crossing faces

[gremdek]

I know it's been brought up before but I can't find it.
I opened a mesh in meta and I have a problem that has to be fixed before using pepakura. Let's assume that my model consists of 2 meshes. It's a sphere and a roller. The roller has it's one end inside the sphere and the other one outside. I want to keep only the outside one. So I need to make somehow verticles at the surface of the sphere. Hope you got it.

[jrmiii]

try the boolean function in 3ds max or gmax (not sure if gmax has it or not)

[gremdek]

sorry but I can't afford 3ds max.

[jrmiii]

have you tried gmax?
you could also get the 30 day trial of 3ds max if you havent already

[gremdek]

can I send you the mesh? just create somehow the verticles and I'll try to make the rest.
Or if there is an option that will make the mesh empty inside I'd beg you to use it.

[jrmiii]

ok, but to make cutting it easier, could you make sure the intersecting pieces dont have any open edges

[gremdek]

what do you mean by open edges?

[jrmiii]

just like in pepakura, edges that are only connected to one polygon