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Better Extrusions (like sketchup, with boolean Option)

Better Extrusions (like sketchup, with boolean Option)

It would be amazing to have a Boolean option in the extrusion, for negative operations...
Negative extrusions in max are really anti-intuitive and we need a lot of work to use them in hard situation.
With an optional "boolean" option negative extrusion could be really smart and sketchup like

 

Here is an example of an obvious situation where it would be greatly usefull... Just create a 3x3 Cube and do a negative extrusion on a side quad.

 

Boolean Extrusion.png

 

9 Comments
lightcube
Advisor

I rather like this idea. Simple and useful.

companioncube
Collaborator
zbrush has this too, really useful.
tricotalazan
Contributor

AGree

michael_spaw
Autodesk

+1

 

-Michael

Kelly_Michels
Autodesk
Status changed to: Future Consideration
 
doomgravex
Contributor

@Kelly_Michels

Implemented means that this could be seen in 3ds 2019? 😄

Xerges
Advocate

Extrude in Max should have the option to behave like Qmesh and perform automatic welding, bridge or clean up topology depending on the situation,

like ZBrush Qmesh does:

 

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electrotoast_old
Community Manager
Status changed to: Future Consideration
 
shawnolson
Autodesk
Status changed to: Implemented

Implemented in 3ds Max 2022 as Smart Extrude.

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