TyFracture for wood processing?

[JuhaHo]

I wonder if TyFracture would be correct tool for chipping a log sides. I have normally done this by using boolean or V-Ray slice, but then I would need an additional particle system and don't see the log being cut. I modeled this log mid 90's by using Digimation's Clay Studio Pro metaspline and have used it in my sawing animation ever since.

So I'm looking a way to permanently reduce geometry as log object passes the blades.

   

[JuhaHo]

I decided to use the fast lane - tyBoolean, which, by the way is much better than built in Max booleans. However I would really like to dig in to tyFracture. It has endless possibilities in technical visualization & animation.

OT. In the early years of Max, I exported the objects to 3DS and opened them in 3D-Studio for MS DOS. by then it was much more robust than built in Max Booleans.

[tyFlow]

If you need to perform successive cutting operations, you can use the Boolean particle operator in the latest build. Import your object with a Birth Object operator, then use a Boolean operator (with Timing set to "continuous") to perform multiple subtraction operations on it over time using your cutting geometry. See attached.