Fredo6 Toposhaper Error

Chip_Cookie

@Rich-O-Brien said in Fredo6 Toposhaper Error:

If you want to share a file you could try a cloud hosting

Maybe this works:

149 Big Hill from DWG Contours Scaled.skp

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Dave R

@Chip_Cookie I ran TopoShaper on your contours and got this.
Screenshot - 7_4_2024 , 1_14_48 PM.png

It's in SU2024. What steps did you take when you ran it?

149 Big Hill from DWG Contours Scaled topo.skp

Chip_Cookie

One more thing, the native Sandbox tool 'from contours' works fine.

fredo6

@Chip_Cookie
Use Toposhaper from outside the group not inside.

Chip_Cookie

@fredo6 @Dave-R ,

My mistake was not having the contour group as the outermost container. I had two groups, Contours group and Plat group, inside another group I called Survey. If I select (but don't enter) the Contour group within Survey and try to apply TopoShaper it fails. If I explode Survey, then select Contour, it works great.

Thank you both for your help.

frankpondesign

Dear Fredo, I have been trying for 2 days now to get Toposhaper to work in Sketchup and keep getting the the same error messsage "cannot hide layer that is a part of the active path". You have said a few times in various forums that you have to use Toposhaper from outside the group not inside, but I do not understand what you exactly mean with this.

I import contour lines from autocad cilvil 3d to sketchup as a dwg file. (these contour work fine in Sandbox). I then put the contours in a seperate group. Then I select the contours in that group and start Toposhaper, it then works for a while and then I get the mentioned error message.

Toposhaper has worked on 2-3 occissions, but it never was clear to me why it worked in tose cases. I could never replicate it afterwards.