Combine/Subtract Models (Booleans/Pathfinder)
Booleans are the 3D equivalent of pathfinder, allowing you to take two shapes and combine or subtract their volumes from each other. For example, taking a cube then using a cylinder to 'cut' a hole through the cube.
AdminJeanette Mathews
(Product Manager, Dimension)
shared this idea
Hello everyone! The Dimension team is very interested in the topic of creation/modeling/editing as a whole. We haven’t added any creation so far, but are actively researching this area. We have a new survey on modeling and editing and would love your thoughts on the topic!
18 comments
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Anonymous
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I would love to be able to warp and manipulate shapes. I would also love to be able to cut out shapes from the objects. Is this possible?
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Anonymous
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would be simple to cut a hole in a solid object
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Chelsi Peters
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This feature would be fabulous! It's an easy way to create a quick model such as a bowl, etc. So that you don't get funky textures and decals once we've created the Boolean object correctly it may be worthwhile to "bake" the polygons.
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Ares Hovhannesyan
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We need booleans for creating free geometry object quickly without any special tool.
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Anonymous
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Then what exactly are the add and subtract tool icons for? I was hoping for booleans. But I don't get them to work. Anyone?
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Dale Roberts
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Wouldnt it be nice if you could draw a smaller less deep in height circle inside another circle and then click a button to allow the small circle to minus back the large one. Resulting in a cut out.
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Nick
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Booleans! Yes!!!!
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Nick
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I just learned that i can export a photoshop 3D layer as a OBJ file and import it as a new 3D model for DimensionCC. This program just got 1million times better and it took me too long to find this. it should be in the tutorial.
It would be nice if there was a way to crop shapes, like maybe cut a spuere in half (in dimensioncc) byselecting 2 models and using some sort of path find type tool where it delets 1 shape and the area that is interesected.
Either that or some sort of difform tool to difform shapes in program. -
Corban Lindsay
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Merge 3d objects together
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@Byron - there is a seperate idea for effects like this. https://feedback.adobedimension.com/forums/552559/suggestions/31410337 . Feel free to vote there!
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Bryon Finkel
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How about some "deformers" (Taper, twist, lathe, etc)?
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Øystein Gutu
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Intersect between two objects to cut away and modefy obects in a simple manner!
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Anonymous
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Would really like a feature, which lets you "carve-out" a model by a different model. Kinda like, how the pathfinder in Ai works
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Anonymous
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Can I substract the Egg from the cylinder?
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Daniel Badde
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Boolean operations are like a basic 3d editing tool. You can build virtually any structure you can imagine by combining and subtracting basic forms to or from each other. You don't need to look for a preset, or maybe the object you think of doesn't exist yet.
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Great suggestion - why do you think this would be useful?
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Daniel Badde
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Combine two models (add/subtract) to get a new one
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Anonymous
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Boolean more than one asset and shell feature would be awesome