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# 1 30-10-2006 , 02:24 PM
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Boolean woes !??!!

Can anyone tell me why when I perform a boolean/union operation on my two polygon objects they both vanish ???

Confused ???
 
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# 2 31-10-2006 , 12:36 PM
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Sometimes it's a software glitch.

Try displaying the normals for your objects and make sure they are facing the same direction.

I always have disappearing objects when the objects are too complicated to be booleaned.

Do let us know the solution if you solve it.
 
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# 3 31-10-2006 , 01:09 PM
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On top of checking your normals, you can run a poly cleanup and select to fix all (non-manifold geom, faces with 0 surface area, and, non plannar faces, and lamina faces) also turn your border edges on in either CPD or the attribute editor turn it to like 5 so you can see the borders easily and make sure you dont have any unmerged verts floating around.
 
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# 4 31-10-2006 , 08:31 PM
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Thanks for the response guys but I was reading the forums the day I posted my question and found the answer. My object ( a tube) was open ended, once I closed off that end it worked perfectly.

Thanks again
 
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