Faces All Reversed
-
Hi All,
First post here that I know of...been using SU for many many years, though.
I think someone has to have asked this question before but I must be searching for the answer poorly.
I have a model...not every model...that I am too far into to start over and somehow, every single face I create is backwards. I have to reverse every face. I can't figure out what I did that I am now somehow in an alternate universe inside my model.
The only think I can think of that I did is I rotated the model (of a house) to be correctly oriented to the sun after importing a cad background. But I can't see how that would do it. I did not rotate the axis.
Anyway, I've had this happen before but never on anything really important...
It's not an insurmountable issue but just curious if someone knows what I did and/or if there is a cure.
Thanks!
Ron
-
When you create a face the order of adding the vertices dictates the face's orientation.
Except if the face is on the ground, flat at z=0; then it always faces downwards irrespective of the direction cw/ccw of its vertices... This is because SketchUp assumes you will want to PushPull it upwards and leave a base face in place.
The right-click context-menu 'Reverse' becomes available in the command list for making a Shortcut [under Preferences] if you have a face selected when first opening Preferences...
It is highly recommended that you have a shortcut to 'Reverse', 'Orient' is also very handy... -
Now that TIG has explained what is going on in your model... I would offer some tools to fix what has been done.
TIG Fix Reversed Face Materials.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30107&hilit=reverse+faces+toolFredo Tools (reverse face orient)
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=42089ThomThom UV Tool Kit
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=18992Thomthom Material Tools.
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17587&start=90and there are others too...
Hello! It looks like you're interested in this conversation, but you don't have an account yet.
Getting fed up of having to scroll through the same posts each visit? When you register for an account, you'll always come back to exactly where you were before, and choose to be notified of new replies (either via email, or push notification). You'll also be able to save bookmarks and upvote posts to show your appreciation to other community members.
With your input, this post could be even better đź’—
Register Login
Advertisement