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Leveraging NURBS: Alternatives to Boolean, part 2

Leveraging NURBS: Alternatives to Boolean, part 2

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Leveraging NURBS: Alternatives to Boolean, part 2

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- [Instructor] I have my exercise file open already. This is the second part of a look at boolean operations in Grasshopper. In the first video we focused on some of the reasons that boolean operations can fail. In this video we'll look at alternatives to boolean operations, how we can build up the steps that are happening within the boolean operation incrementally within Grasshopper giving us more control and more visibility into why things are working the way that they're working. So here, I have my boolean operation using everything together. This is a mesh sphere that I'm converting into a half edge structure here. So that means that in the half edge structure I have a bunch of curves that are starting in a node and going halfway to the next node. That lets me build up cylinders and spheres and boolean each node individually. And that's why this is succeeding. If I try to boolean everything, it would just be too big and any small failure would kill the entire boolean operation…

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