A Way to Smoothe a Jagged Line?

[BSquared18]

Hello,

In SketchUp 8, Windows XP, I was constructing a somewhat complex object. Part of the process was to intersect a cylinder with a sphere and then use Intersect Faces to delete the cutout made by the sphere.

Unfortunately the edge of the cylinder that remained after deleting the sphere is jagged. Is there a way to smooth out a jagged line of that type?

Thanks,
Bill

[Rich O Brien]

Anywhere that 2 facetted surfaces meet will result in jaggies.

Try increasing the edges on both the cylinder and the sphere to reduce the size of the segments used.

[BSquared18]

The solution that worked pretty well for me was to fill in the jaggies with little triangles and then hide the lines where they joined the main element.

Bill

[jgb]

When making fairings (among other things, such as access doors) for my airplane models I run into this jaggies frequently.

To solve it best, requires the deletion of the faces affected and redraw the interface to suit.
Curviloft plugin helps a lot as well.