Making faces co-planar
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I have downloaded a clock face from 3d warehouse but am finding it difficult to align it correctly to glue it to a clock tower I have drawn. How do I make it co-planar with the face of the clocktower?
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If the tower face is inclined , try to measure the inclination then rotate the clock at the same angle .
I usually pick the object from the point which will touch first and move it until you reach the other object . Then rotate the object from the intersection point until it snaps on the surface .A sample model will help though !
Hope it helps !
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You have the face, presumably it is a component with axes. If not make it one. Align the axes of the component with the face axes in a way that will allow you to manipulate it the way you want to, say with red along 12-6 axis; green along 3-9 axis; blue z up through center. you may need to construct a little set of planes as well along these same axes to further help you. Now you can align the rotate tool to these faces or the clock face. Explore other ways of orienting the rotate tool, also, e.g., by click dragging on an edge.
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It is probably a component or you can make it one. Then you have the option of setting the gluing plane and once that is done it will glue automatically. You should read http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114533 . Search You Tube videos they should have some help on gluing plane also.
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See all the advice above. Also, you could post the URL of that clock face so we could give specific suggestions.
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