Hello all! I have a question concerning booleans in use for 3D printing. I am wanting to take this alpha *see attached below* and use Shapeways to make a pendant for my girlfriend. I have drawn out the curves in Illustrator so that the writing is a single expanded vector and the pendent is a single line, as well as the hole for the necklace loop. I have imported those curves but can't seem to figure out the best approach for the booleans procedure. I have tried using Bevel Plus on the pendent a few times and yielded decent results, although I couldn't seem to get a smooth NURBS mesh. I would like to partially submerge an extruded handwriting in a pendent mesh and have a clean results. In the past, I have always cursed booleans because it never seemed like the results were 100% favorable. Any advice how how to proceed? Thanks you much! Josh
You could use our '2D to 3D' app for that. You can use different levels of gray to achieve a beveled effect. If you want to model this yourself in a 3D app, it would depend on the app, I guess. In Blender it would be fairly trivial to extrude this from an AI file, I think. Bart
A wonderful mod over at simplymaya put together a wonderful series of tutorials covering my question. Here is the link to that post. http://simplymaya.com/forum/showthread.php?p=351812&post ed=1#post351812 Thanks again ctbram!