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How to boolean (substract) many morphs at one time

Anonymous
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Hello
I have many morph elements need to be substracted by one source morph,
but "substract tool" can only substract one element once --- any advice,
(PS, for simplicity, I don't want SEO)

Thanks
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Barry Kelly
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You can 'Union' those multiple morphs into one morph - but they will no longer be separate morphs.
This shouldn't be a problem if you aren't going to change or move them.
You can split them again later if need be, but that might be a tedious process.

I would just SEO.
Then you know the connection is live and will adjust if your morphs are moved.

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Barry Kelly
Moderator
You can 'Union' those multiple morphs into one morph - but they will no longer be separate morphs.
This shouldn't be a problem if you aren't going to change or move them.
You can split them again later if need be, but that might be a tedious process.

I would just SEO.
Then you know the connection is live and will adjust if your morphs are moved.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
i7-10700 @ 2.9Ghz, 32GB ram, GeForce RTX 2060 (6GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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OK
though there will be a bit complicated to modify again,
Thanks Kerry
Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
Community Admin
Here is what you can do:

1. Select all Morph elements you want to subtract from, select them as Targets in the SEO Palette, and Subtract the other Morph element from them in a single step. Now, there will be an associative relationship between each of them and the Morph that was subtracted from them.
2. Now, select all the target Morhps again, and use the "Design > Convert Selection to Morph(s)'" command. Each Morph will be converted into a separate Morph element (even if their geometries collide in 3D), with the SEO applied, but no longer associated with the operator Morph element.
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