Maya quadrangulate does not work on mesh from max?

[malcolm]

Maya's quadrangulate does not seem to work on some meshes one of our artists got from max, anyone got a custom tool that works better than maya's native one?

[bbob]

If max is an option, it has that too, in that ribbon everyone hates. Thats 2010 and up, though.

[malcolm]

No sorry we don't have max at the studio.

[nullfed]

Have you tried running Mesh>Cleanup first?

[MoP]

Only reason I can think of is that maybe the vertices got broken on import, maybe do a Merge Vertices before trying Quadrangulate?

What do you mean by "not work", do you mean it literally does nothing? Or does it quadrangulate the mesh, but badly?

[malcolm]

MoP, it literally does nothing.

nullfed, no I haven't tried that yet I'll take a look at it later I don't have the file on my machine I'm posting for one of our artists.

[malcolm]

Andy found a solution, the infamous combine with cube has fixed the model and now it can be quadrangulated normally.

[nullfed]

Is there anything that can't be fixed by attaching a cube to it?! god bless you little cube.