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Okay! Our shaker looks pretty basic but it's starting to take shape. Let's put some
holes on the top section using Booleans and another tool called array.
Making holes in the shaker top
So, it's pretty obvious that if we want to create holes, we're going to be using
Booleans. However, how do we get a nice, even hole pattern? Well, we're going
to create a bunch of cylinders for our cutting pattern using a tool called array.
Let's start with a basic cylinder for our first hole. Create one that looks like the
one in the top-left section of the following screenshot:
Creating the cutting tool for the holes in our shaker top
Object arrays (duplicating objects in
a pattern)
In the preceding screenshot, we showed you how to create an array of cylinders as
our cutting tool for the top of the salt shaker. The process is slightly different in every
software package, but the principles are the same.
