Cutting out shapes?
 

HI Im new to Maya, I have just started using Maya's tutorial and now Im trying to make other objects, I have decided to take up the project of recreating a theater stage however I have hit a bump...My problem is that I cant and dont know how to cut simple shapes out of objects, for instance Im trying to cut a circle out of a square...So please could someone help me with this it would be much appreciated.

What you do is:

1) move the cylinder so that it overlaps/ intersects the cube
2) select one object (the cube), then hold shift and select the other one (the cylinder)
3) In the toolbar at the top go to Polygons/ Booleans/ Difference

And that should do it :) Try experimenting with the Union and Intersection settings and which item you select first; you'll get a lot of results to play with!

Good luck!

Thank You!
 

Wow that worked great thank you so much for the help!
I will play around with it and post my results later.

Thank you again I really Appreciate it and especially the fast response!

No prob mate!
Hope to see your work soon on the WIP board!

Previous work...
 

Well this isnt the theater one but this is my previous work for now, what do you think for a beginner?

Another...
 

and this one...

your works are great for a newbie , but dont make it a habit of using Booleans too much, since they produce quite horrible results sometimes...

i also liked Booleans before but now i hate them cus they became a pain in the butt

Thanks Im sure I'll get the hang of the diffrent things in maya, not sure what you mean by boolean exactly, I know it in a whole as I program but animation side...is it diffrent?

Booleans tend to disappear sometimes, when Booleaned twice

http://forums.simplymaya.com/showthr...threadid=25000

check this thread then you'll know more about Booleans

Dude, those are some nice effects! I myself am quite new to Maya and I wouldn't have a clue how to make those effects. Nice work, keep it up! :)

And thanks, DotNet for that link; it's proved useful to me :)