<div dir="ltr">Hi Paul, <div><br></div><div>Thanks for the note. </div><div>Yes, I use guides for everything but this still comes forward occasionally...</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:themumbys@gmail.com" target="_blank">themumbys@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">I've been using sketchup heavily for years. My method around this (and I don't really ever experience this problem any more) is to use guides.<div><br></div><div>Everything in sketchup is relative to another point in space. So never use an arbitrary point in open space, or on an open face of a surface. Always join to an edge, or vertex (the UI will let you know by changing the cursor image when you're "attached")</div>
<div><br></div><div>So if you use a guide from an edge, and keep the guides within the axis of the face (sketchup allows you to drag edges of a face into a guide fairly easily). Use additional guides for the other direction to create a guide intersection. Then draw your points to intersections of guides, you always know it's in the same plane as the face.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another advantage to this method is that you can specify exact measurements for each guide creation. I tend to do almost every individual line/operation with guides, and have gotten very fast at whipping together a complex design to precise dimensions.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Let me know if you need further assistance, or have other questions, I'll be happy to help.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>- Paul</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb">
<div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@inventorartist.com" target="_blank">darcy@inventorartist.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the responses. Here's what I have so far:<div><br></div><div>1) The solution I mentioned.</div>
<div>2) Retracing part of the shape.</div><div>3) Show hidden geometry and remove lines that are cutting across your work area.</div>
<div>4) Make sure the host object isn't a group.</div><div><br></div><div>That helps most situations. </div><div><br></div><div>There's still this thing that comes up if it's just a line. This isn't a very big problem. But if you want to replicate it, make a square, then draw a line on it that doesn't meet the edges. It wont "sink".</div>
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<br><br></div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:02 PM, michel MOSCHOS <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michel.mos@rogers.com" target="_blank">michel.mos@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div style="margin-bottom:0cm"> "Etrange"! 30 or so year
ego a ssimilar problem with Autocad! (the advantage of being a
senior) it was a 2D model but they would provide a 3D perpective and
the problem would be visible. Now all 3D software use TO GEOMETRY. That is
the part side who comes to glue at the existing surface inverse-mirror the existing face. You
must have that? On your software. Michel Moschos</div>
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<div><div><div><div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:57:26 PM, cleber figueiredo <<a href="mailto:fotocrebs@gmail.com" target="_blank">fotocrebs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
</font> </div> </div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Darcy,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>I have been working with SketchUp for some good years now, and
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</div>Most of the time what I do is just reinforce one of the lines of the shape. Then, suddenly, it understands that it is a different surface and goes on.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>This problem tends to get worse when the model is more complex, or when you need to fiddle with very minute details.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div>Cheers,<br clear="none">-<br clear="none"></div>Cleber<br clear="none"></div></div></div><div><div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>2014/1/19 Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@inventorartist.com" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">darcy@inventorartist.com</a>></span><br clear="none">
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div><div dir="ltr">I often run into this odd problem in sketchup. I have a surface on which I draw a small shape. I expect the shape to be a part of the surface. So if I triple click the surface the shape gets selected. Occasionally I wind up with a shape on a surface that has not joined the surface. Sometimes I can make it join the surface by drawing a line from the shape to an edge of the surface then deleting this line. Sometimes not.<div>
<br clear="none"></div><div>Anybody had this problem?<br clear="none"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"><div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div>--</div><div>Darcy Whyte</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Art+ <a href="http://inventorartist.com/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">inventorArtist.com</a> | Aviation <a href="http://rubber-power.com/" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">rubber-power.com</a></div>
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