Now that we are satisfied with the shape and size of our base plate for the bracelet, we should add holes so that it can be incorporated into a jewelry piece. The Boolean Modifier that we used in Chapters 4, Flattening a Torus and Boolean Union, and Chapter 5, Building a Base with Standard Meshes and a Mirror, can also subtract objects from each other:
The Boolean Modifier can also subtract objects from each other
We can use that to poke holes in either side of our plate. That hole object could potentially be any shape. We could subtract a cylinder, a cube, or even the profile pendant we made in previous chapters:
Examples of the plate with different types of objects subtracted from it
For this project, I want to stay consistent with the curvature of the piece and use a semicircle for my hole. Thinking about the design requirements and the...