From the course: Rhino: Modeling for 3D Printing
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Boolean troubleshooting: Part 2 - Rhino Tutorial
From the course: Rhino: Modeling for 3D Printing
Boolean troubleshooting: Part 2
- [Instructor] There are a few more limitations with the boolean command that we should consider when troubleshooting a fail. Here are a list of some of the most common issues that will cause a boolean to fail. The objects don't intersect. The objects have coplanar faces. The objects have coincident seams. Not all the geometry is closed. And, or one or more of the object has messy geometry. So let's take a look at a few model examples to better understand each one of these limitations. First off, it's probably really easy to troubleshoot if your objects aren't intersecting. So if I were to try to merge both of these into one solid, it can't complete the command, and it will tell me that the objects do not intersect. So in this example, it's pretty obvious that they don't intersect, but in other examples, it might be a little less apparent. Another thing to look out for is coplanar faces. So, what that means is if I were to…
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