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To: lightwave-l@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Booleans
In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 24 Jun 94 15:01:07 -0700. <Pine.3.89.9406241426.A3498-0100000@netcom5>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 94 17:31:07 EDT
From: Mark Thompson <mark@westford.ccur.com>
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> One thing you can do to speed up boolean operation greatly is to only
> select those polygons on the "cutee" that will be affected by your
> background cutter. If Modeler has to include all of the unused polygons
> in its calculations, it could take a long time...
Does this actually work reliably? It has been my experience that when only
a subset of the polygons are used, Modeler can screw up the boolean operation
when the selected polygons do not represent a fully closed surface (which
Modeler needs to do the operation properly).
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