How to Quickly Model a Wire/Cable using Maya 2018

Hi Creators,
This is a video request! From offices to telephone poles, cables and wires are found everywhere in our environments. Modeling cables and wires is essential in making your environments look realistic. In this video tutorial, I will show you how to quickly and efficiently model a wire/cable using Maya 2018.
We will be using tools such as EP curves, extrude from curves and more!
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Software used: Maya 2018, Photoshop and Arnold
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Hopefully this helps someone else, but at 3:55, if you can't seem to be able to snap the vertex to the curve, just make sure that you hold C then Middle Mouse Button DIRECTLY ON THE CURVE.

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I still can’t get it to work :/

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@@flaser4099 To make things simpler, isolate view both the curve and the cylindrical plane. You can do this by shift selecting both items then hit "CTRL+1". Now give it a go again. I noticed that sometimes it doesnt work too, I think theres something wrong with the program.

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same, it seems the step i always forget is to select the polygon faces instead of the object itself. normally i just extrude a plane from object mode, but here that doesnt seem to work

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[@blobfish2]

For anyone else who discovers the problem of the extruding not following the curve, with the menu simply popping up with the normal extrude options: you might be in the object mode. Try selecting the curve, then right click (on the poly object) and chose component mode face, shift-select the right face and then extrude

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for those who still can't do it this: - select the curve and set it to control vertex - then click shift and click the center pivot (make sure the curve and the pivot are selected together) - drag it to the first vertex

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Awesome stuff! Currently trying to model a violin and this really helped me get the wires to look more realistic, thanks!

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Lifesaving tutorial.Simple and easy to follow.

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Awesome tutorial! You could also use Curve Warp 😉 first create for example a cylinder add height divisions, then create the curve, after that you freeze transformations the cylinder, then shift select the curve then go to Deform> Curve Warp.

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Thank you for a great tutorial! It worked perfectly when i was snapping ”wire” to curve that I drew. But once I wanted to create the wire along circle, not curve, it worked partly. Most of the circle turned into wire, with the exception of one part....

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You can also download maya bonus tools. And there the tab "maya bonus tools/modeling/curve to tube mesh

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Thank you, very good instruction, it worked for me, I am recreating the scene from Back to the Future when Doc to catch the lightning, so I use this tutorial to create that cable which was used to catch the lightening

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