Adventures across the 3rd dimension

Yup I tried it too. It moved in increments of 1 m. "Slightly" more than I wanted. And I couldn't figure out how to change the size of increments. I tried one place and that wasn't it.

Now I want to do a boolean extraction and I've seen a guy explain how and it sounds oh so simple except, you're supposed to be in object view but I can only select the bits I want to use in edit view and in edit view I can't use the boolean thingy (for some reason, I mean it IS an edit isn't it?) and in object view I can only select the whole damn scene or nothing. And in the scene tree I can't see the shapes I've added that I wish to subract so I can't select them that way either. ALL my geometry, in spite of being several shapes is called "cube".

EDIT: Found the modifier stuff anyway. Added one, set it to boolean. It says I can show it in edit mode. Edit mode says modifier is now allowed. Object mode says modifier disabled. Not that I expected it to work....

But if I have one item made from one cube and then add another cube mesh, why id my scene still listed as one cube? and om my what have I done? I don't seem to have a grid at all....

There doesn't seem to be a difference between "mesh" and "object" to me But I'm guessing you mean edit mode adds to the existing mesh/object and object mode adds separate objects. Keeping tabs on those tabs is going to be a chore....

hnnnghnnnnnagrghhh

*has managed to cut away the piece that was supposed to make the hole*
*has managed to make weird faces and rasterized looks and cutting out half the shape*
*has not managed to cut out what I want*

Objects aren't necessarily meshes, but meshes are always objects. A camera is an object, a light is an object, a mesh is an object, a particle emitter and so on. If you are in object mode you are manipulating these items. In edit mode you are manipulating the geometry components contained in a mesh object.

The name assigned to the object in the scene outliner (or whatever it's called in Blender - the list of stuff), is just automatically created when you add a preset primitive, but it doesn't really mean much. It could call it Brian and it would still contain the same stuff. Once you have added geometry to a mesh object it is no longer a cube or cylinder etc. it's just geometry that is contained in the object.

Well, I now have a gazillion Brians and nobody in their right mind would accept my face count. But whatever. I'm also going to hate myself if I ever try to texture this little hut I'm now building, because I'm not currently bothering about the uv mapping, but at least I'm making *some* progress. I think.

Annoyingly I will have to go to bed without managing a proper boolean operation. They keep messing up all the surrounding faces instead of just making a clean cut. For one item, it managed to somehow produce a new face which I could then "extrude inwards" to make a hollow shape. Not the shape I wanted, but still a hollow.... Next, I wanted to use a box to make holes for windows in my "under construction walls". Nope. And I can't get exact enough coordinates with the knife tool and when I used the tool that adds subdivisions, anything I did to one log (yes, log cabin) happened to ALL the logs in that wall, as they are duplicates. I'm not sure if copy paste makes a difference.

Anyway I need sleep and then I DO need to get my butt out of the house and into the car and to the pharmacy and the (further away) grocery store tomorrow, and I just know I'll want to get back to this as soon as I wake up... But if I don't get in my car soon, that new battery will be as dead as the old one...