Strange Artifacts Appearing

Trip12091 · 11 Feb 2017, 21:59

Hello All,

All day I have been having strange artifacts appearing in GSU 2017 such as this...

Every other facet, face, line, plain, etc executed perfectly, except this one area.

I have also been having ghosting of mesh where a mesh will sort of appear, but not really (should be a closed wall but rather the walls fade to invisible and then I can see the inside of the entity (this is not a "viewing from far away issue"). The pieces of the wall (mesh) will lack definition and have no definitive outline. Often, the shading is just wrong too. X-ray viewing is distorted too, but show nothing there to cause it. This is confirmed by all the other viewing methods too.

I have shut down and rebooted twice.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

Trip

Rich O Brien · 11 Feb 2017, 22:36

Are you modelling to scale? If so scale the object 100x.

SketchUp doesn't like faces 1mm or below.

Dave R · 11 Feb 2017, 23:31

That looks like it could be graphics card related. What is your graphics card?

As Rich suggested, for small objects its best to work on it at a larger scale.

@unknownuser said:

...appearing in GSU 2017...

What is "GSU 2017"?

Rich O Brien · 12 Feb 2017, 10:16

@dave

GSU is Gimble SketchUp. The face you make when SketchUp does weird things.

Dave R · 12 Feb 2017, 10:28

Thanks for the clarification, Rich.

Trip12091 · 12 Feb 2017, 18:40

Thanks for the feed back guys!

Yes, I have been modeling to scale for use with 3d printers, which, as you know, are not huge. Scaling-up recently resolved another issue. I guess that should become SOP moving forward.

Thanks again!

Oh, so, should I not use GSU for "Google SketchUp"? Every industry and ever tool has it's own nomenclature

Thanks!

Trip

Dave R · 12 Feb 2017, 18:52

@trip12091 said:

Oh, so, should I not use GSU for "Google SketchUp"? Every industry and ever tool has it's own nomenclature

It hasn't been "Google" SketchUp for nearly 5 years.