[Lab] sketchup experts?

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

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.

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")

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.

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.

Let me know if you need further assistance, or have other questions, I'll
be happy to help.

- Paul


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:16 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the responses. Here's what I have so far:
>
> 1) The solution I mentioned.
> 2) Retracing part of the shape.
> 3) Show hidden geometry and remove lines that are cutting across your work
> area.
> 4) Make sure the host object isn't a group.
>
> That helps most situations.
>
> 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".
>
> Darcy
>
>
>
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>
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>
> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:02 PM, michel MOSCHOS <michel.mos at rogers.com>wrote:
>
>>  V
>> "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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   On Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:57:26 PM, cleber figueiredo <
>> fotocrebs at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  Darcy,
>>
>> I have been working with SketchUp for some good years now, and it seems
>> to me that this is just a little something that happens, even on very
>> simple models.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> This problem tends to get worse when the model is more complex, or when
>> you need to fiddle with very minute details.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> -
>> Cleber
>>
>>
>> 2014/1/19 Darcy Whyte <darcy at inventorartist.com>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Anybody had this problem?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Darcy Whyte
>>
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>>
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