Circlelizer for Maya

Circlelizer is a plugin for Maya which is written in Python with . It generates a circle from a given selection. You can either let the program calculate all parameters or define your own.

The repository is now on GitHub!

https://github.com/B4rtware/circlelizer-maya

Changelog

• circlelize v0.99
  
• circlelizerInterface v2.0
  

• support for Maya 2020

• 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

• [22.08.20] - released new version v0.99
• [08.03.17] - released new version v0.98
  
• [28.02.17] - modified the mod file for Maya version 2017
  
• [20.02.17] - added circlelizer.mod for easier installation
  
• [09.11.16]added support for older versions of Maya.
  
• [19.10.16] - published
  

• [22.08.20] - updated text for new version
• [10.15.17] - updated text for installation
  
• [08.03.17] - updated text for new version
  
• [20.02.17] - updated installation instruction for .mod file
  
• [22.01.17] - added another example image
  
• [30.12.16] - updated my email address (the one I provided did not work correctly)
  

Installation Instructions

You just need to place the folder which is inside the zip folder to a location which you prefer. An icon for the shelf is inside the 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 version
  
• programs/autodesk/maya<version>/modules - for the <version> specific maya version

Inside Maya you need to go to 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.

In Mel:
circlelize or
circlelizerInterface

In Python:
import maya.cmds as cmds
cmds.circlelize() or
cmds.circlelizerInterface()

Commands

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.

supports:

• radius, r
• degree, d
• midPoint, m
• circleNormal, cn
  
• projectionp