Ok, so first post, forgive me if this is a little botched and in the wrong area.
So, I am attempting to create a cylinder in SU from measurements recorded in an excel spreadsheet.
My issue is that the datapoints that I have are measured from the center of the cylinder to the outside wall. When I try to plot these by using my measurements as the x axis, manually entering the z axis for height, and entering the radian from which it was taken as the y, they come out as individual lines on the grid, instead of arranged in a circle, and you know, cylinder-y
I know there’s probably a very easy way to do this, but for the life of me, I’m stuck.
You could plot the points on the edge of the “circle” and join them with line segments. Keep in mind that any curve in SketchUp is represented by a series of straight line segments. Despite having exact distances (radii) to points on the curve or circle, the lines between points will be at some other distance.