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Cheap program for super-boolean welds?

NightmareHeroNightmareHero Posts: 18
edited December 1969 in Product Suggestions

Is there any program for $70 to $50 or less that does super-boolean welds to turn primative modeled designs into unimeshes?

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  • SickleYieldSickleYield Posts: 7,634
    edited January 2015

    That is not usually a good workflow for base modeling, but Blender does do booleans and is free.

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  • stem_athomestem_athome Posts: 518
    edited December 1969

    With polygon boolean operations, you will always have some issues.

    For your price_range, I would suggest you have a look at Groboto. http://www.groboto.com/v3/
    You can get Groboto V3.3 for $40 http://www.groboto.com/v3/Store/Offers_3/index.html

    Be aware. Groboto development is probably finished now. The developers moved to creating a plugin (MeshFushion) for Modo. That now appears to be their main concern.

  • jpb06tjpb06t Posts: 272
    edited December 1969

    Steve athome said:
    Be aware. Groboto development is probably finished now. The developers moved to creating a plugin (MeshFushion) for Modo. That now appears to be their main concern.

    He wrote that he is seriously ill and that he is dedicating 100% to the Modo plugin.

    Blender booleans since the inclusion of the Carve library are pretty good.

  • stem_athomestem_athome Posts: 518
    edited December 1969

    latego said:
    He wrote that he is seriously ill and that he is dedicating 100% to the Modo plugin.Too ill to finish Groboto, but well enough to start / finish a major project (Meshfushion).
    All reasoning aside, Groboto is unlikly to be developt further.

    Blender booleans since the inclusion of the Carve library are pretty good.

    Although Carve CSG is certainly robust (and a number of applications now use that library), unless the user makes sure of edge alignment at trimming boundaries, there will be issues with bad poly flow and a non-watertight mesh. Which leads to (but not limited to ) rendering artifacts.
  • jpb06tjpb06t Posts: 272
    edited December 1969

    Steve athome said:
    latego said:
    He wrote that he is seriously ill and that he is dedicating 100% to the Modo plugin.

    I don't remember the exact disease he said he suffered from, it was a blood disease and the relevant wikipedia page was quite clear: chronic, progressive and eventually, in 10-20 years, fatal. This guys knows the answer to the question "how will I die".

    Going back to booleans, some edge flow refactoring/retopo is inevitable whenever you use booleans, in any application.

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