Thanks @Rodinkov_Ilya for developing this awesome addon for Blender!
I’ve been trying it in Blender 2.79 with some good results (BAB 0.2.3).
But recently I’ve switched to Blender 2.8 and de addon (from BAB 0.2.8.2 to 0.3) don’t seem to work with large objects and large bevel cut radius (I have to use blender internal units and not meters due to pipeline requirements). Here you have screen captures of the issue:
The object size is 100 units in the first scene and 10 units in the second one, and the bevel cut radius is changed accordingly from 10 to 1 unit:
Ok. Thank you for the answer.
I think that your add-on could be very use useful for making high poly meshes for baking very fast. The only thing that stops me from using it like that right now is that issue with normals. Hope you will find a solution and thanks for such a great add-on.
Those values might come close to exceed python’s floating precision, I guess that’s also what you were thinking about Rodinkov_Ilya. In my python interpreter the term (1 + 1e-15) - 1.0 returns a somewhat correct value while (1 + 1e-16) - 1.0 returns zero. For terms like 100.00001 an unstable algorithm could cause large errors in python. That just popped into my mind, not sure if the comment fits here at all!
MODO - MeshFusion
Maya - HardMesh
3DSMax - Smooth Boolean
I just love it this kind of modeling its the best and most intuitive way to design/model hard surface object its like a hybrid between Polygon/CAD Modeling but take advantage of both approach.
I hope someone eventually will come up with a solution of this for Blender.
At least this addon is a good foundation.
Can you hepl me, when i generate a random cylinders with script, I get interconnected cylinders, when I use a union boolean, then I convert the group to the STL file, I find a deformed model such that the shape of the different cylinders are rounded, in addition to the problem of intersection created by deformed areas, how to solve these problems.
in this script, if I have the case of an intersection between two or three cylinders, how to make the union then add the bevel and smouth without losing the shape of these cylinders.
You can not do the work by boolean-ing many objects at once. You have to do it one by one. First you must boolean the two cylinders and then bevel them, then you can proceed to boolean the other one -and bevel it- too.
Btw, keep in mind that the objects that you will boolean have to be with rounded corners and that it is better to avoid, as much as possible, making bevelings on areas which has previous bevelings.
The best is if you have the intention to use BAB (Bevel after Boolean) add-on, to keep from the very beginning your objects in smooth shading. So that you may have a better control during the whole process. Applying smooth shading after the operations with BAB can make you meet strange results.
The operation that you show in the screenshot is in fact a very easy operation. BAB can do a very good job in such a situation. So, the sole needed thing is to follow the steps I mentioned.
