Be proud of being called a Blender Nerd. The nuances of handling Boolean operations are important to ensure manifold structure of your final object. Using a boolean to characterize a cutter makes a lot of sense if you want a clean topology. Thanks for the pedantic details that make this more understandable.

Even though I wouldn't consider myself a beginner anymore- I love these back to basics tutorials. It really reinforces the fundamentals and serves as not only a good learning tool but an excellent refresher!

You are a Blender nerd lol! Thank God though. You have helped me in leaps and strides learning blender. Especially for 3d printing seeing as there are few I find that talk 3d printing with blender. Most are all about rendering and I'm not interested in that. So Thank you ya big nerd. We luv ya all the more for it lol. PS. I want to add that your tutorials are perfect. Recently, I had to try learning a different software and there are zero people out there like you that are direct, give good and multiple examples, and just over all know how to communicate effectively when it comes to that other software. It drove me nuts looking for that software's version of you. Never found one and still understand very little about it. Meanwhile, you teach me something new every video even when I've been using the feature you're talking about. A million times thank you.

Food for thought! Nothing wrong with being a nerd! Nerds get shyte done!

great tutorial!! I see a liberty bell in there!!

I was going through your back catalogue ,always worth while, you did "Creating perfect trim on complex objects in Blender" about 11 months ago I think you should put a link to it here as it leads nicely into what your doing here and it was a great tutorial also

I would hate to see the person who called you a blender nerds topology **shudders** lol, thanks again for the excellent advice! These videos are always S+ tier and I couldn’t imagine using blender for 3D printing without them. Appreciate your hard work!!

Video suggestion: CAD sketcher blender addon for non-destructive parametric modeling. It can be great for creating complex shapes that would normally require SubD, and it’s easy to change the shape at any time.

Just discovered your videos. From the few that I have just watched, your videos are really helpful. I use Blender to make STL files to run on a CNC. The problem I have with blender is that it is not happy with small detail i.e. accurate dimensions. I change the Units to millimeters but I leave the unit scale at 1. I know that some folks change the unit scale to 0.001 but when doing a lot of booleans, I find that I run into major problems. You mention that you are into 3D printing and from what little I know of 3D printing, the models have to be pretty good. So, finally to my question. Do you leave your scale at 1 and when you are working with objects where 0.5mm is important, how do you deal with it in Blender? Thanks for your answer and most importantly, for your videos.

Thanks Jedi Master

fantastic explination as always, i cut from my cutters, just make things way easier to control, could you do a video on a highly complex object and best practices to bool them together if its a larger part with alot of parts coming togther, i sometimes still struggle because a previous bool has messed up geomatry in the object and has caused an error i then need to go in and fix, also i dont understand why some of my bools will work as inteded and others will look like theyve workd but then when you look inside the mesh you then end up finding the resh of that bool as been left inside the mesh, usually i can find these quickly using select - select by trait - internal faces but that doesnt always work, i do have a tip if found out though im not sure youve mentioned it before but after youve finished booling a complex object togther and applied the modifers, sometimes just moving the object around causes a bit of lag and in extreme cases its almost impossible to move, ive found to fix this, Shift D the object after applyng the modifers and deleting the ond on and now it'll move around smooth as butter, my theory as to why this happens is blenders still holding all the bool information as part of the Shift Z (undo) action attached to that onject and by duplicating youve removed those undo options in the new object, food for though or possible next topic in a future video, love your content as always!!

Thanks for the lesson! I have a question -- my bool tool removes the Cutter from my collection and places it into a Cutters Collection. For you it seems to just hide the cutter. This has been frustrating to my organization -- any tips?

-Nice, :)

i would love to ask you.. could you do a tutorial on how to add a (geometric pattern) texture on a non uniform object( lets say a skull ). i create jewelry and still have problems creating this effect

pssst dude do u know how i could prevent weird wonkey square corners when doing insert faces