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The equivalent of Blender's "Extrude Manifold"?

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raincole
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In Blender, there is a feature called "Extrude Manifold" that allows us to do this:



How to do this in Houdini? The usual PolyExtrude gives this:

Edited by raincole - April 16, 2025 00:55:36

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CYTE
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The modeler plugin has a function called push. The toolset is a great addition to Houdini.
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Edited by CYTE - April 16, 2025 02:15:49

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raincole
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As cool as it is... is there a way to do this without third-party plugin?
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Aizatulin
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You can do it with boolean, I've made some experiments combining extrude with boolean and some cleanup operations.

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How good is that Push Pull functionality within Modeler plugin? Any close to 3ds Max Smart Extrude implementation? The Blender one is largely unfinished.
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Very good. Here is a video from a quite a while back that will give you a flavour. This is the OLD modeller interface, current version is much different and improved.

YouTube https://youtu.be/mQ-Hfq3mwcI?si=I9NFcPpCmy7fQrTw [youtu.be]

Modeller has a discord channel here: https://discord.gg/xR22PP99 [discord.gg]
Edited by Mike_A - April 24, 2025 18:32:09
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khomatech
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Modeler is well worth the money, this is just one example why.
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