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["Sebastien Loriot (GeometryFactory)" <>]

On 09/08/2013 06:51 PM, 

 wrote:
> For which apologies in advance!
>
> I can load and view the example .off files into the polyhedron demo. How
> do I actually apply the Boolean operations to objects? I’d naively
> assumed that if I loaded pipe and cube, selected both and then chose
> Booleans ops >> difference I’d get a new object which was exactly that …
>
> If I convert both to NEF polyhedrons first the demo prompts with ‘You
> need to call the operation “Convert to nef polyhedron” in the menu
> &Boolean operations’ … the console shows this:
>
> Convert polyhedron to nef polyhedron...ok (340 ms)
>
> Convert polyhedron to nef polyhedron...ok (491 ms)
>
> Convert polyhedron to nef polyhedron...ok (19 ms)
>
> Convert polyhedron to nef polyhedron...ok (341 ms)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> TIA.
The conversion to nef polyhedra creates new items that you need to 
select by clicking in the A/B column. The boolean operation will be done
using A and B.

Sebastien.