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GUMP
03-25-2003, 07:26 PM
Just a simple nut and bolt kind of thing im trying to achieve.
I choose the nut then the bolt and then polygons/booleans/difference and end up with my boolean but it also does something strange with my geomotry. Have a look at the attached image and please help...thnx
plotz
03-25-2003, 08:39 PM
Do you have any history on either of the objects involved? Sometimes history can cause some un-expected results with booleans.
Swami Gattas
03-25-2003, 08:59 PM
Try the "clean up polygons"

Maya polybooleans are somewhat quirky sometimes :P
McDonut
03-26-2003, 12:09 AM
I'd say dont even bother with booleans in maya...
mta3d
03-26-2003, 10:40 AM
delete history, cleanup polygons as suggested. Also save and quit the app, reload and try the boolean again, thats worked for me at times. strange? nah ;)
GUMP
03-26-2003, 05:38 PM
What a nightmare that is ust to get a
decent boolean. Allthough your suggestions
did work it was still rediculous to have to
jump through hoops in order for it to work
correctly.
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