Geometry-Primitive Editing Question

tomlongmacon

I've attached the shape I'm working on, developed from primitives. What I'm wondering is if I can combine this into a single object and "lose" the intersecting polygons where the spheres enter the cylinder. I wish we had Boolean Addition-Subtraction.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

TL

Sven Dullah

tomlongmacon said:

I've attached the shape I'm working on, developed from primitives. What I'm wondering is if I can combine this into a single object and "lose" the intersecting polygons where the spheres enter the cylinder. I wish we had Boolean Addition-Subtraction.. any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

TL

yup! You can use the geometry editor tool to select and delete the intersecting polygons. To combine them into a single object, export them at base resolution as .obj, then reimport and convert to SubD if needed.

tomlongmacon

Thanks! I'll try that after work.. Any ideas on optimum number of faces on the sphere primitives (to avoid faceted look)?

 

Sven Dullah

tomlongmacon said:

Thanks! I'll try that after work.. Any ideas on optimum number of faces on the sphere primitives (to avoid faceted look)?

 

Hmm, I'd say, for a perfectly smooth sphere, maybe 128 segments/sides. Might get away with less, though.

jestmart

72 (I also like to make the number of segments an even divider of 360) segments is more then enough to get a smooth sphere.  Exporting to object will make the multiple primitives a single object but it will not weld the vertices of the primitives together.

tomlongmacon

I got it, thanks for the help!