Good question…I don’t see any model that he uploaded in this discussion! Did you get it via a Private Message?
Very Sorry!!! My mistake. It was you that made the fixes. Huge thanks. What did you do ??
Three things:
- I deleted the distant construction line. Probably the easiest way for you to do that would be to delete all construction lines using the Edit->Delete Guides menu item. Regard construction lines (aka Guides) as temporary things that you delete as soon as you are no longer actively using them. They are easy and fast to recreate if you need them again. Also, one can usually avoid the need for them altogether by learning to use SketchUp’s inference system effectively.
- I changed to perspective projection and did zoom-extents (when you first change the model will seem to vanish because the parallel projection camera got moved a huge distance from the model due to that construction line. Parallel projection masks this kind of camera behavior)
- I moved the model contents to the origin (not really essential as they weren’t drastically far away, just for tidiness)
- I put all edges and faces onto Layer0. This is quite tedious if you do it one-by-one, but there are various plugins such as TIG’s layer watcher that will do it for you in bulk.
Edit: ack! That’s four! There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count and those who can’t
Thank you so much. I have just tried the first three on your list and it has fixed the problem in my original model. I will be careful not to create any random lines like that again. I dont know how I created it but it was clearly causing problems.
Huge thanks again. I owe you one !!
All the best
Jamie