Knifing a sphere causes a crash?
by Donald Teal · in Constructor · 04/11/2007 (7:46 am) · 3 replies
I created a sphere which I wanted to cut in half. So I took the knife tool and made my cut. Constructor crashed. I repeated this multiple times.
I can use the slice tool on the sphere with no crashes but not the knife
I can use the slice tool on the sphere with no crashes but not the knife
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#2
I can create half spheres, just was strange that constructor would crash on using the knife tool yet let me do the slice tool just fine.
04/11/2007 (9:00 am)
Good advice about the wall thickness. I can create half spheres, just was strange that constructor would crash on using the knife tool yet let me do the slice tool just fine.
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04/11/2007 (11:06 am)
It does seem that the knife tool crashes on spheres - but only when trying to cut them in half along their center. Slice and Clip tools seem unaffected. Most strange, I'll point it out to Matt. 
Torque Owner Mark Barner
mbarnatl
1.) create your sphere the size you want the dome to be. Note: be careful on how many sides and segments you use for the sphere. If it crashes set them to a lower value.
2.) use the hollow brush, set wall thickness to 0.8 or higher.
3.) create a cube large enough to cover the bottom half of the sphere and use CSG Subtract, then delete cube.
You now have a dome that will go into the engine. I noticed several times though that if you set the wall thickness lower than 0.8 you will have some faces missing, the wall thickness defaults at 0.5.