This is my third time ask questions here, well, I did tried, I tried a few projects, doing work like trim a curved surfaces. It feels good when start, but with the repair area more and more, draw more lines connect to another drawn lines Finally, the curved part looks terrible. not smooth at all S…

[image] cocoatouchg: When i import an STL model into SketchUp, produced a lot of hol set the import units to meters to avoid small holes on import… fix the remaining holes, if any, before modifying the design… john

And to keep the geometry of different parts from tangling together, read the Help articles on using Components, Groups and Layers. Creating a Basic Component | SketchUp Help on creating Basic Components Grouping Geometry | SketchUp Help on Grouping geometry Controlling Visibility with Tags | Sket…

[image] cocoatouchg: When i import an STL model into SketchUp why would you do that? Can it not be drawn directly in SketchUp? [image] cocoatouchg: What I always do is put in another shape as cut tool or I just want insert another shape, then click intersect faces I would first try to…

Thanks for left comment, this trick did help! but I shrink it, even unit is meter from imports, the hole still will appear, sketchUp is not very friendly with small things My solution now is use meter as universal unit in Sketchup, magnified 1000 times, so I can still use the same digits, eg. 10.0…

Never try this before, will it damage the shape? seems hard to control but looks amazing, I will start trying use this trick, Thanks!

Thanks for mentioned, its useful! but I have a question, how to make those edits in the giant one reflected in the original?

When you create a component all changes you make in one of them will take effect to the rest. That’s why you can make it a component, create a copy, scale the copy, make changes on the copy resized and then the original one (the smaller) will be affected, this way you can delete the copy resized th…

I see, I always use Group instead Component Thanks for answering

@cocoatouchg You maybe find useful reading the little explanation about components and groups @john_mcclenahan shares here: [image] Draw new items without affecting existing geometry SketchUp And generally, use components instead of groups. As DaveR has said himself, …

How to fix uneven surface that comes from manually added line?

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spawn October 9, 2017, 9:23am 6

Hi @cocoatouchg

Glad to hear to fixed it.
You maybe find Dave Method useful.

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