Good boolean software ?

I am really sick of poor boolean operations in Blender, whether it’s the 2.76b or the trunk. At one point or another it fails miserably and also ruins my mesh permanently. It leaves a lot of non-manifold parts and sometimes loose parts on the mesh.

Is there an app that performs boolean operations on meshes better than Blender?

Thanks.

Hard ops 5 maybe.

You could try 3D-Coat’s voxel sculpting, where you can do boolean operations all day long and not have to worry about topology. It does have it’s own caveats though and you need a video card with as much memory as you can get (my 2Gb 460 works fine). You can then convert your voxels to polys and/or retopologize at any time.

There is a demo here:

http://3dcoat.com/download/

Jason

Have you tried showing us the geometry setup that fails, because either…

Your setup had a case where there’s faces and/or edges perfectly overlapping each other, which is a current limitation of the new boolean algorithm.

or…

You found a bug that you should report to the tracker rather than dismissing it as a load of crap.

I tried MeshLab, and it said my mesh wasn’t water tight. I am guessing after doing many boolean ops in Blender, it degraded my mesh (I was joining various rocks to achieve a rock formation).

Even after I closed holes and stuff, somehow I still can’t do boolean. Might try cleaning mesh after each boolean op and see if that helps.

Usual errors
Non manifold edges (use select menu to highlight them)
Duplicate vertices
Inconsistent normals

Try Groboto, it is the best piece of software, regarding booleans, that someone can buy in a so low price. It is an app designed from artists, an art work by itself. It is the predecessor, somehow, of Modo’s so well known plugin ‘Meshfusion’ (made by the same developers).

http://www.groboto.com/v3/