Netfabb Studio Tutorial - Boolean Operations

In this first video clip, you can see how Boolean operation are conducted with two spheres.

First, the two spheres are moved together so that they overlap. Both are selected and the Precision Plus tool is started. The screen switches to the Precision Plus screen, where both parts are marked green. Thus, they can be unified by clicking on the green Plus icon in the tabsheet. They become blue, which shows that a Boolean operation has already been conducted. It can now be applied by clicking on the green tick. As the box "Remove Original Parts" is not ticked, the new part is added to the project and the old parts still remain.

The unified part is moved out of the way, the original spheres are selected again, and the Precision Plus tool is restarted. This time, an intersection is created by clicking on the black half-circle and the resulting part is inserted into the project.

In the third Boolean operation, one sphere is subtracted from the other. Therefore, the sphere about to be removed is clicked on in the screen. It turns red and is moved into the right field in the tabsheet. By clicking on the red Minus icon in the tabsheet, a part is calculated consisting of the green part, but without those volume sections overlapping with the red part. Again, the calculation is applied with the green tick.

The second clip shows how Boolean operations can also be conducted with more than two parts, as the operations are shown in all combinations, including the subtraction of one sphere from a unification of the others, the subtraction of two spheres from the third and a unification of all three cross sections between two of the three spheres.

To get a detailed description, go to the Boolean Operations page.