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I wonder if this process could be done some other way.

Lets say I want to get this result, but without boolean.

I could think of only one way and it is beveling. I make loopcut, then push one edge inside the cube and bevel it, also I used 2 more loopcuts to limit the beveling, but it does not look circular. Do you have any trick for that?

Front row:

• Subdivided Plane


• Central faces selected: Loop Tools > Circle ( or Space Bar > Circle )


• Delete appropriate faces

Back row:

• Extrude


• Bevel Modifier, angle-based, (not catching curve), Segments:2 Profile:1


• Subdivision Modifier

(Close-up of bevel result)

If you want to keep it in quads you could do something like this.

You need to activate the loop tools add-on and use the circle function.
Sorry for the poor quality gif. I hope it is clear what I did there.

Here is a brief summary.

I made a plane and scaled it x 2 so I can cut it in half later.

Added some edge loops in both directions and scaled them down in X or Y direction.

Selected a square of vertices and clicked the circle button in loop tools.

Cut out the circle, cut off half of the plane and then extruded it up.