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Text holes on polygon cylinder - boolean operation Maya 2010

I have been trying to make letter holes on a polygon cylinder. I have made the letter through Text option. I set the height a bit bigger than the height of the cylinder.

Then, using the Boolean Operation I tried to remove the letter from the cylinder, in order to make the hole. Both objects, cylinder and letter disappeared, although the letter should only be disappeared.

This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc50WFjyynQ shows what I am trying to do, but instead of removing the object, I am trying to remove the 3D Text(which I made with Bevel option).

Any advice will be helpful.

Thank you

Solution

  • Well you can use a trial version of Rhino, and you'll get a model as you expect with the booleans.

    On the other hand, using booleans for modeling is not a good practice, you can still use Maya and make either bump maps or displacement maps

    See this video and this