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    Newbie Tutorial - How to close any face in Sketchup

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    • M Offline
      MercurialArts
      last edited by

      So, when I try weld, its says pick at least 2 edges, when I try the sandbox contour method, it says I must choose contours. When I select even one line of my imported dxf the whole thing is selected with a box around it. Every line is blue. What does this mean? It would seem that all the lines are connected... but again, not a solid, no extrusion... Wha?

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        MercurialArts
        last edited by

        Ah, what a dork, yes, its a component, edit component, check for stray lines brought up 13 items, I am solid and extruded. Thanks for the tips, I just needed to figure out how to apply all those neeto tricks to my object! dxf gets imported as a component.
        I had to
        select component,
        edit menu, component, edit component
        then go through and use stray line tool and weld tool to fix it up. Tiny little problems that are super hard to see, but between repeated uses of both tools, wazambo!

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        • GaieusG Offline
          Gaieus
          last edited by

          You can also edit a component/group from the context ("right click") menu - or even better; just double click on it. If you triple click, you will end up "inside" its editing context PLUS all the geometry inside selected already.

          Gai...

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          • broomstickB Offline
            broomstick
            last edited by

            awesome video, man. You taught me something i did' nt know about stray lines, and you introduced me to projection tools 😄

            My I have your permission to do a similar video for my blog in Italian?

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            • EarthMoverE Offline
              EarthMover
              last edited by

              No problem Broomstick! Glad it was helpful. Feel free to use it as you wish.

              Here is also a quick follow up video on Closing a face with the Drape Tool.

              http://www.screencast.com/users/EarthMover/folders/Jing/media/3e2420f2-b79e-40eb-8083-720632e204b7

              3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
              Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
              Content Creator at Skapeup

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              • broomstickB Offline
                broomstick
                last edited by

                thanks you are very kind. I'll aknowledge you in the video, and post the link as soon as it is up 😄

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                • M Offline
                  mpkarch
                  last edited by

                  Earthmover,

                  I am curious to know where you got all the icons in your tutorial.

                  MPKArch

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                  • brookefoxB Offline
                    brookefox
                    last edited by

                    I posted a link to this, Adam, and send along my thanks as well. Duh... 'stray lines' was sitting lonely in my PI folder unnoticed and forgotten by me...

                    ~ Brooke

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                    • EarthMoverE Offline
                      EarthMover
                      last edited by

                      No problem. Some new plugins have been released since this tutorial that change the technique a bit.

                      Particularly "Edge Tools" from ThomThom - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=24593 has the feature Close Gaps. This is much easier than "label stray lines" as it does the work of solving the gaps as well.

                      Also another one I find helpful with a stubborn face is "Flatten & Extrude" from ThomThom. -http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=23491. Once the gaps are closed you can group the edges and run the Flatten script and it will move all the verts to the same Z and close all the faces. (TIG's "Drop Verticies" will do similar on ungrouped edges but will not close the face automatically - http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=39251)

                      Hope this helps.

                      3D Artist at Clearstory 3D Imaging
                      Guide Tool at Winning With Sketchup
                      Content Creator at Skapeup

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                      • brookefoxB Offline
                        brookefox
                        last edited by

                        Great... but given the omnipresence of the issue your tut is good enough to warrant updating and sticking somewhere! (G man 🤓)

                        ~ Brooke

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                          pisosse
                          last edited by

                          @brookefox said:

                          Great... but given the omnipresence of the issue your tut is good enough to warrant updating and sticking somewhere! (G man 🤓)

                          CONCUR...!

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                            ScrubBrush
                            last edited by

                            @xrok1 said:

                            you forgot freedo scale. scale to 0 in the z axis to make edges coplanar 😉

                            I know this is way behind the curve, but could someone put this into english for us nubs?

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              Fredo scale is a plugin (a very complex and powerful one actually) that takes a lot of SketchUp's native tools to a next level.

                              I have been reading (and approving) your posts this morning as I got up and suggest to "learn how to walk before you start running" though but of course, learning how to install and use plugins should also be in your "curriculum".

                              In short, here is Fredo scale: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17948

                              And what xrok meant here is that you can scale any loop of edges that is not co-planar to "Zero" which makes it co-planar then.

                              Here are some screenshots.


                              coplanar-1.png


                              coplanar-2.png


                              coplanar-3.png

                              Gai...

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                              • mitcorbM Offline
                                mitcorb
                                last edited by

                                And this is a DUH moment for me regarding the scale to zero trick.

                                I take the slow, deliberate approach in my aimless wandering.

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                                • GaieusG Offline
                                  Gaieus
                                  last edited by

                                  It was for me, too. Just checked it out after the question made me curious. 😉

                                  Gai...

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                                    ScrubBrush
                                    last edited by

                                    that cleared it up for me too. and looks useful, I'll add that one to my plugins.

                                    I'm past the walk stage for the most part. just can't get past the jogging stage.

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                                      AcesHigh
                                      last edited by

                                      What when you ALREADY have the faces, but you have closed shapes inside that however won´t close (profiles won´t turn to edges), so the two surfaces will become different surfaces?

                                      I have one here that I already projected onto a face, run stray lines, etc.

                                      There are no stray lines. It was projected on a surface, I also did drape it onto another surface. Retraced everything. Nothing works!

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                                      • cottyC Offline
                                        cotty
                                        last edited by

                                        You can try to select the edges and the face and make an intersection (context menu).

                                        my SketchUp gallery

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                                        • ely862meE Offline
                                          ely862me
                                          last edited by

                                          If the edges are not on the same plane, you can also make them coplanar with the Make Planar tool from Artisan, then create the face by redrawing and edge or drawing a diagonal.

                                          Sometimes if you have any leftovers inside the face it won't close unless you draw a line from that edge to the other edges or unless you erase it.

                                          If you have another shape inside the face you want to close,and if they are coplanar, just draw a couple of lines from the inside edges to the outside edges, it should close. If the inside shape/face is not connected to the newly created face, redraw a segment of it - it should intersect automatically.

                                          Elisei (sketchupper)


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                                          • R Offline
                                            rjsutton
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi
                                            This has been doing my head in
                                            I have these small holes in my model but whatever i seem to do i cant fill-get rid of ....
                                            i am trying to curve this item but it picks up the holes and amplifies them in the finished Bent object.
                                            Ive tried weld etc but my brain doesn't function like most of you guys and they just keep appearing. the model is small and have tried enlarging and fixing but same response. A
                                            could someone explain HOW and B
                                            could someone PLEASE fix this model
                                            thanks to all
                                            Richard


                                            problem holes.skp

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