Can't push/pull to solid
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Hi there! I'm pretty new to Sketchup, I had some classes at my school for the basics. I tried to work on a projet which I thought would be easy, but I'm stuck and I don't know what to do! I did my vector work in Illustrator, everything seemed alright when I imported it. I push pull, it says that it's solid. When I put my two shapes together and try to do an outer shell, there's holes everywhere. And when I want to save my file, Sketchup says that there's error and that it should be able to fix it. And when I try, it's just cutting some of my edges. What did I do wrong?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gdenkl8mj5256h7/Triss%20Merigold.skp?dl=0
I really appreciate any help you can provide!
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You are experiencing the SketchUp tolerance issue.
SketchUp has a built-in tolerance of 1/1000"
Which is fine for almost every day to day creation operation.
When creating geometry, if two points are closer than that, then SketchUp assumes they are coincident and does not make the tiny edge that might have joined them.
Since faces need a continuous loop of edges to exist, then any related tiny facet is also missed.Looking at your SKP I see that it appears to be jewelry ?
Perhaps for 3d-printing ?
There are some very tiny edges in it.
Operations like follow-me or solid tool operations like shell etc, will fail with tiny geometry as there will be missing geometry.
The trick to this is to scale the object, do the operation [which succeeds at the larger size] and scale down afterwards - the tiny geometry can exist but it cannot be created from scratch.The simplest way is to make the object[s] into a component, then copy that to one side and then scale that copy up, by say x100 or even x1000.
Edit the larger one and do the shell or other operations.
These will succeed at the bigger size.
Anything you do inside the larger one is replicated in the smaller one.
Exit the edit.
Select the bigger version and delete it.
Look at the smaller version and you will see the same changes - the tiny geometry has survived... -
OMG I LOVE YOU. Thank you so much! I didn't think it was that simple, thank you so much for the explanations! Still have a lot to learn.
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