Objects disappear when performing boolean difference?
polycounter lvl 12
Whenever I do a Boolean difference, both my objects disappear. I am doing this in Maya 2014. Normally I'd just give up and multi-cut the details I need but that takes more time than it saves. Especially since this error happens all the time. Here is what I have done to resolve this.
>Mesh cleanup with non-manifold and 5 sided faces on turned.
>unlocked normals
>made sure normals face the right way
>combined everything with another object to strip it of all the residual "crap" data.
>exported as an OBJ
>exited+restarted Maya fresh
>imported OBJ into a new scene
>changed both of the material to a new one (can't hurt right)
Isolated the problem down to the hard surface shape (i think...).
>booleaned both notches with a random sphere. Works just fine.
>attempted to Boolean the sphere with the hard surface shape. Both objects disappear
Here is the file in an FBX format if anyone wants to take a crack at it. I'm trying to dig those 2 grey notch looking things into the hard surface shape.
https://app.box.com/s/8gi01094w3g8gw750uclcfbkoau4fuuz
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>Mesh cleanup with non-manifold and 5 sided faces on turned.
>unlocked normals
>made sure normals face the right way
>combined everything with another object to strip it of all the residual "crap" data.
>exported as an OBJ
>exited+restarted Maya fresh
>imported OBJ into a new scene
>changed both of the material to a new one (can't hurt right)
Isolated the problem down to the hard surface shape (i think...).
>booleaned both notches with a random sphere. Works just fine.
>attempted to Boolean the sphere with the hard surface shape. Both objects disappear
Here is the file in an FBX format if anyone wants to take a crack at it. I'm trying to dig those 2 grey notch looking things into the hard surface shape.
https://app.box.com/s/8gi01094w3g8gw750uclcfbkoau4fuuz
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