Uninhibited free-form 3D modeling tools like those found only in products costing 20 to 50 times more. There are no limits on complexity, degree, or size beyond those of your hardware. Hopefully V4 will not have as many problems as V3 in this regard.Rhino can create, edit, analyze, document, render, animate, and translate NURBS* curves, surfaces, and solids, point clouds, and polygon meshes. I often use it when I have 5-30 Booleans I wish to do simultaneously. Its a bit pricey, but has saved me countless hours in the past year. Npower is a powerful plug-in and particularly useful for fillets (nearly always water tight) and booleans of all sorts). V2 supposedly (I never used it) was better at Booleans than V3. I’ve also read, but never tried, exporting the file as a V2, then import back into V3 and boolean then. This is just one example where the Rhino toolset isn’t set up to deal with it. If thats not an option, you can split one pipe, then BU each “half”. One that Rhino has problems with is pipes of indentical diameter with a perfectly aligned orrientation. I rarely need to opt for the third option. If thats OK, and it still doesn’t work, I’ll go for the Npower Power Booleans. If it doesn’t work, I look for the obvious causes (including checking for proper intersections). When I have Booleans to do, I always try the native Rhino option first. The boolean union Does work on two coplanar surfaces, but often creates some nasty geometry I wouldn’t be suprised if you looked at the script for that if that wasn’t exactly what it was. This just trims off the middle and joins it. If there is nothing to trim then you should use the Join command.Īn extremely simple example would be creating a box, a sphere, making them intersect and using the booleanUnion. The use for the boolean operations is just to help you with quickly splitting, deleting, and joining objects all in one step.

Now you see a little bit why not to use Boolean operations on nonsolid object. now undo until just before your boolean. run the mergeAllSurfaces command on that object now. Now do your boolean union, should look fine for now.

fill the remaining corner using the _SrfPt command to make roughly 1 surface with one odd corner. create another plane connecting it on one corner, but only roughly half way. If you would like to see an example of what it creates then follow these steps: Do NOT use boolean for anything but solids.

Tutorial rhinoceros 6 mesh booleans