how to make a hole in a rounded polygon

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# 1 17-03-2004 , 03:51 PM

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Hello

For two days I am trying to do this, but I can't find a way!

I want to cut a hole in this rounded polygon, as to make a place to put flowers inside. So it has to have a small wall and a hole.

https://nier.com.br/arquivos/temp/duvidaMaya.gif

How would you do this??

Please, give me a hint!

Thank you
Daniel

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Last edited by danrocha; 17-03-2004 at 03:54 PM.

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# 2 17-03-2004 , 04:03 PM

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I would try to sput the polygons in 5 and lowerd the one in the midle.

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# 3 17-03-2004 , 04:07 PM

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yup, carefully split the poly to form the edges and then edtrude them down. ALternatively you could just select the faces and scale and extrude them but I fear you may get crappy results if you do that. You could also try a boolean but again you run the risk of crappy results.

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# 4 17-03-2004 , 09:10 PM

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Well thank you all...

I did it and it worked perfectly... user added image

https://nier.com.br/arquivos/temp/duvidaMaya2.gif

Thing are a little messy there, but for now it's what I need...

Sometimes we need just a little push to move forward!
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