In the tutorial he does not select the line along the axis to make it a curve. If I do it his way, I have issues with that horizontal line on the bottom. If I select everything, I don’t have issues. I’ll experiment and see if I can recreate the issue.
Did you try to redraw from 0?
If you used the Line and then at some point tried to weld it with other geometries, and then split it, it is possible that it becomes a ‘curve’, but it can be weld again after.
To clarify, a single edge drawn with the Line tool will be identified as an Edge, not a Line. if two or more edges are welded they will be identified as a Curve even if they are co-linear.
Is there a reason you are expecting to see the curve identified as a “Line”?
Firstly, I appreciate your help. I could just start all over, but that wouldn’t help me in the future. I don’t remember breaking the line. Either way, it is interesting that when I erase the line to put it there again it still calls it a curve.
You can infer this from some of the earlier replies, but it would help to understand your problem if you used standard SketchUp terminology.
In SketchUp, a “line” is an abstract, infinite geometric thing composed of a point and a direction vector. Lines exist mainly for use by extension programmers. They play no visible part in a model or its concrete (i.e. non-abstract) geometry. The things that would be called “lines” or “line segments” in many other contexts, are called “edges” in SketchUp. Alas, long ago the SketchUp Tool to create edges was named the “Line Tool” and despite being technically wrong, it has stuck ever since!
In SketchUp, a “curve” is what in many other contexts would be called a “polyline”. That is, an ordered sequence of connected edges that are treated as a single entity for operations such as selecting, moving, rotating, etc. The edges all still exist; the curve is non-geometric metadata attached to them. A SketchUp “curve” can contain edges that are colinear, making that part of the curve look like a single edge on the display.
Weld is the SketchUp operation that takes a collection of edges and makes a curve out of them. It does not create, destroy, or merge edges to create the new curve, it just gathers them together as-is.
Several of us have given you an answer but you seem to be igonoring all of us. An edge is a single straight element. If you have more than one connected edge and they’ve been welded they will be identified as a curve. The entire outline you show in your initial post will be identified as a curve, never an edge.
As I suspected you have some strange things going on in your geometry, things that don’t just happen, you must have caused them.
The bottom edge is a single straight edge and then you have welded ‘the rest’ into a curve but there is a very tiny ‘Arc’ in between the two. Not sure how your created it but probably by drawing the arc twice and missing the endpoint.
On top of that and making it more confusing you have ‘Softened’ some edges, they show as softened if you turn profiles off. If you delete the Arc before unsoftening the edges you will lose most of your edges.
Thank you so much. This solved the issue. I’m not sure what “profiles” is, but I toggled soften on and then back off on all edges. I then deleted the line and followed the rest of your actions. I looked for breaks initially. How did you find that tiny arc? Is it just from experience?
Profiles are the thick lines that surround a shape when activated in the style you are using.
It was the obvious place to look because that appeared to be where the problem was. Not to mention things don’t tend to happen in the middle of a curve or edge but at the joining point of different entities.
These are pretty basic things and why several people have already suggested you would benefit from learning the basics/fundamentals at the Campus. I’ll not post the link again as it is in an earlier reply.
Yeah, I looked near the connection points. I’m going to chock it up to experience as well. Because while running into issues doing tutorials I still have to look for help. Tutorials dont know what issues I’m going to have.
