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# 1 11-04-2004 , 09:13 AM

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On more than one occasion, while doing polygon booleans I get and error dealing with ResolveNonSolidShell and both of my geometries dissapear. Has anyone encounted this before? I tried doing some testing to see what was making it do this, but I'm not getting anything user added image

Any help would be appreciated.

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# 2 11-04-2004 , 11:31 AM

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make sure both objects are intersecting properly, and careful about the order of selection

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# 3 11-04-2004 , 04:16 PM

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I know for sure they're intersecting and I'm selecting them right. Whats weird is both pieces are dissapearing. Any other theories?

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# 4 11-04-2004 , 04:56 PM

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yea make sure their normals are facing the same direction

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# 5 11-04-2004 , 11:13 PM

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Nope

That was one of the things I checked and I just double checked it now. Normals are good to go, but both objects are still dissapearing. I'm stumped.

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# 6 12-04-2004 , 04:05 PM

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I was actually having some Boolean glitches occuring as well. I tried to commit a Boolean on two Polygon objects and when I try to apply it, the entire scene disappeared from the viewpanel.

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# 7 12-04-2004 , 04:09 PM

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Kinda sounds like a graphic card problem...

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# 8 12-04-2004 , 09:47 PM

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If it was a hardware problem Kurt, would it still give me an error in maya? Every time it happens I get a ResolveNonSolidShell message. Oh, an I've got a GeForce4 with all the latest drivers user added image

This is turning out to be harder than I thought it would.

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# 9 12-04-2004 , 11:06 PM

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still thinking on what it could be.... my booleans worked fine used them today....

Are you sure both objects are definatly insecting one another?

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# 10 12-04-2004 , 11:32 PM

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My booleans work fine as well, except in these few instances. I've done about 10 different tests and the boolean always works, except when I try in on this specific Geometry. I've attached the file where it isnt working. As you'll see trying to do a difference boolean (subtracting the stretched cube from the other model) results both disappearing, or it does for me. Could someone possilbly take a look at it and see if it does the same for someone else?

Edit:: To clear it up, if the objects were'nt intersecting, then only the second object selected would disappear, not both. So I'm sure it isnt that.

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# 11 13-04-2004 , 12:02 AM

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Ok dude.... figured out what was wrong.. even though your geometry edges looked like they where all closed off, you had a few edges that where not merged and had 1 or 2 extra faces..

This was causing maya not to make the operation work.. Heres a file i did for you a added a few edges hope you dont mind... worked first time for me chang it anyway you need. And you mght want to add a few more edges to make the goe nice and clean with quads you have a few 5 side faces still.

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# 12 13-04-2004 , 12:08 AM

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Awesome! I knew it had to be something stupid. Thanks a bunch for looking at it. Yeah, the geometry hasn't been cleaned up yet, had planned on doing that after I got everything made. Anyways, thanks again!

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