Overlaping Lines on the same plane that don't form faces?
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Hi all,
I'm new to this forum and relatively new to SketchUp as well. At the moment the program is really making me gnash my teeth in frustration. I'm working on creating a headboard for a relatively simple bed design my plan was to draw all the necessary lines to define the pieces of the headboard and then push out the sections that I don't want... but I've been struggling to get faces that should be entirely closed to show up as faces. I've checked carefully that everything is on the same plane and that all the lines intersect, but so far I've had very little luck. It seems to be a particular problem when I use the offset tool to create curves that mirror each other. I'm sometimes able to get the faces to close by retracing the lines that are already there, but doing that is still inconsistent and is slowing my modelling to an absolute crawl and making me want to pull my hair out to boot!
I hope that explanation is relatively clear. I've attached a model of the bed I'm working on where you can see an example of the problem I'm having. In this particular example I can't get the narrow curved strip in the middle of the headboard to actually form a face. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
David
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The solution is simple, select the lines you want to intersect, or even the whole headboard and right click and select 'intersect with model' and you will notice that the faces are now selectable.
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The problem you are encountering is that you have not created a face, the curved lines are just hanging lines, their ends don't meet up with the ends of any other lines.
You could just select the two arches close to each other as well as the third one that they cut through and then "Edit -> Intersect -> Intersect with selected only". Delete the scrap ends of those curves and you have what you need.
Oh and a handy hint, if you end up with a heap of single lines instead of one continuous line then use the Weld plugin. There is also a "Explode Curve" plugin that does the opposite of Weld but I can't remember where I got it from.
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Hi Hazza, hi folks.
To explode a curve, simply do a right click on it and choose "Explode Curve" in the contextual menu.
Just ideas.
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@jean lemire said:
To explode a curve, simply do a right click on it and choose "Explode Curve" in the contextual menu.
ahhh..... I already know how to explode a curve, I have that many plugins that I thought it was one of them.
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Just a quick thank you, to those who answered. I appreciate you taking the time to answer simple questions, it certainlymade the whole process much less frustrating.
-David
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