Hi Folks!
I’m just getting started with SketchUp so please forgive my ignorance.
I’ve been working on on my first project and I can’t seem to make faces on some of my components. I’ve tried re-drawing the lines and several extensions with limited success.
Below is a skp for you to have a look at.
Many thanks -Martin
1st table.skp (103.1 KB)
I can see a few sorts of issues that suggest you made some early oopses and then went astray attempting to fix them.
You have created some peculiar and excessive nesting of groups and/or components. For example, the Small Foot Stretcher component has four groups in it that all duplicate the same set of edges and faces. In that same component there is a group that nests a component named “bottom” that contains just edges. Nearly all of your components and groups show this kind of over-complicated and redundant structure.
The excessive nesting and duplication can make it confusing just what you have open for edit. I suspect you have been trying to create faces using some edges from “bottom” and other edges from the other nested groups. That won’t work! All the edges bounding a face have to be in the same group or component as the face.
At the upper right corners of the “Another Leg” component (or maybe the “New Leg” component nested in it), there are some tiny mismatches between the edges that become visible if you zoom way in. They wreak havoc when you try to complete faces because unless zoomed way in you don’t know which one of the possible vertices the inference engine may snap to. All the edges must be coplanar before a face can form, and that is hard to assure when there are multiple end points so close together.
There are also places where edges are not coplanar. You can search for these by drawing diagonal edges across where you thought should be a face. If two triangles fill in but disappear when you erase the diagonal, the other corners are not coplanar. For example, on the side of the small foot stretcher:
I’d start by exploding the duplicate nested groups until you get all connected edges and faces into the same edit context. Then try some diagonals to check for coplanar. Finally, if diagonals won’t create faces, zoom in very carefully and closely and look for extra spurious edges that don’t quite meet. Determine which are correct and delete the rest, redrawing some if necessary and being very careful about waiting for inference snaps before you click to start or end an edge.
Hi there!
Thank you very much for your reply.
Yes, it’s a bit of a mess. A lot of this was done late last night as frustration and fatigue was setting in.
Another forum member was kind enough to offer a shared screen session where he rebuilt the whole thing for me whiles sharing his knowledge on how to do it.
Still lots to learn. Thank you for your help.
All the best -Martin
