Let’s try this.
It’s downloading now.
I can’t tell which face it is when I’m looking at your model.
Looking at your model, I wonder if this is just a case of SketchUp doing what it is supposed to do. If you were moving the face I’ve indicated by the arrow in a horizontal direction, the other geometry would be distorted because it is attached to the moving face.
That face doesn’t exist anymore in the model I sent you, It was here, the hole in the floor.
Next time this happens maybe I can upload the model right after it happens?
Yeah. Try that.
Ok, will do. The only thing I can think of is this started happening after I got FlexTools. It happened mostly to wall geometry when moving a window. But the current model doesn’t have anything from FlexTools in it.
Well that didn’t take long. I think this should work through google drive now, if not I will put it on dropbox.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1T6e0o2EXqiZsg2uIpDGoTk2mcIp1YQIC
Still no permission to access the file.
Here is a dropbox link
Going into a meeting now, but hopefully this works.
BTW, my DD models and CD models are WAY cleaner than this, these are rough SD models. I have had this movement happen in CD models too.
OK. I can see the problem geometry but I can’t tell what you were trying to move. It looks like you were trying to move a face with a bunch of other faces connected to it or you selected a bunch of stuff to move.
That’s correct, but it I was trying to move it 12" to the side and was locked on the red axis. Its like SketchUp decided to move my mouse taking me off axis and then moved a random distance, the trouble is, I didn’t move the mouse and my axis was locked. This time it made a big mess.
You weren’t holding Alt while moving were you?
When I try to move the face I think you were trying to move in the red direction it moves fine. If I hold Alt to invoke Autofold, it easily goes off axis especially if inferencing takes over and tries to inference to some other point in the model.
No alt pressed.
Hmmm… That’s the only way I can deform the geometry like you are showing. I don’t use FlexTools and I’m not sure that they would have anything to do with it but since you mentioned them how about disabling them in Extension Manager, quitting and restarting SketchUp so they aren’t loaded and then try the move thing again.
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Hi Kyle, I looked at your model and tested moving several different edges. They all behaved as I would have expected. Could you upload your model before the behavior in question? Then with an uploaded screenshot let us know which edge you are trying to move 12in. We can then reproduce and see what happens and advise.
Thanks.
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Thanks for Checking for me, it seems to happen at random times in random locations. So I can’t reproduce it. It happened 3 times today, modeling for about 4 hours. Luckily it didn’t happen in front of the client, although most of that time was just orbiting.
I’ll try that and see if it happens. The more I break up the model the less the error makes a mess.
@KyleMacht, When you say “break up the model” does this mean the more you make groups/components?
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It’s probably worth splitting the geometry into more groups or components anyway.
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