Sometimes I need to make a solid shorter, but preserve geometry on both ends. Like a barbell that has lots of fancy stuff on the weights, but something like a simple cylinder connecting the ends with lots of detailed geometry (this is just an example).
I’ve been doing this by defining a rectangular solid and using it with Solid Tools Subtract to cut out the middle of the solid. Then, I move one half to be adjacent to the other and delete edges on the abutted faces.
This works pretty well, but is there a better or preferred way to do this?
