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Leveraging NURBS: Alternatives to Boolean, Part 3

Leveraging NURBS: Alternatives to Boolean, Part 3

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Leveraging NURBS: Alternatives to Boolean, Part 3

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- [Instructor] I have my exercise file open already. In this video, we're going to focus on alternatives to Boolean operations. Here, I have a large Boolean operation. I'm starting off with a spherical mesh. I'm converting it into a half-edge structure. Half-edge structure means there are curves that are starting at each node and going halfway to the next node. This half-edge structure allows me to use data trees to separate out each individual node into its own Boolean operation. So that's the first part of the strategy, breaking apart a huge Boolean operation into a bunch of smaller ones. That isolates any failure, so if one node fails, it doesn't blow up the entire solution, but there's still some issues. The solution is taking 4.3 seconds to calculate, which is not optimal if you're handing this off to a designer who's making changes to the mesh and looking for quick cycles times. And by the way, I'm seeing this 4.3 seconds because under display, canvas widget, I have my profiler…

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