Power Booleans is a new plugin by nPower Software that greatly enhances both the reliability and quality of Boolean operations on 3ds max meshes. The plugin captures meta-information about a Max mesh and detects and removes the invisible “topological” edges prior to computing the Boolean. The result is retriangulated to produce the final Max mesh. This process produces both a higher quality mesh (fewer skinny polygons and fewer small edges) and substantially fewer triangles. Price is $195, a trial version is available for download. The same company has also posted information on its upcoming Power Solids plugin, a precision solids modeling toolset 100% integrated with 3ds max.

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