I am trying to flatten geometry on to a flat plane. DRAP is useless as ever. It creates an image of the lines on the plane but refuses to create surfaces. It really frustrates the ■■■■ out of me. Even drawing over the lines after any gaps have been closed does not create the surfaces. I have tried …

Have you tried “Edge Tools2” by Thom Thom to close any gaps and then Eneroth’s “flatten to plane” and “face creator”

YES. I use Edge Tools first to close the millions of gaps that DRAPE creates. and then flatten to plane. I will try face creator. It isn’t an extension that I know. Thanks

hello, can you attach your file so we can see what you are dealing with ?

Once you have the image of the lines on a plane try Eneroth’s Face Creator. It works perfectly for me. If that doesn’t work theres something wrong elsewhere. If the lines are in a group you will need to explode them.

[image] Grey: Enroth’s Flatten to Plane, still not joy and even Fredo scale set to 0 Both of these methods work fine. Drape would not be my go-to for this, it’s built for another purpose. How small is your mesh? Upload the .skp of the geometry you are trying to flatten,

Another option is to set the view to orthographic and export it to DWG. Then reimport that view. There is antoher plugin from @alsomar called FaceUp https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/0a0dd4c6-55c2-4975-bac9-a0ecf49ddaa1/FaceUp

Try method #2 of this post. [image] Is it best to have a separate file for each sheet of a drawing set? First-time user of LayOut LayOut No Problem Samuel slight_smile As for the lines being out-of-plane, there are two tricks you can try. Draw a flat plane underneath a…

[image] paul.millet: hello, can you attach your file so we can see what you are dealing with ? +1 we don’t know what you’re dealing with, the scale, the complexity.

Hi All, Thanks for your help you are all stars. I have sorted it out. I am still not sure what the issue is but it seems that the lines were coplanar after using Flatten to plane. SU would not create a separate surface for fully closed areas even if I traced over the lines. Once I deleted all the…

Thanks, I have just taken a look at it. It looks like a really useful extension.

Flatten to plane

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Try method #2 of this post.

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