Boolean Update

Boolean Update

ArtisanBooleanUpdate is the second half of the editable boolean workflow: after ArtisanEdit has dismantled a union, difference, intersection or split and you have edited the operands, one run of Boolean Update puts everything back together.

How it works

• No selection is needed. The command scans the document for dismantled booleans — the ones opened with ArtisanEdit and not yet rebuilt — and recomputes each one from its stored operands. Intact booleans are left alone.
• Each rebuilt result replaces the dismantled one in its group, and the operands are hidden again.
• If an operand was recreated — for example, a parametric command rebuilt it with a new identity — Update asks you to reselect just that one object, and remembers the new one for next time.

At the end, the command line reports how many booleans were rebuilt. If one of them fails to recompute — a moved cutter no longer intersecting, a tolerance problem — that boolean is skipped with its operands left visible, and the rest are still processed.

Notes

• With no dismantled booleans in the document, the command simply reports there is nothing to update.
• Each rebuild is recorded as an undo step.
• The rebuilt results reappear in the Outliner as editable objects.