MR wrote in message <3bc32fa8$1@news.povray.org>...
>thanks gilles,
>
>i tried it at lunch.  you draw a sphere, like you said, position
>it over the csg you want deleted, select the punch tool, and
>then the object you are performing the operation on, and
>then the + and - keys to look at variations.  unless i'm doing
>something wrong (god forbid!  ;-), it doesn't want to perform
>a punch operation on my mesh.  when i click on the mesh to
>perform the operation, amapi closes instantly.  its repeatable
>too.  did it twice in a row.
>
>but i'll bang on it some more.  there's an easy way to do this...
>there has to be!  editting a mesh is an elementary operation.

Keep trying. IIRC Amapi, though  wonderful, is a bit buggy. The CSG is
supposedly improved in version 5 and 6. Amapi is now in the Eovia site
(www.Eovia.com , I think)
>

>there's no newsgroup with the keyword "amapi" in it either.

Try in www.yahoogroups.com

Regards,
-Anoop

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