Maya polygonal modeling question

KrazyTaco

Hi there fellow polycounters. Can you please help me solving an issue I found while poly modeling what will be an air intake for a jet turbine.

I modeled this and duplicated some cubes hoping to get something similar to this:

I have this:

I tought a boolean operation would eliminate the marked parts and solve this but it is not making what i want. Since I want to learn I would be very thankful if you can say me if it is there an efficient way of erasing the undesired mesh rather than moving vertex by vertex.
Well I hope you guys understood my question and problem. Thx in advance and cheers.

GrevSev

Research the Latice deformer tool thats what you'll need

KrazyTaco

GrevSev wrote: »

Research the Latice deformer tool thats what you'll need

Wow quick response jeje thx a lot Grev I will research about it . Let's see what it has to offer.

Goat Justice

Check out the cut faces tool (Edit Mesh>Cut Faces Tool) . That should let you cut slices through all of the cubes, then you can delete the bits you don't need.

KrazyTaco

Thx a lot guys!! I actually used the cut faces tool and made some slices. It worked like a charm I like the results. Latise Deformer research pending.
CheerS!!