Boolean Union Problem

 From:  LOTRJ
2625.1 
Hello Michael.

You're probably familiar with the War Rocket miniature game since Phil has posted several models that he has made for it. I'm modeling the ships for the Zenithian Saucer Men, and I'm having some boolean union trouble on the Class 3 saucer.

1. When I try to union the dome to the engine platform section the calculations complete, but the geometry comes out all messed up.
2. When I try to union the engine platform to the rest of the saucer, the boolean command exits without doing anything.



I have tried all the tricks that I know to get it to work, including saving and reopening the file, selecting the objects in different orders, scaling the objects up first, moving the parts or otherwise modifying them slightly, copying and pasting into the same file, copying and pasting into a new file, and even copying and pasting into version 1.0.

I've attached the current 3dm file, I'm using the April 2.0 beta.

Also, I may need to make some minor design changes before doing the final union, so I'll need to be able to re-create any fix you may have on my own later.

EDITED: 10 May 2009 by LOTRJ