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    • Dave RD Offline
      Dave R
      last edited by

      I don't know why there's a ghost of the I-beam over lapped on the shortened copy. Now you say this was part of a larger nested group that all got scaled together. Is it possible there's more important info in the model than you've included in this SKP?

      I moved the ghost over rather than deleting it for the screen shot.
      Screenshot - 2_9_2015 , 3_44_15 AM.png

      I guess I don't know what "unusual" thing you'd expect to see when dragging a right to left selection box over the unscaled copy.

      Etaoin Shrdlu

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        pipingguy
        last edited by

        "I guess I don't know what "unusual" thing..." [i was merely trying to do what you had mentioned in the prior message]

        "Is it possible there's more important info..." [i suppose so, but the moral to the story is this ghosting phenomenon can happen unless you are VERY careful with nested stuff. I just don't understand why the ghost's entities don't show up in the Outliner]

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
          last edited by

          The ghost entities don't show up in the Outliner because they are loose, ungrouped geometry within the group with the short I-beam. Loose geometry never shows in the Outliner.

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          • BoxB Offline
            Box
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            Looks to me like the ghost is a component split over two layers, faces on Layer0 and the edges somewhere else.

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R
              last edited by

              I was thinking the same thing which is why I wanted to see more of the model.

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              • S ShepherdS Offline
                S Shepherd
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                If the group is exploded, the ghost gets it's edges back. Hmmm.

                Shep

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                  pipingguy
                  last edited by

                  here is the full component - but you will not find anything wrong with it now because I fiddled with it and overwrote it it numerous times. when it went weird, was when i used the 'box stretch to target' feature of fredoscale. like i said, you need to be careful and don't rush when building nested components.


                  support structure.skp

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
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                    So you're saying there's no point in looking at it then?

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                    • BoxB Offline
                      Box
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                      My guess would be that at some stage while using Fredosale you undid an action. Sometimes I have noticed Fredo's tools aren't one step undo. His tools often group the geometry to make an action and then explode it back to it's original state. If you undo by one step you can still have a group being formed.
                      So I suspect it is somehow related to this.

                      Here is a little example of the group where no group was before.


                      Undo.gif

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                        pipingguy
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                        "So you're saying there's no point........" [no, i guess i failed to preserve a copy of the entire faulty file - except for the one piece in the first part of this post]

                        "My guess would be that at some stage ..." [i don't believe this particular stretching tool creates a new group or component]

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                          pipingguy
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                          ok - I found the corrupt file in my work pc recycle bin. apply fredoscale and use the 'box stretch to target' option. click the origin onto one of the leg's baseplate and you should see strange wireframe effects take place as you stretch/collapse the component.


                          corrupt component screencap.JPG


                          CORRUPT COMPONENT.skp

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