Michael

many thanks again

You were exactly right. The smaller peice is not an upper solid. I was trying to create this peice (using curves and mirror) on the surface of the torso so the matching was exact. When i lofted the peice it did not cap. So, I have created another peice, which is solid and did cap and then moved that to the correct area and then union it worked! I had to rotate and scale a little to align, however it did work well. I wonder if their is an align to a surface tool? Next bit of work :)

Really starting to enjoy this now...hopefully enough I can justify paying for it at the end of my trial.

Scall

and thanks for the tips - most usefull

Hi Scall,

> When i lofted the peice it did not cap.

That would be because the ends were not planar - MoI only knows how to automatically seal off planar ends of shapes, if the end is warped or bent around in 3D instead of planar it will remain open and you will have to find some other way to seal it off. Usually the easiest way to seal off an end though is to slice it off with some other shape that extends through it by some amount.


> I had to rotate and scale a little to align, however it did work well.
> I wonder if their is an align to a surface tool?

There are some tools for orienting an object onto a planar surface, check out the Transform > Orient tools, some more information here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4487.61

- Michael

thanks again