Boolean trouble

[robcat2075]

In this model the green shape is a Boolean "cutter" and should conceal everything inside it.

Can anyone detect an obvious reason that it is not completely hiding the portion of the gray S that is inside it?

There don't seem to be any internal patches and all the normals are outward-facing.

S-BooleanTest.prj

 

[robcat2075]

Here's a turn-around showing the fragment flicking in and out.

 

[Tom]

I tried moving the boolean piece around slightly but it's still flicking. Hmmmmmm...

 

I'm stumped...

[serg2]

S-BooleanTest2.prj

[Tom]

Whatever you did seemed to work.

 

Did you adjust the model in some way?

[robcat2075]

Serg added a bone to be a parent of the cutter bone and attached the mesh of the S to the new bone.

Thanks, Serg!

[KingVidiot]

this is a cool project

I tried the other day to do a Boolean cutter from scratch to make a group of 3d text engrave into a surface, but I couldn't find the setting any more on the Mac version -  haven't used it for years but I was a multi-platform feature unless that changed

I searched all the bone properties in the workspace and nothing, but I remember using it anywhere as it's in the standard manual and not listed as a PC-only feature

anyone know if the Boolean Cutter feature is on Mac and PC or just PC?

I'll try opening this project on the Mac to see if it works

[robcat2075]

The mesh of the cutter and the mesh of the object need to have their own bones.

The bone for the cutter mesh needs to be a child of the bone for the object mesh, and "Boolean Cutter" should be set to "ON"

SimpleBoolean.prj

[KingVidiot]

silly me, I see what I missed - thank you sir