3dmax - booleen question.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:28 am

I want to subtract the all purple objects from the cylinder in order to make a sort of wheel, but when i try it cocks up and won't let me, i can take a slice out of the purple things if i subtract the wheel from them, but when i try to subtract them from the cylinder, they just form a union. Are the shapes too complicated? if they are how else could i create the object?

Post by **blood.angel** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:32 am

First group all the purples, then boolean them.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:39 am

I miss being able to fuck around with 3dmax at work

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 12:47 am

woot, thanks b.a:

Post by **rep** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:08 am

LMAO.

Using a boolean operation is like asking for a messy mesh. You would have been better to construct the thing as a spline first, and then extrude.

Is this a drive wheel on a steam engine?

Edit: Mod this to LEM.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 1:29 am

It crossed my mind, but I couldn't be arsed to make it out of splines, I'm not too fussed about messy meshes, i dont have to do anything else with the wheel. I'm quickly designing a bridge for a competition at uni, i thought i'd knock out a few computer renders of my design. The wheels are based off an image i found of a winch used in a dockyard.