extend/trim surfaces to intersection

[Davidramm]

Hi there, I new to 3dsMax and am trying to make a building, but the corners are giving me problems.

I would like to extend/trim the polygons of these two surfaces to the intersection point.

In AutoCad it would a simple case of fillet and the lines are automatically altered to the intersection point. Is there something similar in 3dsMax ??

From this

to this

[RobH2]

Like most things in Max there are several ways to do a lot of the same tasks. Here's a kind of simple and manual one that will get the job done. Someone else may see this and say, "hey, there's a much better way to do that" and I welcome those as it gets some dialog going and we learn new ways people work. 

Watch the video I made. It's essentially this. Make sure the normals on both planes face out. Then, grab the edge of one plane and slide it to intesect the other. Then grab the other plane's edge and pull it up to the intersection. Attach both planes together and weld the verts. Done.

It's a little imprecise, but many people who model for architecture do things like this by hand because the world is not perfect and in the real world there is imprecision. So if you intentionally inject a little imprecision into your models, they tend to look more realistic. 

I hope this helps. 

[dmitriy.shpilevoy]

Hey, there's a... pretty similar way to do that.

I would do it by hand too. But relying on snapping.

In case faces are not aligned to any world axis I would use working pivot.