Drape Buggery Splattery

thomthom · 8 Mar 2011, 10:25

I'm fed up with Drape! All too often it bugsplats - and I can not find a predictable pattern. I've spent the best part of the morning trying to drape a small piece - but it keeps splatting. Drape is probably the most unstable tool in SketchUp I've used.

I'm not the only one, right?
Has anyone found any kind of pattern to the splats?

Mra · 18 Mar 2011, 04:53

@thomthom said:

I'm not the only one, right?
Has anyone found any kind of pattern to the splats?

Usually anything more complicated than a single line.

EarthMover · 18 Mar 2011, 05:59

Must be something in the air. I'm going through the same thing trying to work out a terrain. I'm on bugsplat number 20 at least. With this project due in a few hours, I'm ready to throw my PC out the window.

EDIT- #22

TIG · 18 Mar 2011, 10:24

I've found that scaling the 'draper' and 'drapee' forms by x10 reduces [but doesn't stop] the problem.
Scale down x0.1 after draping...

EarthMover · 18 Mar 2011, 15:15

Good to know TIG thanks. Also using your extrude edges by vector script, you can pull the edges down through the mesh and perform an intersect and this will cut the edges into the terrain. This seems to be a more predicable solution.

Projection Tools also has a project edges option which will perform a pretty reliable drape. 1001 bits also has a drape tool that seems to give mix results in my testing.

gtalarico · 23 Apr 2011, 03:00

I used to not be able to drape ANYTHING in SU 8..
My work around was usually the extrudeEdge>Intersect, or paste-in-place in SU7>drape>paste-in-place back.

A few months ago I made a test file and sent it to the SU Team.
I posted their response here:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=33289

But at least for me, 8.048 seems to have fixed, 99% of the times.

gtalarico · 22 Feb 2012, 01:14

I thought SU8m2 had fixed drape bugs... I guess I was wrong
(Try draping lines in the attached file)

thomthom · 22 Feb 2012, 08:17

Attached?