Previously Dave has helped me with this subject and his post is here:
I am trying to use the Eneroth Solid Tools to create holes in some solid shapes I have created. Before I add cylinders, Solid Inspector reports no problems.
I have grouped the faces of each solid shape before starting.
When I use the Trim tool, it cuts a hole through one solid shape and then I start getting messages that something is not a solid on the other solid shape.
This seems to be very similar to the example Dave gave before, so why is this a problem?
The strange thing is that the three cylinders are copies so I donât know why one would not work properly.
Replicated your model and have no problem âdrillingâ the holes with Enerothâs Solid Tools. Might be best to post your model to cut down on the guessworkâŚ
Well the end of the trail for me⌠canât open your SU2019 model. Itâs good practice if your posting a model for help to save a copy of your model back to an earlier SU version. You can get more assistance that way. Not everyone is running the 2019 version. The path is SketchUp > File > Save As . There is a drop down menu in the save window that allows you to pick the SU version, SU8, SU2015 etc.
I also observe that Trim Tool (from Eneroth Solid Tools) has problems with this.
However, the native Trim Tool (from the native Solid Tools) works perfectly fine in this case.
From previous experiences I have found that the native Solid Tools and Eneroth Solid tools behave different on various cases. None of then are perfect, in certain cases both will fail.
Thus, it is good to have both tool sets installed, often this solves the problem at hand.
According to your demonstration, when you remove the tube and create the hole, there are lines inside. Does this mean that there is a problem? When I have done this type of thing in the past, that has indicated that something it not right.
I use 3mm radius hole cutters fairly often as I remember and donât really have any trouble with them. So in theory your 4mm radius should work.
First I tried drawing a fresh 4mm radius cutter and that cut fine. Then I inspected your cutter to see the difference and you somehow have 4 extra planar edges on the cylinder. I reckon this could possibly be making the geometry too small to produce the solid output I got with mine. I donât know how you ended up with that edge.
To test, turn on hidden geometry and erase the 4 edges that donât connect to a vertex. Then try the solid tool againâŚ
Thereâs also a slight issue with the vertices of the cutters being âoff axisâ. Thatâs nothing to do with the issue of solids but its always better to draw circles âon axisâ for numerous reasons. To fix that for this one you could just rotate the cutters so the vertices lie âon axisâ before using Solid Tools.
For a tiny hole like that thereâs absolutely no need for 96 sides. SketchUp wouldnât actually draw a small circle like that with 96 sides. It would give you that message and revert to the default 24-sided circle.
