Hey Adam, It doesn't work because you're using the wrong quotation marks, *parentConstraint* should be enclosed by backticks / backquotes / ` (it's an imperative form of eval... sort of). http://download.autodesk.com/global/docs/maya2014/en_us/files/FAQ_What_is_the_difference_between_eval_backquotes_and.htm
Cheers! On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:11 AM, Adam Sale <adamfs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Cesar, funny, I had been using the one liner to match transforms, > position, rotation, etc about 6 months ago, no problems > > Now, however, running the command just doesn't work for me in MEL in Maya > 2015 Ext1 SP5. > > delete 'parentConstraint'; > > same goes for point, scale and orient. > > Selecting two objects and running returns a syntax error Line 1.8 > > Not sure why it would have stopped. Cristobal which version of Maya are > you running? > >
