Make a small square on each corner on the face of a cube.

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Hi,

I want to make a small square on each corner on the face of a cube.
Subdividing is no good because it will create a lot of other squares and merging the ones I don’t want will take a lot of time.
Using Boolean isn’t helpful either… it makes a lot of triangles and weird faces all over the cube.

Any tips?
(My goal is to, after the squares are made, I delete them and put some cylinders in there. I’m making a snooker table.)

Using Blender 2.67b

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Quick, low poly method, using a mirror modifier.

pool.jpg1048×1539 392 KB

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Hello I am not sure that i understood your problem , but when you cut an orthogonal corner with a cuttingplane you get this

http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/6346/1u1a.png

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/3786/a1bd.png
unless you dont want to have it to cut the full object and then u can get a square shape and it would look like this

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4258/1qk.png

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/5104/e1i.png

If yoou want to make a trianngular cut on each edge like on one of the first images you can use a modifier called bevel modifier.

you can find more about it here :
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Generate/Bevel

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Thanks for all the input. While I was waiting for replies I tried the knife tool one more time and this time I succeeded. Took a lot of time though.
I had to manually edit the coordinates of every single new vertex so it would be perfect. Then separate all squares to a new object, applied the Boolean to them with the cylinders and finally merge everything.

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Altho, this thread is already marked as solved, here is what I made, in a screencast. I did almost the same thing than Blenderallday, and a little more.

For future references… :wink: And just because I would hate having fought for nothing with Blender screencast recording function and YouTube which butchered my awesome (almost) 1080p video of 81 MB to make a blurry 720p crap. (Download the original MP4!)

If nobody learns anything with this video, I learned something. That’s a lot already. :smiley:

EDIT: Oops! I forgot to attach the blend file.

Here it is: Forum Pool Table.blend (99.8 KB)

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Thanks for the video! I did learn something… I’m too slow on Blender :stuck_out_tongue:
Now I don’t know which I like more… yours or mine lol.