Hi everyone,
I am an interior designer so I draw up lots of floorpans, elevations and furniture. I use the freehand pencil tool quite often. These lines seem to have disappeared. I was using this account on my old MacBook, I bought a newer one, downloaded the sketch up app, logged into my pro account and when I’ve opened my existing client files the freehand pencil lines have disappeared. Does anyone know how to get these back please?
Thank you!
Laila
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What version of macOS is the new laptop running?
Do you have an M2 or M3 MacBook?
Have you tried switching to the old graphics engine?
FURNITURE & ACCESSORY TEMPLATE copy.skp (8.1 MB)
Hopefully I have uploaded it correctly!
I wanted to add screenshots of the file from my iPad where you can see what it should look like and what’s missing. But won’t let me add more than one file so I’ll do that on my next reply.
Thank you!
Hi,
macOS Sonoma Version 14.3
M3
No, I only bought this laptop a couple of days ago
Have you been using ‘3D Polylines’ in an older version of SketchUp? Like with the ‘Freehand’ drawing tool combined with holding down [Shift] or the equivalent for Mac?
They don’t exist as such, (3D Polylines are not an option to create in todays SketchUp versions) as previous entities but may still show up in your model.
Why are you using a 3D program with only 2D drawings? They seem to bloat every model that you will create with them.
OK, waiting for your second file.
In the meantime, here is what I get with SU 2022 on my 2017 Macbook Pro running MacOS Ventura 13.7.1
I am just wondering why tou have positioned your model more that 230 feet from the axes origin?
This should not cause the problem but I take the habit of modelling close the the axes origin unless I have a reason to do otherwise.
FURNITURE & ACCESSORY TEMPLATE copy - JL V2017 - 2024-11-21.skp (7.5 MB)
Ah this has worked! The freehand lines are back… although this time they are slightly ‘fuzzy’ is there a way I can Smooth the freehand pencil lines?
Thanks so much!
You can play with the anti alias settings, it might help.
Sorry where do I find that?
Also - one more thing - I use this furniture and accessory template to copy and paste items onto my floorpans - when I have copied and pasted it onto another file - the freehand line drawing is gone again…
I wonder if it has anything to do with incorrect tag usage. ALL edges and faces in the model should be created and remain untagged. Only groups and components should be given tags.
I would also suggest that you create components for each of the objects in this file and save them into a local components collection. Making them components would make them easier to handle in your project and bringing the components in from the Components panel would make placing them easier.
Same place in that image I posted…
