Hi NightCabbage,
> What's Shell?
There's some info in the help file:
http://moi3d.com/1.0/docs/moi_command_reference7.htm#shell
The help file reference index is available here for browsing:
http://moi3d.com/1.0/docs/moi_command_reference.htm, it's a good place to look if you want to get some general info on how a particular command works.
> Ok so I figured that part of my problem was because I wasn't
> using solid objects (for the exhausts?)
Yeah, usually for doing the booleans you will want to be working with solid objects instead of trying to combine a solid with a surface like you had in this case.
Normally if you do a Loft between 2 circles you should get a solid though, unless you turned off the "cap ends" option?
Otherwise, you can select them now and run Construct / Planar to cap the ends off now, or like Burr mentioned use Construct / Shell if you want to thicken the surface into a solid which will be kind of like a hollowed out cone.
> So you boolean intersecting solid objects, and you join touching lines.
Yup!
You can also use join on surfaces as well, if you have 2 surfaces that are touching at a common edge, then join will glue them together and they will then have a joined edge between them.
When you have a set of surfaces that have all edges joined to another edge, then that is what makes a solid.
It can be convenient to work with solids, because the booleans are set up to work on volumes, and determine which pieces to keep and discard based on that.
> Maybe someone could check it out and see if it's done right?
Seems to look all ship-shape to me!
To make a more complex model you just keep doing what you've been doing and adding more and more pieces.
- Michael
