New forum user - house
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hi all,
i'm new to the forum so let me introduce myself
a ma a draughtsman and i work in the solar industry and use sketchup daily to position PV panels on roofs and avoiding shading. i used autocad before but now use it much less.
now i'm trying to do some projects in architecture.
i got plans from an architect in autocad format, they were horrendous as lines, coloums and shafts did not match up between floors. so here is my WIP for your review.
feel free to comment and criticize. i appreciate criticism
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made some more work on it but still WIP. stairs still to be made and to verify ramp and front stairs with architect.
question:
where it is marked 'this face' its not one whole face but lots of triangles so when i try to extrude it extrudes triangles. also i cant make one line as a whole and endpoints appear with the style i chose in a straight line.how can i make it one face again?
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Somehow you have managed to get some edges of that end face not quite coplanar [by a tiny amount!], so it has 'auto-folded - adding diagonals to keep the faces.
To see this use View > Hidden Geometry ON ... and you'll see dotted 'hidden' lines...
If you edit the container and use the Eraser tool most of these can be removed and the faces remain.
But a couple of lines are real creases... removing those looses the faces.
See the first image for the ones that are not simply 'removable'...All is not lost. Draw in a few long diagonals and the faces re-form.
I needed three to get it all back.
Then use the Eraser tool again to remove those three edges, with any luck the faces will merge into one face [see the second image].
There's a small 'wedge' gap at the front corner [right-side of the image] - that needs 'healing' to complete the fix...Toggle OFF View > Hidden Geometry as desired...
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thanks a lot! that solved it!
this happens a lot, when i import from autocad.
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@chrisdarmanin said:
thanks a lot! that solved it!
this happens a lot, when i import from autocad.
i assume autocad is like rhino in that the user can adjust tolerances on a per file basis..
sketchup has one tolerance for every file and it's generally overkill for most situations (millionth of an inch if you're modeling in inches)..
so if you're drawing with 1/1000 inch tolerance in an app then bring it into sketchup, it's possible for things like this to happen.. it's not a fault of either application -- just a result of using two different apps which weren't designed to be used fluidly with each other.
[edit]- this isn't meant to say the autocad file might not have some user error/sloppiness in it.. just saying that a model can be drawn 'properly and cleanly' in autocad then still exhibit errors when shown in an application with much smaller tolerance settings.
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i know what you mean,
autocad is very accurate as per this article http://www.oocities.org/wpsmoke/accuracy/accuracy.html and each file has the same accuracy
also as i said in my first post, the drawing was terrible, i received it from an architect and i had to convert it to 3d but i had a lot of problem with things not matching up etc.
thanks again
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@chrisdarmanin said:
i know what you mean,
autocad is very accurate as per this article http://www.oocities.org/wpsmoke/accuracy/accuracy.html and each file has the same accuracy
That was interesting to read!!!!! Even though I don't use AutoCAD, it is interesting what can be done in 3d.
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