Deleting internal faces/edges
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I'm somewhat new to sketchup and I have a model from a gamecube game I ripped and I need to take some of the faces from the inside of the model out but when I do it deletes the whole face from the inside and out of the model. I can't figure out how to divide a face and just delete the part I want. I need to make this model with no random faces cus I'm going to use Pepakura Designer to make a papercraft out of it.
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Trace around the part you need to delete to divide the face. Does that help? If not, post a picture so we can see what you need...
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Heres a photo. Not sure what you mean.
I tried using the line tool to divide it but it doesnt work right. Even when I do manage to get that part deleted the edge is still there and when I delete that the whole piece deletes.
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I see...just select that face you want to delete, then right click > "Intersect with model". That should divide the face so you can delete it (as long as the intersecting pieces are not in a separate group)
See this video to understand better:
YouTube - Google SketchUp Techniques: Intersect with Model
[flash=480,385:a4p46rxg]http://www.youtube.com/v/Ax9HY06PB8M?fs=1&hl=en_US[/flash:a4p46rxg]Does that help?
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Thanks so much:) Learning that Intersecting is what I really needed to know.
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You're welcome...glad that helped
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Ran into a problem. I was able to intersect simple shapes but my complex model after I intersect deletes some faces. Don't know why? I made sure the objects was exploded then I highlighted everything with Ctrl + A then right click and intersect with model. Theres missing faces that just delete out of knowwhere. Please help thanks:)
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That might be happening if the faces are very small...the workaround is to scale the model x10 or x100, perform the intersection, then scale back down.
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Thanks! That did. One last thing how do I scale back? type -10 if I typed 10x?
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type .1
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