The Smart Connect Tool is a tool combination between Maya’s Connect Components and Maya’s Connect Tool. The tool works based on what type of components are selected.
If vertices are selected, edge(s) will be automatically created between each vertex like you would expect from Maya’s native Edit Mesh → Connect (although, the edge is gonna be soft instead of hard). If edges are selected, the tool will let you interactively create edge connections like Maya’s native Mesh Tools → Connect.
The tool can also connect vertices even if they are not sharing any faces together, it will create new vertices along the path between vertices.
Selection based connect
The Smart Connect Tool automatically connects the selected vertices or let you use the interactive connect tool for edges selection.
Cut through faces
The tool can connect vertices that do not share any faces together by cutting directly through the faces between them.
You can assign a hotkey to the Smart Connect Tool inside the Maya hotkey editor.
The hotkey entry can be found in the Custom Scripts tab under GENtools → Mesh Tools → Smart Connect Tool.
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