Lines and faces breaking up, dont know why.

cdde

Hello,

I am very new to SketchUp and I'm running into a problem that I'm hoping I can turn off some how...

SketchUp keeps breaking lines and faces up into multiple parts with either 1.) no apparent reason or 2.) following a texture.

To get an over view of what I'm doing, I'm trying to photo match a drawing of a castle.

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/7642/picture6xm1.png

In the picture below (this would be the very top of the structure) it's breaking the square up into 2 parts. You can see one half is selected, the other is not. There is no geometry inside that square that would cause that separation line and I don't think its a plane issue... it seems random.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/5731/picture4bn9.png

In this picture, it's breaking the face into 2 parts because part of it has the photo match texture projected on it... the other half does not. This is not useful for me... I want the entire face and/or line to be selected by default.

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/1695/picture5wq8.png

Is there an option to turn this off? I've looked but I can not find...

Please! and Thank you!

ridix

This may not be the answer, but surface do get cut up when photo match photo is projected to surface and part of photo image is missing. Here is quick image I made with cut mark at the edge of photo:

cdde

If that was the case, is there away to reverse the damage? To re-merge all the lines/faces that where cut up by the texture?

cdde

Well, I solved my problem...

I was blind and did not see the "Show Hidden Geometry" option...

Now I just need a way to select all hidden geometry at once and "Delete!" =D Can this be done?

Gaieus

Hi Craig - and welcome.

Unfortunately there is no way to select only hidden geometry, however there can be a "workaround". For this, download and install TIG's InvertSelection.rb from here:
http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_sel_page.htm
and follow these steps:

Select everything by a selection box (not triple clicking - it would select hiden geometry s well!)
Go to View and turn on hidden geometry (notice that it is NOT selected)
use the script to invert your seletion - i.e. all hiden geometry will be selected now and non of the visibly geometry.
Press Del(ete)

cdde

Thanx! That should help quite a bit...

I'm going to have to read a bit more though, I'm on OSX and don't see a plugin folder... I imagine its hiding somewhere though.

pbacot

@cdde said:

I'm on OSX and don't see a plugin folder... I imagine its hiding somewhere though.

The path is Macintosh HD (whatever your hard drive is called)/Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 6/SketchUp/plugins