I am trying to draw a small 1mm radius sphere and half sphere in Sketchup online education editin and it is not working. Please help.
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May 23, 2023, 5:04am
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A sphere that small will not form using follow me. Tiny faces fail to form but can exist, so scale things up and scale down when done.
The Dave Method is the clever use of components popularized by @DaveR to avoid the tiny face issue.
Sketchup fails to form faces when edge segments get down around the 1/1000" mark. However, tiny faces can exist so the workaround has generally been to scale up your geometry, edit it, then scale back down.
This works, but can lead to some issues.
The Dave Method leverages the power of components to make life easier.
The basic concept is, you start with a component set at the size you want, t…
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