Fold objects together or snap faces?
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Hi Rich,
Any chance you could use that snap for the other 4 points like this:
No insult intended.
I'm trying to see how off the finished star is.
You can see that last snap (Labeled Right) is off.
Lets say my 2mm if perfectly joined with the other 4 points.
But I can't get the points left and right in Sketchup.
So if they are already off on the first snap then multiplied by 10 to get the total discrepency. -
No insult taken. I can understand the frustration. The smallest error in modelling will compound over time as you array objects.
It might be better to adjust the modelling approach if you are struggling to align objects.
I did use Snaps and I get a misalignment at the end too.
So it would seem there is a small flaw in the modelling.
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I now have access to 2025.
Where I have the Snap tool available to me.
I'm not smart enough to work it out.
Could you please tell me how you did it starting from the Star Point.skp from my original post? -
Edit the group and right click and choose Make Snaps
Here's a SKP file with Snaps at each corner.
To fully understand you would need to review the help docs I linked to earlier.
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@Rich-O-Brien
Thanks again rich.
Those docs are out of date for 2025.
Having a look now at your example.
After click on the point where I want the snap.
It shifts to something similar to Axis tool.
Then it shifts to something similar to the protractor tool. -
Yeah, so the CTRL key toggle from place to edit to erase. The behaviour itself is a little flaky because you need to move mouse off of a Snap to get the toggle to work.
It won't toggle for me if I hover a Snap and hit CTRL
But the basics is to place your Snap, orientate it appropiately and then place a Snap on the other object orientated in the same manner.
That way when you use the Move tool to grab the objects Snap it will snap to the other object's Snap orientation.
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The initial Snap placement requires a double left click. So make sure your Snap is perpendicular to the face then double click to place it.
If you single click you then get it placed but it expects you to then orientate it. That can cause you to get disturbed by SketchUp's inferencing engine.
It's a little tricky to get the workflow but with practice it becomes relatively easy.
Personally, I'd tackle this Star Shape differently. Especially if you have exact dimensions. But everyone does things differently.
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Wow! Above and beyond Rich.
Many thanks.Yes, I started with the full star like you show.
I had to break it down where my woodworking could make the components. 5 left and 5 right.
With compounding errors. where a .1 to .2 deviation in 10 joins ends up with a 1mm to 2mm gap.
Somewhere along the way I've done that.
I might mention that even now I can zoom down to a matching corner and see a misalignment gap. When measured I get -0.0~. Then SU crashes. I'm deducing I've zoomed in to far.
Even then, that variation will translate into physical woodworking fabrication to say 5mm gap.
Which is a lot of work to find a gap that size. -
Holy moly crack a doly!
That's incredibly infuriating!Got it.
The Snap disc was matching the planes but as soon as I moved the disk it would disorientate.It needs the shift key to maintain its orientation.
There is no shift key in the doco.
I just clicked the first time to set the spot.
Then click twice more to set whatever it was asking for.Then it would let me move the snap over to the other and orient correctly.
I'm sure it was just lucky. -
Thanks for all the help.
I've got snaps on these two star points.
But can't get them to snap together.
Download star-point[rich].skp
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