Regarding Autogrid:

I placed all these squares on both the base and turbosmoothed models with the Autogrid tool.  It worked as expected each time, as it placed them on each poly face normal.  I don't see any unusual behavior going on, even in the turbosmoothed version.  It's using the smoothed normals, but that's to be expected.

Does Maya have a similar tool?  If so, how does it differ/improve upon this feature?

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