Maya for 3D Printing - Rapid Prototyping
In this course we're going to look at something a little different, creating technically accurate 3D printed parts.
# 1 27-12-2004 , 07:43 PM

Boolean problem..

With the tree frog tutorial it says, the 2 parts should overlap, then select it hit enter, then select the other one hit enter then do :

Polygons > Boolean > Union

But with me it does not go green, and i get an error, when i select them both and do union they dissapear ? Anybody knows what im doing wrong ?


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# 2 27-12-2004 , 07:49 PM
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Post up the file and i'lll have a look at it when i get back later on tonight.


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# 3 28-12-2004 , 02:05 AM
# 4 28-12-2004 , 03:50 PM
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I think the problem is with the geometry of the frog. Theres some bad geometry, so i just did a polygons clean up, and the boolean worked fine.


There's nothing normal about normals. In FACT i think the are abnormal.
# 5 28-12-2004 , 04:56 PM

Originally posted by antiant
I think the problem is with the geometry of the frog. Theres some bad geometry, so i just did a polygons clean up, and the boolean worked fine.

:o How do you clean the polygons ?

# 6 28-12-2004 , 05:11 PM
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Ok fixed it... you had a few extra faces on your mesh now booleans should work fine... Make sure you have keep faces together under your poly tool option box as well for later on.

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# 7 28-12-2004 , 05:27 PM
Thanks but i still get the same error ? user added image

# 8 28-12-2004 , 05:49 PM
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Really work the first time for me... Not sure what the problem is....


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# 9 28-12-2004 , 05:52 PM
user added image Ah it works i did not select both of them, thought they would dissapear then again but now they stay :angry:

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