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Part VI: Advanced Modeling
The order in which the operations are applied affects the result. You can reorder the operations in the list
by selecting an operation, choosing its position in the list, and clicking the Reorder Ops button.
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You also can apply Boolean operations to shapes using the Boolean operators available for Editable Meshes in the
Geometry rollout. Chapter 12, “Drawing and Editing 2D Splines and Shapes,” covers these 2D Boolean operators. n
FIGURE 27.25
The Insert operation only maintains closed volumes when subtracted.

The materials that get applied to a ProBoolean result can be set to use the Operand Material or to retain the
Original Material. If you use the Operand Material with the subtraction operation, then the surface that
touches the picked object retains the removed object’s material, and the rest of the object has the original
object’s material. If the Retain Original Material option is selected, then the entire result gets the original
object’s material.
In the Advanced Options rollout are options for updating the scene and for reducing the complexity of the
object. The Decimation value is the percentage of edges to remove from the result. If you plan on smooth-
ing the object or converting it to an Editable Poly object, then you want to enable the Make Quadrilaterals
option, which causes the polygon reduction to avoid triangles in favor of quads. You also can set the Quad
Size, and you can select how planar edges are handled.

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