booleans and max

[karl zacharias]

here's a question...i recently used a model from cad 2004 with that smart wall tech. and with a few steps imported it into max. the model was a proto-type of a bank that is being slightly altered to fit other sites. I was extremely impressed with the efficient mesh... a square in an opening had what it should have, 4 verts....very easy to manipulate. however try to boolean in max that same mesh, lets say a wall, is distroyed. will power booleans really improve the operations or should i really begin thinking of modeling more in 2005 cad. i can't figure out why max booleans doesn't have simple verts. assigned after an operation....a window in a plane should have 4 verts. extra after the operation, right?, add another box operand and there should be 8 extra, right?...but not in max

[Bugga_Guy]

Max booleans are never all that pleasing to work with. If you want more proffessional boolean operator use this:

 

http://www.npowersoftware.com/booleans/booleans.html

 

-The plugin is quite expensive however

[Brian Cassil]

I have been lead to believe that there will be a major improvement to boolean commands in max through the max subscription service before the next release. In fact my gut tells me that they are preparing to buy npower and incorporate it into max. But that is mostly a gut feeling.

[Chris Johnson]

I have NPower and I really like it. However when I used it extensively on a particular project, I was getting crashes every half hour. And that was in max7!

 

I don't use it much any more because of that.

[hockley91]

Npower booleans is awesome! It works great in Max. It was such a pain to boolean in CAD and then bring it into Max. I never liked Max booleans, to much of a hastle. It was great to finally stay in the Max environment and trust the booleans to work.

 

The only problem I had with Npower was when I upgraded to Max 6 and then I opened the old Max 5 file in Max 6 and my Npower booleans geometries disappeared. Don't know if anyone else has had a problem similar to that.