Cutting Holes in Maya
Channel: 3DGO
Date: 26/02/2019

Using booleans to cut holes can seem like a good idea but often we spend more time cleaning up meshes after using a boolean than we would if we took a little bit of time to cut out the topology that we need. 

Here we compare cutting out a hole by using a boolean 
and what I call diagonal chamfering which gets us a nice hole but comprised of quads. 

Diagonal cuts
Chamfer the center vert
Delete the new face
Average the verts X 3
Done.