sketchucation logo sketchucation
    • Login
    Oops, your profile's looking a bit empty! To help us tailor your experience, please fill in key details like your SketchUp version, skill level, operating system, and more. Update and save your info on your profile page today!
    πŸ›£οΈ Road Profile Builder | Generate roads, curbs and pavements easily Download

    Fragmented Solid Face

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Newbie Forum
    sketchup
    7 Posts 4 Posters 1.4k Views 4 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • F Offline
      fatchops
      last edited by

      Hi,
      I've started modelling a building and something weird has happened to one of the faces, well one I've discovered so far.
      I tried to place a window ope in a wall and when i projected it back the shape projected in fragments, the entire face seems to have fragmented for some strange reason [well to me anyway], I have obviously done something wrong and was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions, I've run fix problems and none are reported. I have attached the model and applied a colour to one of the fragments on the face.

      Thanks in advance


      model.skp

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        If you use View > Hidden Geometry 'ON', you'll see that the wall face is split into several facets.
        You must have skewed the wall at some point by moving something sideways - even slightly - and it 'auto-folded'.
        Some of these 'hidden' [smoothed?] can be erased using the Eraser tool and the faces will heal into one - like with your 'red' one.
        But other edges are are not erasable, because the wall's facets need those to exist.
        You'll need to rebuild the distorted geometry from scratch to fully correct those.

        TIG

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • GaieusG Offline
          Gaieus
          last edited by

          It's worse than that. (TIG beat me in the meanwhile)

          You must have inadvertently moved a vertex or edge out of place and the autofold feature broke not only that but the neighbouring face into pieces. Turn on hidden hidden geometry under the View menu and see.

          At the moment, I am here (see screenshot). Since your building was not aligned to the axes, I moved the axes and turned on hidden geometry. Selected all coplanar faces of the area and what is painted red is the only facet there that is not co-planar with the rest. (Similar issues were elsewhere, too).

          non-planar.png


          model.skp

          Gai...

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • F Offline
            fatchops
            last edited by

            Thanks guys, redraw it is so and be careful of what you move.
            Thanks again

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • voljankoV Offline
              voljanko
              last edited by

              You have many distorted faces in your model (brown lines).Did you import it from another program ?


              analyse.JPG

              SuSolid.com - solid check - solid repair- solid intersection check - weight plugin

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • F Offline
                fatchops
                last edited by

                No, The plan was imported from Autocad and drawn over and then projected up so I do'nt know what happened to those faces, I think I'll just start the whole thing from scratch and see how I get on

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • voljankoV Offline
                  voljanko
                  last edited by

                  If you will start over,I suggest you to check your model often with the SuSolid plugin,and your model will be always "clean" πŸ˜„

                  SuSolid.com - solid check - solid repair- solid intersection check - weight plugin

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • 1 / 1
                  • First post
                    Last post
                  Buy SketchPlus
                  Buy SUbD
                  Buy WrapR
                  Buy eBook
                  Buy Modelur
                  Buy Vertex Tools
                  Buy SketchCuisine
                  Buy FormFonts

                  Advertisement