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    • J Offline
      jalba
      last edited by

      guess i'll have to go by trial and error.
      but...uhh....dumb question.....how to display hidden edges?

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        Anssi
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        @jalba said:

        guess i'll have to go by trial and error.
        but...uhh....dumb question.....how to display hidden edges?

        View menu>Hidden geometry

        Anssi

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          Gaieus
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          @jalba said:

          guess i'll have to go by trial and error.

          And step by step. Don't worry, it's the same for everyone at the beginning. You'll get it eventually.

          Gai...

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          • J Offline
            jalba
            last edited by

            ok...ew issue...
            i adjusted my countour lines on Autocad with each step up @ 1m. Checked a side view of it and everything was planar.

            When i import it however, some of the lines are sent off canter. Quite annoying!!!!

            How can i correct this?

            you can see the lines that are of canter by watching the side view. please not that each contour is at a 1m interval.


            henderson.skp

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            • C Offline
              caddict
              last edited by

              not sure what you mean by off canter

              first thought...in SU are you viewing in orthographic (camera>parallel projection)

              i guess you are refering to some of the contours sitting many metres above the main group.

              difficult to find an explanation for this...are these misplaced lines properly placed in the autocad file?

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              • Chris FullmerC Offline
                Chris Fullmer
                last edited by

                I took the terrain and moved those stray lines straight down until they into the topography where I thought they would go (I could have mis-placed them). Then I ran from contours over the whole thing. And I tidied up the edge on the left by erasing some lines that were created, but not accurate.

                Take a look at it and see if that is about what you want.

                Chris


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                • J Offline
                  jalba
                  last edited by

                  hehehe you won't believe this but the reason those particular lines were offseting too much was because in the original Acad document, they were classed as 2D polylines instead of normal polylines!!!! lolz

                  Exploded them and reformed them as normal polylines. Reimported and everything is back to normal.

                  Thanks anyways peeps!!!

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                  • Chris FullmerC Offline
                    Chris Fullmer
                    last edited by

                    Oh I'd believe almost anything. Especially when it comes out of autocad..... πŸ˜„

                    Chris

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                      jalba
                      last edited by

                      @chris fullmer said:

                      Oh I'd believe almost anything. Especially when it comes out of autocad..... πŸ˜„

                      Chris

                      HAHAHA!!!! low blow for the acad. You know no matter hw many times i try to figure out 3D rendering in Acad, it is still such a bitch!!!

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                        sowmya
                        last edited by

                        sandbox is sucj a fantastic tool... i a doing a major complicated counctry side countours and its pure magic. One feature which would be handy is when its processing to make the contour, a STOP button to cancel the process if needed...

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