Smooth this thread more?
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SketchUp version: 8.0.4811
Operating system: Windows 7Just getting started with SU. I'm trying to build a hollow thread according to a few tutorials I've seen.
So far I've been able to put together a section that I can copy to extend out into a full thread of any length.
(see attached)The problem is I can't seem to smooth this out anymore. Did I do something wrong here?
If I did can you point me towards a tutorial that I can
use to rebuild this shape?Thanks,
Mick
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The problem was that you had an internal face between each triangle.
It needed a lot of cleaning, but once every internal face was deleted and faces oriented correctly, it looked fine. But it's still not a solid, because the upper "sheet" does not have thickness, but at least now it is smooth.
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I'd strongly advise that you change your template to a style in which the edges are showing. At the moment you have them turned off. I'm not sure how anyone could draw anything if the lines disappear the moment you've drawn them.
The interior faces on the version you posted can be eliminated by simply dragging the eraser along the interior face of the thread (once you've turned edges on and can actually see them).
As Karina points out, once you've arrayed that shape however many times you intend to, you'll then need to make it solid by creating the geometry to enclose either end. -
I would appear to me that you turned off the edges in an attempt to make the surfaces look smooth. There's a better way.
After you do as Karina and Alan said deleting the interior edges or at least the triangles, correct the face orientation so all the outside faces are white. Blue goes on the inside. Then select all of the geometry, right click and choose Soften/Smooth to smooth the edges between the surface triangles. When you get finished, you'll have a very nice looking thread segment.
By the way, I converted it to a component and hid (Shift+Eraser) the edges at the ends so it would give the appearance of continuous threads.
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