How do I make a Hole in a Cylinder in Blender? PART 1

The Boolean Method

This could be a round hole, a square hole or any-shaped hole

Create a cylinder with

Press to change to top ortho view.

Now, to make a hole through it, all we need to do is to make another cylinder, slightly longer than the depth – let’s say 3M in depth. That means it will stick out 0.5M above and below the first cylinder. Let’s make its radius 0.5M

Create the second cylinder with . It will be located with its origin precisely at the same position as the first cylinder’s origin because the cursor is there. This doesn’t have to be a cylinder; it could be a cube or another available shape.

Now we want to select the cylinder that we want a hole drilled through.

Next we add a boolean modifier to it by selecting the modifier properties tab in the properties editor:

The name of the second cylinder (the object you clicked) appears in the Object field, but nothing appears to happen.

Select the outer cylinder and click the drop-down arrow in the boolean modifier panel:

But there is still no change to the cylinders????? Not true. You just can’t see the change:

Tips:

• Enable the addon Add Mesh: Extra Objects in File–> Preferences to access more shapes when using Add Mesh command
• If you want to drill a perfectly round hole through your cylinder, there’s a quicker way. Click here to read Part 2