Hi all,

I wrote a little script to see if I can get gmax to slice an object.
So my script creates a cone and  several flat boxes ( the later slices) and with some boolean operations the cone was perfect sliced.

Now comes my question :
If I don't let the script create a cone but load an object into the scene I can't figure out how to read the position of the imported object, the size or the height and so on.( to synchronize the positions of the object and the slice-boxes) .
Gmax sees the imported object only as bounding box  and I can't do any boolean operation between my boxes and the object.
There only comes up an error-message : can't convert or turn into editible mesh.
Searching the MeshScript hrlp I found the Boolean2 Geometry Class and tried boolObj.createBooleanObject . This works fine with the 'onboard' cone but not with my imported object.
Error-message : source object has wrong format.
However if I manually click Compund objects > Boolean and select intersection as result it works fine and the result is as it should be.
The MaxScript-Listener doesn't catch the Compound object >boolean clicks .
Seems to be no way of doing boolean operations between 'onboard'-objects and loaded objects ??

Here is the script which shows want I want to do:

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-- number of boxes/slices
Slices = 10

--height of the cone
C_height = 80

--height of the slices
Box_height = C_height / Slices

--create the cone
Cone smooth:on heightsegs:5 crapsegs:1 sides:24 height:C_height radius1:30 radius2:5 pos:[0,0,0] isSelected:on

--create the boxes/slices
count = 1
while count < slices+1 do
(
Box lengthsegs:1 widthsegs:1 heightsegs:1 length:90 width:90 height:Box_height pos:[00,0,(count-1)*Box_height] isSelected:off
count+=1
)

--do the boolean thing
count = 1
while count < slices+1 do
(
select $*Box*[count]
$*Box*[count] * $Cone01

--move the slices to new postion
$*Box*[count].pos = [-80,0,(0+(count-1)*10)]
count +=1
)

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Thanks in advance for every help

Richard