Blender slicing tips

I not new to blender, just very inexperienced. I am trying to do a project with a prebuilt model and was having trouble slicing it. I was trying to edit and bisect, and couldn't really get it to work. I was able to get it to work once, but couldn't figure out how to get it to replicate. Anyways, here is a quick step process to get it to work if you need to slice up an already existing model.


Thanks Ben and @refa42 for the start.

Blender 2.76b

1. Add > Mesh > Plane
2. Scale and orient as desired
3. Place where you want to cut
• For precise placement:
• Right click on plane to select
• Display and edit object (orange cube tab in properties)
• Change location, rotation and scale as needed
4. Select model to slice (right click or left click in "All Scenes" tab of Outliner)
5. Display and edit modifiers (wrench tab in properties)
6. Click drop-down for "Add Modifier"
7. Navigate and click: Generate > Boolean
8. Operation: Difference
9. Object: (Select plane name)
10. Shift+d (duplicates selected object)
11. Left click to place exactly where the other one is (don't move mouse just left click)
12. Under modifiers tab click apply
13. G to move and place (or use precise placement in step 3 above)
14. Rename
15. In outliner window under "All Scenes" change modifier from Difference to Intersect
16. Apply modifier
17. If making multiple cuts, duplicate plane move
18. Shift+R replicates
19. I like to delete plane already used

I will try and do a screencast and/or photos if I can figure out how.

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Enjoyed this one
http://www.lifebuzz.com/10-lessons-from-navy-seal/#!Rs3NR

Obedience

"Nothing will ruin a boy's view of God like a set of parents who demand obedience to God's commandments and then don't follow through with it themselves. " - #CliffGraham - Call of Duty p121

The Last Jihad

Reading part of the preface...
"Do we truly understand that the forces of evil are preparing to strike us again when we least expect it? Do we truly gasp that the ultimate goal of the jihadists is not to terrorize us but to annihilate us? Are we willing to take any actions necessary to defend Western civilization from extinction? Or are we going to elevate peace over victory, retreat from the world, and simply hope for the best?"

Makes you wonder about not just jihadists, but of evil, of Satan and that he doesn't just want to terrorize us, but to annihilate us. Ultimately that means rendering us useless, whether we are dead and where people eventually forget us, or where we are totally ineffective in proclaiming the Gospel.

What will you do to make a stand?

Synology

This isn't a new religion or anything, but it is a great NAS! I have had this NAS for maybe a year and i love it. My DS211j is still not organized, or fully utilized, but hopefully some day it will get there.

The DS was easy to setup and even easy to update. I only purchased one hard drive of a two bay system, but I do like it. This past week, I finally convinced Laura that we needed that second HD to backup our data, so I am currently in the process of seeing if i can get it to where i can RAID it.

I tried expanding and adding a group, but it would always create a separate volume that would not allow it to be managed and changed to a RAID. Finally i decided to try to expand my current volume...we shall see.