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Booleans About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Booleans // Archive: Tech Forum 1  |   Order by default Post by Burisman // May 20, 2007, 8:15pm Burisman Total Posts: 128 Booleans, I try to avoid them - because people say so - but I still use them, a lot, to drill holes for windows, or combine shapes etc. In tS 7.5 that means switching a lot between workspace and modeler. Unless there is some smart way to do it, perhaps using the LE? Is there? Otherwise I would ask to port this functionality to the workspace asap, I miss my little boolean bubbles there. The normal-sweep is cool though, it works very fast & intuitive. Post by Jack Edwards // May 20, 2007, 8:52pm Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 For making holes and joining meshes that are part of the same object, you can use the polygon bridge/blend tool. Alas booleans is one of the things we still have to go to model side for. :( -Jack. Post by Burisman // May 20, 2007, 9:11pm Burisman Total Posts: 128 Thanks again Jack. You're always very quick, and helpful :) I have used the polygon bridge, but for the task at hand (drill a number of holes in walls of an old country house, to insert window-frames and windows, of different sizes) that would be an awkward procedure. The wall just is a big rectangle :o I haven't use the blend tool though, and will look into it. In another, for example, project I need gothic windows. So normally I make the pointed arch by booleaning 2 circles, and then boolean in a rectangle, for the body of the window, and then again use that as a drill and boolean myself through the wall again, creating a row of windows :p I haven't found a way to do that in the workspace yet. Still, it's very basic when creating illustrations for cultural multimedia. I trust that the team will eventually port that to the workspace too, now the new architecture is in place. Thanks again Post by Jack Edwards // May 21, 2007, 4:22am Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 You can use the polydraw tool to draw the outlines of the windows, then use the bridge tool to connect the newly created polys. ;) If you're planning to export you'll want to make sure to add extra edges to maintain quads. -Jack.

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