At the end of my rope!

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One of the main issues has always been having Length Snapping active, disable it.
Be wary of trusting Color By Axis, it is known to have sloppy tolerance.

I have no issues using it for very complex 3D Printing.

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This may be anecdotal, but I’ve hardly seen this problem in recent times, though I have in the past. One thing I do differently now is most of the time when I import DWG drawings from 2D CAD, I just use them as a tracing guide and draw my model from scratch with native tools in SU. I also keep raw geometry on Untagged/Layer 0.

BTW, SketchUp’s DWG import doesn’t follow the company’s own policy about raw geometry on Layer 0. It labels all raw geometry with the DWG layer it’s on and then group’s the whole file on Layer 0. If they followed their own advice, the drawing elements themselves should be Untagged/Layer 0, and then everything on each layer should be grouped with the Tag/Layer of the DWG layer, and then group the whole thing.

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@RTCool Yes Yes and Yes.

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Same as I do.

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Yea, I agree with what many people are saying here, a lot of what you are experiencing @ksarch_CDG_TSA_2 is due to a lack of experience. If you’re using the program professionally or looking for the most efficeint workflow, than there is no better result than to pair native tools with a variety of sketchup plugins. Sketchup plugins are really where you can be efficient and productive. Part of the problem is that you first need to know what plugins are out there and than of course how to use them properly. Once you konw those things, you can be seriously productive in your design process. Like any serious design program, there is a steep learning curve, sketchup has probably one of the easiest learning curves out there, but there is a serious learning curve in finding out what plugins are out there, which ones are the best and how to use them. If you take the time to learn that though, you’ll be laughing in the long run. One amazing plugin for example is the Vertex tools 2 plugin. That’s just 1 of probably 50 amazing plugins for architects.

A great way to cleanup edges is to download the cleanup plugin and hotkey the erase stray edges I believe is what that’s called, I use it all the time, it deletes all coplanar edges, sometimes you have to delete an edge from a connection to cleanup the entire selection of coplanar edges, but that tool alone has saved me so much time when modelling.

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