Request advice on panelling spaceships (or what have you)

 From:  Michael Gibson
1792.15 In reply to 1792.14 
Hi Yenmonger,

> Mr. Gibson - the 3DM file should contain everything necessary
> to recreate the problem. Note that I am using the beta V1, if
> that would make any difference.

Sorry - I had thought you were talking about another one of those vertical "longitude" pieces.

But I guess you are talking about the equator line one instead?

Yeah - that one is just barely grazing the vertical segments, it is difficult for the booleans to process intersections where surfaces kind of barely skim past each other.

If you scale that equator band either in or out by a slight amount, or use a larger sized square to sweep that particular one, it should create a slightly deeper or shallower groove which will more clearly push through the vertical surfaces instead of barely skimming along them. That kind of "clear push through" should allow the booleans to complete.

I did a quick test just now, and scaling that middle band from the origin by a scale factor of 1.01 seems to do the trick.

- Michael