Problems with surfaces after importing from AutoCAD

Gaieus · 8 Mar 2008, 07:09

I don't really understand the problem with the faces that you cannot select individually (more exactly I have never encountered with such a phenomenon). Could you upload a little example piece of your file here?

As for painting faces more than one at a time - yes, exactly what you "wish": select more than one face and you can apply the paint tool on the selection.

todd burch · 8 Mar 2008, 14:35

Can you post the dwg?

uhanam · 8 Mar 2008, 16:25

Here's the file. Try to select the surfaces and you'l see what the problem is.

Untitled.skp

remus · 8 Mar 2008, 16:31

hmmmm, works perfectly for me. It is grouped twice though, did you explode it twice?

todd burch · 8 Mar 2008, 16:31

Works for me. It was a component that I exploded into a group, and that exploded into raw faces and edges. Then, I could select any face. Some faces seemed to be broken, so I did an unhide all, and that put edges where I was expecting them. Then, I bricked up up, a face at a time. Worked perfect.

Todd

Gaieus · 8 Mar 2008, 16:33

Remus - apparently he didn't...

Your model is included into a group then into a component. Since no other groups/components are in it, you can explode (right click > Explode in the context menu) the component then the group itself to be able to work with it.

Grouped geometry cannot be edited from outside of the groups context. You don't need to explode it; by double clicking, you can also edit it but it is useless here.

also, after exploding it, select all geometry (triple click) and reverse the faces (again from the right click menu) because you have all the back faces out.

Gee guys, you are so speedy!

juanjo06 · 8 Mar 2008, 20:12

hi... well, when u import from autocad, the file got into sketchup arrive as a group whole the entity, so u have to explode or doble click to work into the group! and then reverse the face, reversing faces is indispensable to do! to aply materials...

uhanam · 8 Mar 2008, 20:51

The thing is that I did explode it...twice.
It's not that I can´t select the surface. I eventually manage to do it but only after clicking in a expecific point that is a pain to find in some surfaces. I was just hoping that I only had to click anywhere inside the surface to select it.

Gaieus · 8 Mar 2008, 20:54

Well, for me that's the case.

todd burch · 8 Mar 2008, 23:10

Sounds like it might be a graphics card issue. Turn off Hardware Acceleration and see if that helps. (Preferences -> OpenGL)

Todd

uhanam · 9 Mar 2008, 01:20

@unknownuser said:

Sounds like it might be a graphics card issue. Turn off Hardware Acceleration and see if that helps. (Preferences -> OpenGL)

Todd

It works! Thanks
Thanks everybody for the help.

guite · 9 Mar 2008, 17:53

I myself was wondering why I could not select some of the faces (bounded in red in attached image) untill I read Todd's post. I am attaching screen shot comparison for the benefit of others who might encounter similar problem.

Guite

PS: Isn't the image inline option supposed the place the full image, not thumbnail? How does it work?

Gaieus · 10 Mar 2008, 09:26

@unknownuser said:

...Isn't the image inline option supposed the place the full image, not thumbnail? How does it work?[attachment=0:2skd4yye]Scap.jpg[/attachment:2skd4yye]

No, it only lets you place the attachment thumbnail between paragraphs so when you write longer etxts, the attachment can be within the text.

Those who post in a way that the whole image is viewable host it somewhere else and use the [embed] tags to display it here.