Generate edge from face or hidden geometry

[mazh045]

Hi everybody,

I was wondering how to generate edge from faces or hidden geometry. Actually, I made a followme from a circle with 12 edges on a curve, but it doesn't generate the edges (surface is plain).

So is it possible? I tried to generate edges with the plugin join and push tool, without a real success.

Best regards,

[sdmitch]

@mazh045 said:

Hi everybody,

I was wondering how to generate edge from faces or hidden geometry. Actually, I made a followme from a circle with 12 edges on a curve, but it doesn't generate the edges (surface is plain).

So is it possible? I tried to generate edges with the plugin join and push tool, without a real success.

Best regards,

Followme automatically softens the edges to produce a surface. If you want the edges to show, choose View>Show Hidden Geometry. Select the hidden edges you want to convert to normal edges. Open the Ruby console window and paste the following one-liner. Press Enter to execute.

Sketchup.active_model.selection.grep(Sketchup;;Edge).each{|e|e.soft=e.smooth=e.hidden=false}

[Dave R]

It might be that turning on Profiles in your style's edge settings would take care of the issue.

With profiles turned off, you can wind up with this sort of thing.

But with Profiles turned on (and set to 1) curved surfaces will look like this.

Using hidden Line for the face style makes this appear a bit more dramatic than it will in other face styles but the same thing happens with those other face styles.