Text holes on polygon cylinder - boolean operation Maya 2010

I have been trying to m开发者_StackOverflowake letter holes on a polygon cylinder. I have made the letter through Text option. I set the height a bit bigger than the height of the cylinder.

Then, using the Boolean Operation I tried to remove the letter from the cylinder, in order to make the hole. Both objects, cylinder and letter disappeared, although the letter should only be disappeared.

This video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc50WFjyynQ shows what I am trying to do, but instead of removing the object, I am trying to remove the 3D Text(which I made with Bevel option).

Any advice will be helpful.

Thank you

Well you can use a trial version of Rhino, and you'll get a model as you expect with the booleans.

On the other hand, using booleans for modeling is not a good practice, you can still use Maya and make either bump maps or displacement maps

See this video and this

Maya boolean operations are very bad.

Try it with nurbs and "project curve on surface"... After working with nurbs you can convert the object to a polygon object and edit it further.

Or you can attend the beta of the Boole plug-in from ticket01