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[Closed] How do I draw line on the surface?

I’ve been using max for about 7 years now and I still have no idea how to do such a basic thing. Basically how do I draw a line on an object, similar how autogrid works with the first point that you place down, except with all of the points. Let me know if this doesn’t make sense.

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Did you never use Snaps in all those years?
Just turn on Snaps->Face,Vertex, Edge.

edit: Ahh, sorry didn`t see this was in the Maxscript/SDK forum.

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(@denist)
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the question was about how to draw (create) line on the object surface a la maya’s ‘live object’ constraint

3DS max doesn’t have it built-in

(@spacefrog)
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Oh yes it has. It’s in the Modelling Ribbon->Freeform->Polytools
And it’s working great.

What exactly does that do?

I wanted to suggest exactly same thing, but I first wanted to make sure we are really talking just about modeling and not about some MXS/SDK stuff

Awesome, thanks guys!