Strange face !!
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Hi all,
I've got some issues with sketchup faces.
Here are some explanations about the linked file's "life".I get a 3D terrain from google earth with sketchup (used "get current view")
I unlock all object and remove data on Layer named "google earth snap shot".
Next, I select 3D terrain and explode it (contextual menu).
At this stage, I'd like select one face but I can only select all the surface (why????) and display bounding edges (contextual menu/select/bounding edges) which seem hide (discontinuous lines)!!
Anyway, I continu to dissect my terrain. I use "Add Detail" tool (from sand box) on terrain.
Now some edges are always visible, some still hide. All faces are triangle and can be separatly selected, but as I write just before, all their edges are not visible.
Finally, I choose to isolate one face without visible edge. so I delete all other faces and edges except my chosen strange face. I've joined the sketchup file with this face.This face is strange because :
When I unhide its edges, I can't select separatly these edges. Why ????
When I analyse the entities in the model with a ruby script, there are 1 face and 4 edges. Why ????Is someone could "give me the light" about this strange face?
Thanks
Regards
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Welcome PascalHenry,
The edges of the face are on the "Google Earth Terrain" Layer. If you turn the layer back on (or delete the Layer,) the edges are there.
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Hello Jim,
Thank you.
Actually it was too easy!
But hide entity feature seems to be a little bit confusing
when we switch layers...
Thanks again -
Henry, one thing you always need to keep in mind; layers don't separate geometry in SU at all - they just control visibility. Therefore if you have basic ("primitive", "raw" - i.e. ungrouped) geometry within your model, you shouldn't put different parts of it on different layers because these parts - though on different (sometimes hidden) layers - still interact with each other. See this video for basic ideas and mistakes to avoid:
[flash=425,344:3m1el3he]http://www.youtube.com/v/fBdP499iw0Y&hl=en&fs=1[/flash:3m1el3he]
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