New Modeling Features in Maya 2010

* Intuitive polygon workflow with a host of intelligent selection features, such as true soft selection, preselection highlighting, and camera-based selection culling.

* A complete set of editing tools, including bridge, poke, cut, wedge, bevel, extrude, chamfer vertex, extrude along a curve, mirror cut, edge loop, edge ring, slide edge, and pick-walk tools.

* Subdivision surfaces with variable creasing as well as the ability to display and render different levels of detail.

* Transfer Polygon Attributes enables modelers to transfer UV, color-per-vertex, and vertex position information between polygon meshes of differing topologies, on a per-vertex basis using the Artisan paint tool, even if they are separated in space or of different proportion/scale.

* Polygon reduction, data cleanup, blind data tagging, and level-of-detail tools enable artists to optimize scenes for interactive display.

* Nonmanifold architecture, focused on the details of creating, editing, and texturing polygonal models, includes multiple sets of animatable color-per-vertex (CPV), prelighting, user-defined normals, and normal map generation suitable for games/interactive users.
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* Streamlined workflow for creative texturing—including UV creation and editing, auto-projection, interactive relaxation, layout, lattice, and smudge tools, along with quick access to commonly used tools via the UV Texture Editor toolbar.

* Multiple UV sets support separate texture coordinates for separate texture channels.

* Per-instance UV sets allow a single mesh to be used to represent multiple objects, reducing scene overhead.

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* Precise spline-based curve and surface construction tools include lofting, birail, beveling, extrusion, trim, boundary, offset, Booleans, rounding, and square.

* Surfaces can be attached, detached, aligned, stitched together, extended, filleted, or rebuilt with a high degree of control over parameterization and continuity.

* NURBS tools can be used to create polygon meshes, and multiple NURBS patches can be merged into a single polygon mesh.

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