Template:Maya2017 Polygon Booleans

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Booleans

You can find the boolean tools under the Mesh menu
There are three types of boolean operations: Union, Difference and Intersection
Experiment with different settings under the options box if you don't get the result you expected

Boolean operations can be performed on two overlapping polygon objects. Select both objects and go to Mesh > Booleans.

There are 3 options:

Union
You keep the part of the objects that is part of one or both of the objects
Difference
You keep the part of the object first selected that doesn't overlap with the object that has been selected second
Intersection
You keep the part of both objects that overlap

When you're using the union or the intersect option it doesn't matter in which order you select the objects. For the difference option, the second object you select will be subtracted from the first object you select.

When you're using the difference option it's possible you want to make a lot of holes in the object, like in the example on the right. It will be rather time-consuming to do them all one at a time and sometimes the geometry does odd things when doing it that way. So if you want to subtract these shapes all in once, you have to combine them first (select all the objects you want to subtract, then go to: Mesh > Combine). Now select the object you want to subtract from, then select the combined objects you want to subtract, then go to Mesh > Booleans > Difference:

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