MINTY1974 opened this issue on Apr 10, 2004 ยท 4 posts
MINTY1974 posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 6:17 AM
Hi all. I just got a free copy of carrara 1.1 with pc world magazine and I would like to know how to make boolean objects? Any ideas? Cheers Minty P.S. If anybody knows of any free tutorials online that would be helpful too.
sailor_ed posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 7:09 AM
This is a good news, bad news situation. The bad news: thru version 2 boolean operations were unreliable and generally considered unusable or usable with difficulty. Most people concentrated on workarounds. The good news: in version 3.03 (the current version) boolean operations work quite well and are useful modeling tools in both the assembly room and vertex modeler. I hope you will persevere with Carrara as it is a fine program and a very good value. I am not so knowledgeable about tutorials but there are several on the Eovia site for a start. Sorry not to be more helpful.. Ed
Patrick_210 posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 7:43 AM
Create 2 objects, overlap them. Select them both and then you should see "3D Boolean" available under the "EDIT" menu. Click on that and it will give you options combining. However Sailor Ed is right, early Carrara Booleans were not very reliable. Patrick Tuten
mateo_sancarlos posted Sat, 10 April 2004 at 12:53 PM
Check the area of overlap to make sure both objects have similar polygon density prior to attempting any boolean operation in C1.