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2. One at a time, select the first rail and then
one
of its cylinders, and choose Mesh
➔
Booleans
➔
Difference. A notch is cut into
the wood rail, as shown in Figure 6.127.
Repeat the procedure for the remaining
rails, doing one cylinder at a time. You can't
cut both cylinders out of one rail at once.
3. When all the notches are cut into the rail-
ings, as shown in Figure 6.128, select all the
railing meshes and delete their history.
4. After you delete the history, look in
the Outliner. All the railing meshes are
removed from their proper hierarchy due
to the Boolean operations. You have to
place them back into the correct groups in
the Outliner by MMB+dragging each rail-
ing node into its proper group, as shown in
Figure 6.129. You can also rename them back
to their original names.
Figure 6.127
A shallow notch is
cut into the wood.
Figure 6.128
Notches? We don't
need no stinking
notches!
