Select Lines Between Selected (great for broken lines)
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Intersect Selected on a contoured surface and you are going to have to strain your eyes for box selecting, or you will be copying the surface and moving it to delete unwanted (if it is less lines and less straining). Many times curves are broken up and thus not longer curves (polylines, arc, semi circles, etc.).Click the last segments before the corners on each side. Then click one of the lines inbetween to select them all.. may context click shortcut show as the command finishes automatically after all lines including the lines inbetween are -with the command- selected. weld.. as an option in context menu...or de-select option button clicked after unhighlighting two lines that are between (click extra unwanted, selected line) lines wanting deselected....somehow.so it based on selecting or de-selecting the between lines after selecting or deselecting two lines at the ends of what should be a polyline with the single button command ( or it could be next after clicked line segments) can context weld lines, or un-weld lines otherwise in 'de-select lines between deselected'context menu.. and heal broken lines (segmented linear line segments) of what should be one line segment..
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I am trying to turn arc line segments (of curves or straight lines) into a single line. I am using a MAC computer. Am I missing a command button in sketchup that would fix this or a plug-in that would mend the segments?
Many Thanks
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Sounds like you haven't found Weld.rb, yet.
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Dave is right tis plugin will weld all of those lines together but it will not make it one segment. If you export it to another cad program all of those lines will still be there. I have be wishing and looking for a plugin that would make all of those segements into 1 . especialy cercles. As our cnc machine dose not reconise sketchup's circls as a closed loop witch is what it needs for a drill operation.
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a couple of plugins to look at:
Recurve by diggsey (my fave
) .. it's weld on steroids because you can click one segment of a broken curve and it will select all the rest then weld them.. plus it doesn't have those useless popup questions that weld.rb does 
..i have both 'select curve and recurve' & 'recurve edges' assigned as shortcuts.. possibly my most used plugin..
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=36822Remove Lonely Vertices by fredo.. it doesn't recurve segments into a polyline/curve but it repairs broken co-linear lines.. a good little utility to keep around
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=37619 -
@unknownuser said:
a couple of plugins to look at:
Recurve by diggsey (my fave
) .. it's weld on steroids because you can click one segment of a broken curve and it will select all the rest then weld them.. plus it doesn't have those useless popup questions that weld.rb does ..i have both 'select curve and recurve' & 'recurve edges' assigned as shortcuts.. possibly my most used plugin..
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=36822Remove Lonely Vertices by fredo.. it doesn't recurve segments into a polyline/curve but it repairs broken co-linear lines.. a good little utility to keep around
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=37619Thanks for the link I will check It out but my question is will it take the mutable segments of a circle and /or a arch and mesh or weld or whatever them into a closed loop when exported to other cad programs.
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@scott m said:
Thanks for the link I will check It out but my question is will it take the mutable segments of a circle and /or a arch and mesh or weld or whatever them into a closed loop when exported to other cad programs.
no.. those links were aimed more at imaginearch's post..
sketchup is going to export segmented circles just like they are when they're in sketchup itself..
or, are you saying the segmented circles are ok.. it's just that when you bring them in to another program, they aren't staying joined together as a closed loop?
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