Results in solid 3D printable objects in almost all cases (if the original objects were also solids) You can get BoolTools 2. New Single Object Union tool (click a single group or component to union all nested solids inside of it).
Union, Difference, Intersection, Trim, Split. Maintains the Layer and Names of the first object selected. Works with nested solids!.ĭoes not create new components! The original component is modified as expected.
Designed with 3D Printing in mind to work with small complex objects (no more scaling workarounds!).
Works with SketchUp Make (Free) or SketchUp Pro (2016 and above). So without further delay, here are the features of BoolTools 2! Features. The Pro Solid Tools has also had some other long-standing limitations that we have improved on with BoolTools. That’s why so many Solid Tools users have adopted the copy and ‘scale-up’ workflow to prevent their Solid Tool operation from failing. Even the Pro Solid Tools struggles with this problem. Successful boolean operations depend on high-precision 3D intersections, something that the internal SketchUp geometry engine struggles with at times. However, it definitely had some limitations, especially when it came to dealing with smaller complex objects. The original BoolTools plugin was indeed useful and helped fill a necessary need in the SketchUp toolset for many years (especially for Make users). After all, the Pro Solid Tools did not exist yet, and no one even knew that SketchUp was considering creating this long-requested feature. This tool provided an inexpensive way to perform some basic boolean operations and worked with both SketchUp Make (free) or Pro. About 20 months before SketchUp Pro 8 released the Solid Tools, (way back in Dec 2008!), the original BoolTools plugin for SketchUp was released.