topic Re: Boolean operation with poser model in Modeling

Boolean operation with poser model

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:17:57 GMT

Any suggestion, how to get poser model (hand) work in boolean operation?
Model itself imported fine to AC and it looks ok, but when I try to cut a part of the wall with it, nothing happens.
Or any idea or another way to make hands' mark in concrete (by modelling it)?

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Dwight — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:12:44 GMT

I confirm that a poser/3ds/Archicad object won't do an SEO on a wall.

The Alfaville figures do an SEO and have reasonable hands.

This is a commercial object.... Objects Online, perhaps?

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:13:54 GMT

If the poser model is made with the COONS command, which they
often are, then they are a hollow surface and cannot participate
in a SEO. You will have to model your hand with solid elements.
Peter Devlin

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Djordje — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:03:21 GMT

Did you try opening the script and adding

MODEL SOLID

At the beginning of the script?

Just a shot in the dark ...

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Dwight — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 06:02:31 GMT

Okay. Meet my friend.

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Thomas Holm — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:07:00 GMT

Dwight wrote:
Okay. Meet my friend.

OK Dwight, with friends like that, who are your enemies?

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:09:15 GMT

I couldn't get the model filled (putting that SOLID MODEL to the script). I guess you meant that same with your friend's portrait, Dwight

What program makes solid models? AC does (or does it?), but it's not useful in making body parts...

I could get a sort of cut with "cutting with roofs" and rendered the inner side of hand, but there are some problems making the surrounding material and also texture is a bit complicated on hand's surface....maybe it's better to make the whole thing in photoshop.

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Dwight — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:23:51 GMT

It looks like only certain parts of the Alfaville figures can do SEO.

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Dwight — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:29:37 GMT

Just the shoes on Alfaville Mark" the suit guy"

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Link — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 21:54:12 GMT

I'm not a GDL specialist, but maybe there is a way to save your model (or just part of it) as a window and change the code to make it a niche?

Just a thought.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Dwight — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:23:19 GMT

The command is WALLNICHE or CUTFORM. Are these new in ArchiCAD 10?

I'm thinking that our poster needs to replicate a hand with thin slabs to form a contour of the hand - a flapjack hand - and tilt it upward when saving as an object, using the object to SEO the wall.

But good luck getting this amount of definition:

Re: Boolean operation with poser model

Link — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:30:06 GMT

Right - that's what I meant. Save part of the body as a part. Then save the part with a 'wallniche' ID as a window/niche. Then whack it into the wall.

It should have the same geometry as the original part, but I am probably just dreaming that it would work.

Cheers,
Link.