Construction Challange (BEVELING related)

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Construction Challange (BEVELING related)

Let's start with a Dodecahedron. Why not.

Suppose you had a simple beveled Dodecahedron (smaller than src object by the bevelling).

Take the large faces left after BEVEL ... and extrude them outwards. Call this BEVEL-AND-EXTRUDED (bae).

Now ... subtract bae object from original dodecahedron ... you should be left with the part that was originally bevelled away.

So you would be left with a ROD-BASED dodecahedron ... a wirecage with some thickness so as to be a manifold. The general cross section of a strut in the final result woudl be triangular.

Let's call the operation BEVEL-INVERSE (on solid). It is an operation of bodies in my head as opposed to edges or faces. Just the way I prefer to think of it.

I found this hard to do last night having tried it for a good while ... hard to do without BOOLEANS. Probably because I'm not being imaginative at this task.

Anyone ... wa way to get the 3D INVERSE of a bevelled Dodecahedron ? Maybe call it the "bevelled complement" ?

I have something very cool to show next after I figure out BEVELED-COMPLEMENT.