I'm looking for some general advice on this kind of shape. I am trying to cut a rectangular inset into a curved surface, and I have never found a good way to avoid the "pinching" around the corners. How do I get sharp corners on the inset, but not have those pinched lines extend from the corners? I have just tried…
Use a regularize script, or a spherize command to circle your selection(there are bunch online). IMO booleans are gold but not for things such as a perfect hole. To make a hole in a cylinder just inset it's cylinder cap, if you want mini holes, just do a double quad inset where you want them, hope this quick reply help...
@TelekenticFrog: Hehehe I had a similar TOTALLY OCD problem with the top of a ceramic kitchen pot. Simple-seeming inset drove me up the wall. I redid it 7-8 times over two days and came to the same conclusion as EQ. Specifically, that if I can identify a real world shape as "inset", then insetting and controlling the…