the sides remain the same as if you are using offset. with the scale, you wider axis gets a wider inset space and shorter axis gets a shorter inset space.

Thank you for the video. I have a problem while extruding my mesh. The model is distorted after extruding. The vertices of the object fly apart. Can you please help me?

Clever!

OMG! Thank you!

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can we use this without using mirror

Something quick here, my extrude gizmo only appears the Z direction. How can I fix it? Thanks!

You could just activate the extrude edge tool and then switch to scale (R).

So maybe Im blind but I cant find that mirroring toolbox/shelf from your store? I've purchased a bunch of your scripts but cant find this one heh. Are you sure its on the store?

yea ok that just shows the idea, but for more complex objects, curved and non planar surfaces this helps nothing. But it got me thinking and I just tested a few things in Maya. I feel like there would be some simple script possible to create curves of the broder egdes, offset the curve (also creates errors) then rebuild and smooth the curve, then extrute the geometry and snap it onto the curve. Also not 100% accurate but could work in many occasions.

What I would like to know is how to make that soomth rounder corner.

Hated this issue since the beginning. I thought it was just me not being knowledgeable enough. It seems it was common instead.

Strange that it works in max and not Maya, I use Maya exclusively for the temporary pivot/snap controls (holding D) I can't model in Max because it is missing. Why can't we have the best of all features !? we need Mayax...

But what if I need it to shrink?

probably a dumb question but any chance that one day this maya toolkit can be used in blender's industry compatible mode?

Im so impressed that Maya still cant do this simple things properly in 2023.

Why not just use bevel here? Make the corner you want to round a single edge loop and bevel it with chamfer enabled and ass many segments as you want. Done EZPZ.