 | | | A Better Boolean Bonanza | A Better Boolean Bonanza 2003-12-07 - By Dean Carter
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I've always been disappointed with Carrara's boolean operations.
When I downloaded the 3.0.1 update I noticed in the Read Me file that
various boolean issues had been addressed. So I thought I give it
another try.
To my surprise boolean operations seem to be working *much* better
than before. One test after another produced objects with no
noticeable artifacts. Only on one model (a large cube with 11
sequential boolean operations) did I encounter any stray vertices or
open polygons (which were repairable). Even subtracting a curved text
object from an ellipsoid was successful (though it took a loooong
time to calculate).
I've posted an example of my results here:
http://kryptonite.ece.ucsb.edu/pictures/3D-Modeling/BetterBooleans.jpg
A combination of primitive, spline, and vertex objects were used. I'm
running on a Mac G5 with OS X 10.3.1.
These tests would have failed miserably with previous versions of Carrara.
I be interested to hear if others are finding a similar improvement.
-Dean
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