Booleans in 3dsmax tips & tricks 

Me too I have to try it

Totally! 3DS max was completely missing out on Boolean modeling- which is a standart thing for Solidworks. This made 3DS Max useless for making prototypes for manufacturing. Why they never bothered fixing it till now?

Really cool

They should of done that 10 years ago. Their boolean was piece of garbage. 1-2 operations, and it simply created hollow holes and orphaned vertices, trash edges, etc etc etc.

Maybe you will have even another surprise. XD

Have you seen my last video about the new retopology tool in 3ds max? I will not use anything else, its a 1 click solution.

sameeeeeeee.. have you fixed it?

nope, they now have the boolean as a modifier so they will forget about this probbably@@zheenahaydari5145

321Green1Fork123 check my video about retopology tool

Check my video about "retopology" with this new tool in max 2021.3 its fast an automatic!

@@andvfx isn't it bad to do it automatically when you're a junior? many job offers ask for good skills for retopology so I don't know if they will accept a tool. Anyway I will take a look to learn more!

@@shiningworld171 Until now retopology was manual just because there was not a good automatic tool to create a retopology. Technology advance, and if something its faster, why not just use it? With retopology you will not get a 100% ready game topology, but will bring you to the 95%. Then you can use the existing manual retopology tools to finish your retopo, but will be way less work than doing it from scratch in most cases.

@@andvfx amazing, I was using topogun but I will start trying the automatic tools too!

Danyal Tareen Or join the beta, and do it automatically. XD

@@andvfx when will Autodesk release that 3ds max version?

@@andvfx the retopo of the new max is not mature it's good but not as good as the quad remesher but I like where you were going with this

Exoside QuadRemesher or just try to join the new 3ds max beta versions, and do it automatically... (as even Eloi said yesterday in the comments).

Chad Voller In boolean the object is just referenced, what it does is just hide the original object from your scene, but you can just unhide it.

Eloi Andaluz Fullà Right, but say you merged in that boolean, or the scene was cleaned up and those hidden objects were deleted, or it was given to you by a freelancer that did a "save selected".

@@chadvoller Right, in this case (not the best), you can copy your boolean, hide all objects on the list except the object you want to extract, and convert to editpoly.

Eloi Andaluz Fullà That works for the mesh, but not for the pivot locations. For instance, I extracted the meshes that made holes for a manifold so I could quickly align bolts. I went to do that with the new boolean result that someone made for me, and found I had to do workarounds. I'll add a feature request for this, I seem to need it more than I should. The new boolean does give less errors than ProBoolean though, which is nice.

@@chadvoller Yes, this will be great. Overall booleans is faster more stable/reliable than procutter but has his limitations as well, one fore me is the not QT UI, the extract operators another one.

No, weighted normals... es muy bueno! Que problemas tienes con max 2021? a mi me va como una seda.

@@andvfx la verdad ya ni me acuerdo mucho, creo que fueron los updates los que me fastidiaron mucho, sobre todo usando herramientas de edit poly por fortuna no lo he desinstalado, probare denuevo mas adelante

ya me acorde, tambien unwrapp se reseteaba todo el tiempo y el mensaje del scene converter aparecia sin cesar y era muy molesto pero a la vez necesario

@@RTstudioArchviz el mensaje dels cene converter puedes decir que no te salga automaticamente si quieres.

@@andvfx en efecto, pero es necesario para las galerias predeterminadas de Forestpack y Railclone por ejemplo, en fin, ni modo, son detalles que ojala modifiquen

These booleans where introduced 5 years ago. XD. Actually the boolean modifier is even better.