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Old 20th June 2006, 11:37 AM   #11
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Default Re: How can i scoop a groove out of a cylinder

This might make more sense:

http://www.ac3d.org/forum/showthread...newpost&t=3533
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Old 20th June 2006, 01:00 PM   #12
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tks a bunch
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Old 24th June 2006, 03:41 PM   #13
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Is this what you had in mind?
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Old 26th June 2006, 12:23 PM   #14
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Cyllinder - Toroid boolean I take it?
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Old 26th June 2006, 12:34 PM   #15
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Yes, It's a toroid-boolean operation.

Sorry, if you guys have already dismissed this idea; I wasn't sure.
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Old 26th June 2006, 12:50 PM   #16
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I wonder if they'll ever come up with a boolean without leaving all the ugly makeshift surfaces they put in there. Five to ten overlapping surfaces, triangulations that don't make sense, it gets really frustrating.
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Old 26th June 2006, 01:31 PM   #17
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I was wondering about this teriod boolean operation. because I have got some models that I want to use this feature on.
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Old 26th June 2006, 01:34 PM   #18
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a toroid is an elipse rotated 360 degrees around an axis so it becomes like a bicycle tire. It was used as operand B in the boolean operation while the cylinder was operand A
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Old 26th June 2006, 01:52 PM   #19
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If you're doing this from scratch (i.e., you're not trying to modify an existing cylinder), I'd recommend using the Revolve tool (i.e., make the profile of the cylinder with the scoop out and revolve it).

Here's a tutorial I made for a tin can than may provide some insight into what I mean: http://supercoldmilk.com/ac3dtut/beginner/can.html . Instead of making the ridges, just make your cylinder with a "c" shaped scoop for a profile. Let me know if that doesn't makes sense.
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Old 26th June 2006, 01:57 PM   #20
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I'm not even going to try to figure out why I didn't just think of that...
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