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I'd like to cut a complex pattern into another shape, to produce a square shape with holes of the pattern. However the knife project in both new and older versions of Blender either fails to work at all, or works quite badly; manually extruded and filling in the missing faces also seems like it would take forever, considering the amount of vertices in the pattern. Does anyone know a quick way to cut the patterns I have into a square solid? enter image description here

Here is a mega link to the file: https://mega.nz/file/nBclFI7C#NU-CMMXmpGEs3KdE0IYdYo9GF_zXRLabwb6hya_GWwM

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You can use booleans to do that.

First select your curve and right click>convert to>mesh (you can select a specific shape by hovering the mouse over it and hitting the "L" key which selects everything connected) enter image description here

Fill in the mesh, with the everything selected, press the "F" key. To create one big face. enter image description here

extrude the geometry to thicken it up. Edit Mode > E to extrude

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You can than use that shape as a cutter by placing it through the wall or object you want to cut through. Selecting your cutter shape first > Shift click target object (the one your cutting through), and than CTRL + the "-" sign (on the NUM PAD)

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