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Boolean Union changing sizes

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Boolean Union changing sizes

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- One of the biggest issues you get when you do Boolean Unions is making sure that you're doing it with objects that are significantly different from each other. Now I'll explain that. This is a plane, one-sided plane I'm just going to click select, double-click on this to select all of it and hit the D key to extrude it a little bit into a cube. So we have a cube here and I'm actually just going to select this entire thing and clear the face groups. So that we're not looking at them So we have a cube I'm going to duplicate it so we have another cube and move it over to something like that. So you might think that a Boolean Union on something like this would be pretty easy. You'd just mesh these two together it's exactly, exactly, exactly flat on the top and the bottom would be pretty easy to do. So let's select both of these and click Boolean Union and see the mess that happens. Zoom in a little bit here and click accept. So Meshmixer has all sorts of issues with this. Open…

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