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Blender 3D Printing by Example
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Blender 3D Printing by Example

by Vicky Somma
December 2017
Beginner
430 pages
8h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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Duplicating and sizing a cylinder

Now that we are satisfied with the shape and size of our base plate for the bracelet, we should add holes so that it can be incorporated into a jewelry piece. The Boolean Modifier that we used in Chapters 4, Flattening a Torus and Boolean Union, and Chapter 5, Building a Base with Standard Meshes and a Mirror, can also subtract objects from each other:

The Boolean Modifier can also subtract objects from each other

We can use that to poke holes in either side of our plate. That hole object could potentially be any shape. We could subtract a cylinder, a cube, or even the profile pendant we made in previous ...

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