Flatten surface / vertices to selected face

ptasznick

Dear all,

I would like to see a handy but missing tool that can flatten a surface (or just move every vertex of that surface to specified face / intersection with that face.

There are plugins to flatten to Z=0 and plugins that estimate mean normal / average surface, but there seems to be no plugin in which user specifies / clicks a single face (triangle) and flattened surface conforms to that plane.

That would be super usefull i.e. with rectifying models that are draped on surface (i.e. alleyways/roads) that you know that should be flat, bu they should have specified slope, in opposition to just Z=0 or any average of that surface.

It also seams pretty easy to develop, as plugin would simply move each surface vertex to Z bv such value to intersect with that plane based on Sketchup inferencing engine (I assume).

Glenn at home

You can always go to a top view, with camera in parallel view (flat) and then export to a 2D dwg and then import that dwg back into SU. Not perfect but it can work at times.

Didier Bur

@ptasznick

Hi,
Maybe one of my projection tools will do what you are asking for:

[https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/8f66e284-c0e3-45a9-be6e-e86911a3cf5e/projections-tools](link url)
(an old version is on the plugin store but the latest in on the extensions warehouse)

Click on the second icon (starting from left) to project a face perpendicularly on another face plane.
Hope this helps,

TIG

My old script https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=dropverts ?