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Turn the half sphere into a hole
Next you need to make the inverted half sphere into a hole in order to
create a recessed shape from the center of the button. Select the half
sphere in the center of the cylinder and then click Hole on the Inspector
palette.
The half sphere will now have grayish diagonal lines through it. Making
the half sphere a hole essentially creates a
Boolean difference
from the
cylinder shape. See
Figure 8-18
.
Group the shapes together
Select both shapes (the half sphere hole and the cylinder) and group the
shapes together. You will now have a basic button shape with a recessed
area in the middle.
Figure 8-19
shows this.
Figure 8-18.
Cylinder with half sphere hole removed
Figure 8-19.
Grouped components
