Classic archicture groove
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Hello!
I would recommend just modelling it out by hand, as you will have much more control over the results vs using a boolean. To speed things up, you can do something kinda like this:
From your reference image, it looks like the inner arch is a half circle. to achieve that shape quickly you can create a cylinder, then just delete the faces you don't need. Here's a starting cylinder:
then I deleted unneeded faces to get the arch. After that I flipped the normals of the geo so that they face the correct way and got this:
After that i grabbed the front edges, and did an extrude to get this:
and then adjusted the verts to kinda match the reference photo:
then I did another extrude on those new edges, and adjusted the verts to get this:
after that I selected where the grooves should be:
and did a bevel operation to get this:
after that, I grabbed the faces that were created from the bevel, and extruded them backwards to get this:
That should give you a fairly good idea of how I would approach something like this, but there are many other ways to do it. Hope that helps!! Let me know if you have any questions on anything I did here.