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From: rcohen@monmouth.com (Robert Cohen)
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Subject: Re: Booleans
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>Hi,
>Just got a question here, Ok when I have a large amount of polygons
>I always leave the part I want to do the operation on visiable while
>the rest of the polys are hidden. This speeds things up. *but* when
>it reaches the 4th and 5th pass it takes forever but the 6th is
>fine. Just curious to why this is. :)
Hi Scott,
I am not sure if I got my facts straight here, but if I recall correctly, the
six passes represent the six plains of boolean space (as in six sides of a
box), each pass working on a different plain. Of course your cutting tool is
going to be overlapped with your object in at least one of those plains,
