Filling faces

[sweetluge]

Could somebody just list the possible reasons why I might not be able to fill a face? I have retraced its outline to ensure closure, but it will not fill. This a recurrent problem that is bugging me.

[Gidon Yuval]

Hi sweetluge,
Make sure the face you are tring to create is on one plane only i.e. totally 2 dimensional.
Could you post the file so we can have a look at it?

[sweetluge]

sure, there are numerous places where I am having this problem. Having not really used sketchup before this model, I am not really acquainted with grouping and I think this is at the root of my problems. As you can see I am having trouble filling the sides of the staircase closest to the (currently) open street facade and the bottom of the 3 angled stairs on the young adults raised runner.Library Site.skp

[angusog]

G"day sweet

i had a look at your model, well just the right hand top stairway, which had an open edge to the stairs, i turned on colour by axis and your model isn't planar, or just plain out of square

so thats why you have these open edges, to get to colour by axis, goto windows/styles/edit and bottom hale has window with choices click on this and chose colour by axis, any black lines in your model are off axis and there are quite a few in your model.

when constructing floors and stairwells i use the rectangle tool and push/pull that way if you start on a planar face you should end up with planar faces, using the line tool is difficult unless you watch the inference colour.

any way hope this helped

ps if you measure the left and right floor on top of the stairs you get 4'8" 1 end and 3' 6" the other.or there abouts ( i closed the model ) and my memory is terible at 5am

Robert

[sweetluge]

I understand that my model is not square, the plank-like floor that the stairs rise from is not a rectangle but an elongated trapezoid. This is intentional. In other words, I had to create the stairs using the line tool because the stairs are not rectangles. Shouldn't I be able to fill faces that don't line up with axes??

[sweetluge]

oh but that color by axis does help. Thank you!
maybe i misinterpreted what you were saying
i think i understand now

[angusog]

G'day Sweet

glad that helped,

sorry about that, as i said at 5am not the sharpest knife in the block

you can use trapezoid shapes , just make sure that your line tool is inferenced in the direction you are taking the line blue = up/down red left/right etc.

colour by axis helps a lot, lots of little tricks like that on the boards.

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