Boolean operations

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Every time I am feeling confident with Rhino it makes me humble again. I am trying to build a core that I can use as a subtraction from another solid. I am using cylinders, spheres and rectangles to build the object. Depiction below:

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. After much manipulation I have been successful at joining what you see in yellow but the remining solid will not join as I get Boolean Union failed nor will it join the two pieces.

I wish there was a dialogue that came up to tell me why it failed or a tutorial that poped up to tell me how to fix the problem as I am expending significant time trying to troubleshoot this issue.

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Please post the model. Someone will be able to help.

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The model LE CH build.3dm (120.3 KB)

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You have two closed polysrfs. On the ‘big’ one, remove the flat faces. Then explode the ‘cigar’ member and split with the ‘big’ one. Then they will join.

clk

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ChrisK,

Is there a tutorial or manual that you could recommend to help me familiarize myself with Boolean operations in Rhino.

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You could start here…

–Mitch

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What I described had no Boolean functions. Remove flat faces with extractsrf, delete flat faces with delete, explode cigar with explode, split remains with split.

I don’t like Booleans.

clk

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You are in a classic Boolean failure situation. This situation is described in the Help. http://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/information/troubleshoot_boolean_operations.htm