Universal Cutting Utility for Houdini 19 - EHA Poly Slice (v1.3)

In this video I demonstrate my Poly Slice Universal Cutting Utility for Houdini 19. I submitted this tool last year for the SideFx LABS 2021 Tech Art Challenge, which I ended up winning 3rd place.
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Since then I've updated the tool to version 1.3, which you'll be able to download from this link.

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A bit of Background on the asset:

The E-Houdini Academy Poly Slice was originally developed for the next Chapters of the "Procedural Asset Production" Masterclass, where it will be used a lot to help perform cutting operations.

But the node would be great as a native node in Houdini.
So I decided to enter it into the Tech Art Challenge contest, as one of the prizes for winning is the chance to see it added to the SideFx Labs toolkit or Houdini as an out of the box tool.

That said, if this happens the tool will probably get a name change as not to conflict with another node that was added to the Labs toolkit last year.

You can find the page for the Side FX Labs 2021 Tech Art Challenge here:

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Overview
00:03:57 Why use the Poly Slice ?
00:09:13 Practical Examples
00:13:01 Poly Slice Precision Controls
00:15:53 Conclusion

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[EHoudiniAcademy]

I've made 2 minor version updates (1.3.3 to 1.3.5). The Download link has been updated.
Here is the change list:

Change: 1.3.4
- I've cleaned up the interface, hiding settings when they aren't used.
- It now provides a guide wireframe of the cutting geometry in the viewport when you have
the node rendered and selected. This also shows the snapping radius for points.
- Auto Precision mode and High Precision mode now display the overwritten snapping values on the asset interface.
- I've improved Cusping behavior to also support the cusping of cut points ( when points or points on edges
mode is used ).

Change: 1.3.5
- The Boolean Surface to Surface Method now supports inserting points without cutting edges into the source geometry.
- Group outputs have been updated to better deal with Source Groups and Cusping in both Poly Split and Boolean mode.

[Hypnoticshark]

This is pretty cool! Thank you for releasing this!

[dennisbrunn]

thanks for the tool. it saved me a lot of time.

[DimiShimi]

I feel like this should have a github and then our community could add fixes and improvements as needed.

[antoniopepe]

im a bit confusing with Polyslice from Labs ...
damn you have chosen the same name ... I don't know who was the first :)
still great tool;)