boolean problem. sonictag can u help me?
Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 6:30 pm
hey guys, SnaF here. i've been modeling a building, and that has gone very well. up until now. i need to boolean windows out of the building, and have already done 7 openings. these had no problems, maybe 1 or 2 faces missing. but now, when i boolean a shape out of the wall, all the faces are missing where it was booleaned.
the steps i follow are these:
i create a line using corner and corner, then i extrude the line into a shape so that it has more depth than the wall will. i convert this shape into an editable mesh, then i go under vertex, weld selected, and change the threshold to 1.0. i then select the building, and choose geometry, and change it to compound object rather than standard primitives. i then click on boolean, click "pick operand b", then click on the extruded shape. when the shape is cut out of the wall, there are then missing faces where the shape was cut.
these are my paramaters for Operation:
Subtracion [A-B]
Display:
Result
update:
always.
can anyone help me? maybe sonictag?? i'm having trouble with this, and it's the only thing preventing me from passing the file on to my team member so we can get a this map made.
note: when i have tried to solve the problem of missing faces, i have gone to face---> create. but this disallows me to create faces... are my paramaters set correctly?
EDIT: nevermind. i figured out a solution. it works quite well. i just make the shapes that i need booleaned, attach them together, then follow the necessary steps.
the steps i follow are these:
i create a line using corner and corner, then i extrude the line into a shape so that it has more depth than the wall will. i convert this shape into an editable mesh, then i go under vertex, weld selected, and change the threshold to 1.0. i then select the building, and choose geometry, and change it to compound object rather than standard primitives. i then click on boolean, click "pick operand b", then click on the extruded shape. when the shape is cut out of the wall, there are then missing faces where the shape was cut.
these are my paramaters for Operation:
Subtracion [A-B]
Display:
Result
update:
always.
can anyone help me? maybe sonictag?? i'm having trouble with this, and it's the only thing preventing me from passing the file on to my team member so we can get a this map made.
note: when i have tried to solve the problem of missing faces, i have gone to face---> create. but this disallows me to create faces... are my paramaters set correctly?
EDIT: nevermind. i figured out a solution. it works quite well. i just make the shapes that i need booleaned, attach them together, then follow the necessary steps.