Carving a flat region out of a puff?

[RobertP]

I have this little project I am messing with, and basically what I am trying to do is create a puffed carve with a cutout for a flat region to inlay a piece of aluminum plate. The problem I am having is that when I create the carved region, the floor of that region is curved as well. It needs to be flat. Any ideas on how to do this? I tried making the plate a pattern without the carved region, then apply the carved area but still get the same result.

Another thing I noticed is that once to do an invert and subtractive option that you can no longer really control the depth of the carved region. Any thoughts on both?

[mca]

Try setting the clip carving to exclusive on the puffed region. Then where the regions overlap only the flat region will be carved.

[RobertP]

Wonderful! it worked. Thank you!