How to fillet between surfaces?

[sat24]

I would like to be able to fillet ie. smooth out the sharp edge (marked by red circles) - however, I am not sure which modifier I should use to do this. what you are seeing is a compound object created by subtracting a bunch of spheres from a chamfered box object.

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[photonC]

I would Chamfer the edges.

[natty]

hi

Convert it to a poly and edit it, by chamfering a couple of time's ..

[sat24]

Did that but I get slits



Why am I getting those slits?

BTW, here's what the wireframe looks like:



i can see some ugliness going on, but not sure why.

[percydaman]

well you have some obvious mesh issues. should have rotated the sphere before boolean. Or better, dont boolean. You can create that object without boolean

This took like 3 minutes to make. Its all about the polys.

[gogator100]

Boolean is a troublesom all the time.

[DaForce]

Boolean is complete crap at the best of the time. Power Booleans is better but its still a boolean.

Basically a chamfer operation requires good surrounding mesh otherwise you will get into the situation you are now facing.

[ene.xis]

try to weld the vertices.....maybe some coincident verts....

[DaForce]

ene.xis:
nah wont help....he has to remodel/remake

[percydaman]

you could clean it up. but would take like 10 times longer then it would take to just remodel it correctly.

[DaForce]

True that, but even then it still wouldnt be anywhere near as good as doing it properly.

Damn booleans. Its a trap for newbies. I bet Discreet have a good laugh each time they hear about someone using them. I reckon booleans were some sort of dare "go on Dave i dare you to put that crap into the final release of 3dsmax" , "your on" says Dave, "and i will raise you with substandard nurbs"

**note**
CHange Dave for the name of someone who works for discreet ^_^

[percydaman]

lol. why does everyone have to pick on dave?

[Dynedain]

You know, explaining how you did it in 3 minutes would go a lot farther in educating newbies than simply saying you can do it in 3 minutes. Not telling them how doesn't help them learn to get off booleans. I've been off booleans for a year now and I'm still struggling with how to create shapes like that one, so I'd like to learn as well.

[percydaman]

good point. I sometimes still boolean when Im feeling lazy. I guess I just assumed it was that way for others. Believe me, Im not a modelling expert. I just started using E poly just about a month ago because I was rather intimidated about using something other then the editable mesh Ive been using for years.

[DaForce]

i anyones keen i could knock up a little video tut a bit later today ( a few hours) . SHowing how to make that box using poly modeling. Quite easy.

Or should i leave that in your court Percy