Often happens when you copy paste a script from outlook or another email app that changes the quotes on you On Dec 4, 2014 2:41 AM, "Cesar Saez" <cesa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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? >> >>
