Geometry Cut away Prematurely on Zooming in
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See attached.
I'm not really a newbie (and should know better) but I think this is the best place for this question / problem.
On zooming in, su geometry is cut away in the view, even though I'm still quite a long way from it.
I've never come across this before.
It's making life really awkward as I can't zoom in to detail the model.
Any help much appreciated.
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This happens when you have a model that has very large extents. Large site etc...
Notice the attached pics. The only way I know how to fix this is to work on you model in pieces if it needs to be that big. Then bring your separate models/components together in a larger model.
I hope this helps. Somebody here might have a better solution for you however.
This one I drew 2 lines, out a few hundred feet in the green then the red direction.
Close up on a pedestal with the lines.
Without the lines.
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It usually happens when you switch between perspective and orthogonal views, Its called the clipping plain.
It you zoom extents, that the magnifing glass with the 4 arrows pointing outward, it will fix it for you (until next time).
Its been a long standing annoyance in SU but I've seen it in 3D studio too.
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Eric / Paul,
I can't believe somebody saw this post and answered so quickly !!!
Thank you both very much.
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I've also found like you Eric, that it appears to be the large physical size of the model
(in geographic area terms not file size) that seems to be having an effect on the clipping plain.I'd also started cutting pieces of the model away into new files and working on seperate smaller chunks as a workaround.
I just didn't know if I'd done something incorrect in the model or hit some setting by mistake (hence my post).
(Hopefully this will be addressed in future versions ???)
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Thanks to you both once again for your assistance.Regards
Howard Leslie -
Glad to be of service.
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the way I fix this is I switch off Perspective View... this will make things out of skew while you work at small space, but it make it where you can zoom in all the way to nooks and crannies. then switch back to Perspective... you'll notice when you switch it on and off your distance from the object will change...
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Well to the wonderfully horrible clipping issue.
Complaints about it are all over the "dead" forums.
I do a lot of work with 100's of acres sites and large satellite groundplanes. Clipping is the bane of my existence.
Often time, I have to have two models, one with everything and one that just has the part of the site I am currently working on because clipping is so bad. Lots of component reloads to get the big model updated.
I know that other large site softwares display no clipping (Vue, for one) and I have never heard one reason for why Sketchup does clip. I would not hold your breath for this issue to be fixed and figuring out good work arounds is your best (only) bet.
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