Hi Steve, one thing that is a bit odd about the object in that general area is when I delete these 3 faces here:



There remains this little tiny slivery surface here that was part of the model:




That's like a little tiny micro shelf, and those kinds of little slivery surface bits can have a tendency to mess up the object structure in various ways, those can get formed if the pieces that are being booleaned together are just slightly misaligned or skewed from one another where different planar pieces come together.

- Michael

thanks, michael

Once again,

I can send you a the file where I get the bugling, if you want to take a look. I think my biggest problem was trying to take short cuts, I get a better result, if I use flow on the fleurs and then add the top and bottom rails with either sweep or revolve. I guess I should only use flow when it's really needed :).

You have also made me realize that I need to go back to my library models and make sure they are clean of defects :)


Side note: I've been playing with MoI on a Dell tablet, windows 7 sucks has a tablet OS , but MoI is quite usable (the Dell comes with a Stylus, that make a real difference) I did try Windows 8 review on it, but Moi had some problems on windows 8, which is has one would expect, I think the problems where with webkit , second level menu selection could not be selected.

Hi Steve, it may take me a while to get to the bottom of why your original fleur had that damaged area in it.

In the meantime, try the attached updated version.

For this version I mirrored over the fleur from the other side and trimmed it into place, also deleting a couple of those little tiny micro shelf areas as well, and this version looks like it should now boolean union ok.

- Michael

Thanks Michael


I went back to my original template, luckily, I had all the solids used to make the fleur saved has separated objects, after playing around with it a bit, I found the micro shelf areas are formed when I boolean Union them together. If I deleted the micro surfaces, it would not join back into a solid, left me with some edges that did not match up, since I was not sure how to fix this, I just cut away the edges and made some patches, then it would reform into a solid. I hope no one will notice a .03mm patch :) I think I will just replace it if the one you created. I'm sure it will cause me less pain, long term :)

P.S, I've just had my first piece cast in Sterling Silver. nothing fancy, but it's something my wife wanted. is there a live post, where users post photos of real world object created from MoI designs?

Hi Steve,

> P.S, I've just had my first piece cast in Sterling Silver.
> nothing fancy, but it's something my wife wanted. is
> there a live post, where users post photos of real world
> object created from MoI designs?

Sounds great, I'd love to see it!

If you'd like you can post it as a gallery item on the MoI gallery here:
http://moi3d.com/gallery/

Or you can also just post it here in the forum, either as an attachment on this thread or you can start a new discussion thread for it if you want.

- Michael