CompuServe Messages

"This is not meant as a flame at you, but just to let you know that there is not way that AutoCAD and 3DS can just "share code" for booleans." Terry, Thank you for your response it was somewhat informative. I am not a big Autocad user (I haven't touched it much since 3DS came out), but was impressed when someone showed me how easily Autocad handled 3D booleans. I still do not agree with you though. Why couldn't 3DS do its modeling using the same method as Autocad so booleans could be done. And like Autocad, these solids could then be converted to meshes. All I know is that when I need to do a boolean, they only work correctly about 25% of the time and I hate having to use and learn and teach my employees to learn 4 or 5 different modeling packages because not one of them will do all they claim. Maybe Autodesk should not in their specifications "It can do some booleans. (If you stand on your head, say the magic word and cross your fingers. 🙂 I do alot of programming so I am aware that there are underlying issues. But sometimes you have to let go of a lot of hard worked code and try something new that someone else may have done better than you. Sorry 🙂 It just ticked me off that Autodesks attitude was "Hey just buy Autocad!" Andrew