[Lab] sketchup experts?

[Darcy Whyte]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the note.
Yes, I use guides for everything but this still comes forward
occasionally...



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On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>> Darcy Whyte
>>
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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?
>>>
>>>
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