Blender School: Hard Ops continued

 Snapping

During a Boxcutter operation, press "Ctrl" to activate the default grid-based snapping mode, which is pretty cool.

Live mode

Press Tab during operation to make Boxcutter "live". In the live mode the operation doesn't complete and can be manipulated. The Blue dot is for bevel control. Press Return to complete.

Lock Mode

Click on the arrow/chevron to make shape selection a two-step process.

View Align

Boxcutter aligns with the detected surface. If you want Boxcutter projected from your view, select Align to View. This lets you make off-angle cuts into a model. In a normal operation, the start of a cut can be deep inside a model because of which face you are clicking to start. To avoid the problem of a cut starting instead of a model, use View Align when viewing from a side-on view, then the cut will not consider how deep the selected face is.

Destructive Mode

Fast operations that automatically apply each Boolean operation. Instead of making a post-operation adjustment, you would instead use Blender's undo.

Optional Stuff

Not critical stuff but might help you occasionally

Grid Mode

You can use a grid as a cutter. Niche but nice!

Taper

Make your cutter shape taper into the cut. From the menu, select the taper amount for the shape.

Note: Instead of selecting the Taper mode, you can press Shift+T during an operation to enable a taper.

Lazercut/Autodepth

Lazercut is the function that cuts all the way through, while the toggled Autodepth can set a fixed cut distance, which is really useful if you make a series of cuts that need to all go to a fixed depth.

So endeth the Boxcutter section of the course.