Model correction plugin or tool

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Hi!

Well, here I am, I am an architecture student. My projects are often if not always located in the region of Brussels (Belgium). There is a website that allows us to get 3D data of the city in sketchup format.

The only problem is that most of the buildings are made of a multitude of non-perfect faces that are not coplanar when they should be. So I’m looking for a plugin that would allow me to correct the faces of my model, to correct the non coplanar lines and make the model simpler.

You will find attached an example of a building with this problem.

Sketchup model error.skp (31.2 KB)

I’m looking to correct this kind of problem to work faster because it’s impossible to correct manually 10 000 buildings.

I hope I have made myself clear.

Thanks in advance for all your answers!

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Great question. If you are just looking to merge coplanar faces, Cleanup3 is just what you are looking for. Here is a link: Extension | SketchUp Extension Warehouse

Be warned! Doing that many buildings will take time and extensions are not always perfect. I recommend doing the model in smaller segments and frequently saving your work. Additionally, using the merge face command will only merge coplanar faces. if they are even a fraction of a mm off, they will not merge and will have to be fixed by hand or with another extension like artisan.

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