love sketchup but…
I keep having to redraw sections of my drawing.
hidden geometry keeps turning up on faces that were previously okay.
on a half completed drawing with c.85000 lines that suddenly has a gazillion new hidden geometry lines appear for no apparent reason it is a constant battle
is there a way to automatically re-snap all existing intersecting endpoints together, say when endpoints are within a distance of less than 0.1mm from each other
or
remove endpoint ‘blobs’ along an edge of a flat surface that sketchup creates after ‘fixing’ my drawing?
I would attach a few screenshots to illustrate but there does not seem to be this option on this forum!
I have only one layer in use, a newbie mistake perhaps
I haven’t any repeated components either,
it’s just been a straightforward drawing, a digital line drawing on digital paper!
I can imagine that errors are sometimes caused by pull/pull intersections not snapping properly or at least I’ve clicked the final position when the guide point has disappeared ~ easy to do with push/pull, not quite as easy with the line tool as it has a measurement tooltip to confirm it’s length etc.
however, I have some round windows extruded from a flat face that suddenly have hidden geometry lines on the flat face from the round ‘corner’ points to the edges of the flat plane that the circle was drawn on… most go to the corners of the flat plane but some go to the edges
I have also copied and pasted flat faces rather than always using push/pull,
(zooming right in on corners for the best possible positioning etc.
I have the drawing set to two decimal places in mm (using model info). (my screen resolution is 1920x1080).
it’s hard to see any errors ~ other than the really obvious misplaced lines/faces etc where an existing line may appear bold after a paste. or an intersecting blob does not appear.
A few screenshots or even better, a model would really help. Can’t you attach anything yet.
As for a simple fix, you might be better off learning the cause and how to (if possible) avoid it from happening. There even miight be a simple fix but I’m still not sure what happened. Is this issue due to small geometry? Or rushing in clicking without waiting for the inference to show first?
This can be a sign that the rounds are not quite coplanar with the surface or not quite planar themselves. Just a tiny misalignment can cause SketchUp to triangulate the surface surrounding the round.
from my limited experience, I’m guessing the endpoints are not intersecting ~ example: three separate flat faces instead of a neat corner to a cube etc.
I have tried to us the ‘inference’ cues, but can imagine the displacements occur as I release the mouse-button.
it’s hard to rule out if the mouse is moving between seeing the inference cue and releasing the button.
I use photoshop a lot with no problems, but accept positioning in 3D is a different mindset.
as I said above I do zoom in on corners and drop-points etc where the inference cue is not forthcoming.,
i’ll stop there for the mo,
all the above areas were problem free.
now deleting the hidden geometry lines deletes the faces,
they are everywhere,
I am getting the feeling I might have to start again =:(
when using the arc or circle tool it is obvious that it is aligned to the axis, red/green/blue etc and black if not aligned.
I don’t think this was the problem.
also the ‘on edge’ or ‘on face’ tooltip is always gained before drawing.
I’ve also been using whole ‘mm’ too and can see when the ‘~’ symbol appears.
