YAUP (Yet Another Union Problem)

 From:  Michael Gibson
2466.3 In reply to 2466.1 
Hi Todd, yeah like Burr mentions one issue is that pipes just barely graze one another, that can sometimes be bad for booleans.

Here's a screenshot of this part:






That may be better to have them either aligned to one another or possibly slightly separated rather than having a very thin intersection, thin slivery intersections can then generate little tiny surface slivers which tend to cause problems.


Then actually a bigger problem is with the joints of the pipe:




If you look there you can see that there are some edges internal to that joint. They are all joined up to one another, but if I use Edit/Separate to break this into individual surfaces and move them apart a bit, you can see what is happening there:




So actually something went wrong with the booleans for the pipe elbows it looks like, that then made an object that has a kind of self-intersecting internal part to it, which is going to pretty much hose booleans with that object after that.


Those can probably be repaired, I'll give a try in a bit.

- Michael