Boolean Union plus merge all faces in one command....?

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Anyway besides a micro…?

Brian

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Hi Brian- currently no. It has come up as a wish a few times.however and it is on the pile… do you need help making a macro for this?

-Pascal

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Hi All,

I managed to find a macro here:

Seems to work really well however it is not a “besides a macro” solution.

Hope it helps,

-Rupert

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Hi Pascal.

When you mention merge all faces:
Currently this merges only planar faces, whereas most solid modeling software is able to merge (automatically) several other simple surfaces, like cylindrical surfaces, spheres ecc.
Even trimmed surfaces that derive from identical Nurbs surfaces.
This would be great to build cleaner models and would be a big timesaver for mirrored modeling.
Maybe something to aim for in Version 6?

Norbert

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Yes ! … + 1

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Yep, currently there is no tool for merging other than planar faces. The request is on the pile…

thanks,

-Pascal

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Was this ever implemented? Its a pain to have to constantly MAF every time i join or Boolean Union,

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Yes this is the current behavior in Rhino 8, in that sense that planar faces that are part of the boolean get merged when possible

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Well that’s 1 useful change I could use in R8…I’m sure there others.

Brian

PS I’m the OP to this request at least in this post. Just a user name change based on which system I log in on I guess.

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Hi thanks. Is there a setting to enable/disable this?

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I can’t find the YT right now, but an option to turn this on/off will be in Rhino 8.12

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