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Hints on using boolean operations?

April 26, 2017Boolean hints operations

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Hints on using boolean operations?

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Boolean operations are not supported in Desktop Radiance. HOWEVER, if you have an ACAD drawing modeled with booleans, all is not lost. Here is a “work-around”: 1. Save the ACAD drawing, booleans and all, in either the regular .dwg format or as a .dxf. 2. Open the ACAD drawing in another 3D modeling program, i.e. Form-Z or 3D-Studio. As the non-ACAD 3D modeling program opens and saves the ACAD drawing, it will tranform the boolean’ed volumes into acceptable polyface, 3dmeshes, or 3dfaces. 3. Save the drawing back as an ACAD .dwg file with another name (don’t overwrite the original) after opening it with the “other” 3D modeling program. Now the .dwg file will have no boolean entities but instead have surface enties.