Editable Poly

[glorybound]

I remember, back in the day, being able to delete parts of a polygon. So, I would join my roofs, and I was able to delete the plane the goes inside, but it's not working anymore.

[glorybound]

boolean function!

[rivoli]

you can also slice the poly (once you merged the various parts), collapse the stack or add an edit poly modifier, and then delete the polygons you don't need. it's a quick and dirty way, and it can mess up the topology (it surely will), but it may work..

[glorybound]

yes. I do that often, but roofs is needs to be a little more precise. I remember boolean being a nightmare, always crashing, so I avoided it. it worked good for my rook.

[Neilg]

Cut, quickslice?

If the plane is at a crazy angle which you cant use front/top for - press ctrl c to make a camera, change type to free, align to plane (with rotation), local rotate 90 to face the edge of it, press u to go to orthographic, z to center view then use quickslice snapping to either end.

You can record a macro of that to make it a (mostly) 1-click process, although it's a 10 second string so unless you're doing 50+ super obscure cuts I doubt you need to.

[glorybound]

I'll try that, thanks

[voltron7]

Cut, quickslice?

If the plane is at a crazy angle which you cant use front/top for - press ctrl c to make a camera, change type to free, align to plane (with rotation), local rotate 90 to face the edge of it, press u to go to orthographic, z to center view then use quickslice snapping to either end.

You can record a macro of that to make it a (mostly) 1-click process, although it's a 10 second string so unless you're doing 50+ super obscure cuts I doubt you need to.

great tip cg!

[grantwarwick]

Pro Boolean?