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After various cookie operations I'm left with some pretty ugly geo; open faces and intersecting polys. Is there anyway to procedurally cleanup such geo so I'm able to perform further cuts succesfully?

I can group all the bad geo by colour but am not sure what I could do next. I don't want to rebuild the geo using iso surfacing as I believe I would lose the inside groups I created which I will later require for texturing.

Any suggestions would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks
S

Thanks for all your replies. Like you say I guess this notion of Houdini being difficult just really was down having construct everything from the ground up. The shelf tools have definitely made it easier and faster for simple setups. Personally now I wouldn't want to not know what was going on from the ground up. With Houdini I really feel in control of what I'm doing and my Python research is really helping to further this understanding.
Thanks again

Hi all,
I’m doing some research into Python scripting and its benefits within Houdini and would really appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right direction to find some information or answer a few of the following questions.

First here’s a little breakdown of my rationale. I’m a new Houdini user and have really been taken by the software. However I realise it can be quite difficult initially for artists to use. What I have become very interested in is how Houdini can be extended with the shelf tools, digital assets, scripts etc in order to make an artist’s workflow faster and easier.

-How can Python be used to aid artists in a very technical ‘under the hood’ program like Houdini? Shelf tools written in Python?

-What the introduction of Python means for Houdini? I.e. ways in which Python can be used in the integration between pipelines, external software packages or operating systems specifically within the VFX industry.

-H Script perhaps seems initially more intuitive and faster to create tools inside of Houdini. Is it the external links that are the most important reason for its implementation?

-Any other resources or perspectives on Python within Houdini.

Any help will be incredibly appreciated.
Thanks
Simon