Tracing an Image Plan
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Hi
I'm having difficulty with a model I'm working on. I'm tracing an image of a residential site plan as described in 'How a Pro Builds a House in Sketchup' by Krisidious. I created a planar surface then applied the image as a texture to trace over. The problem is only some of the lines I draw seem to close into sepereate areas. Im sure Ive sen a similar post to this before but I cant find it now!
Ive tried intersecting all the line in the model and this didnt work. Ive also tried colouring lines by axis but as the model is an irregular houseing estate none of the lines really fall on the green or red axis. I cant work out why all the areas arent seperating. I can only think that the lines arent falling on the same plane but looking at the file the appear to . Has anyone come accross this problem before? Sorry Im sure this would be clearer with the model but I cant really post it as its for a live project. I could try to post part of it if this helps...
Many Thanks
Zootsuit
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Could you post the part of the model your having trouble with? it helps a lot when trying to work out whats going wrong.
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Hi
I have attached a smaple area of the plan. If you click on some areas e.g the garden areas behind the houses, some are closed areas, but some aren't.
thanks
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Hi Zootsuit,
You must have attached it wrong for there's no attachment...
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Sorry i cant get the flie size under 4mb. The strange thing is I moved it all on to one layer and cropped it down to a small portion of the plan. But when i try to move the remaining portion to the the axis origin the plan image underneath changes, as though the entire plan image is still there but hidden , and as i move the model it scrolls across the hidden image. Hope that makes sense, maybe this is part of the problem?
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Is it still an image entity or you have exploded it and applied on a surface as a texture?
If so, right click on the face, go down to the texture menu item and choose "position". Don't position anything just hit Enter. Now it will stick to the face and you can move it around.
If the file size is too big (and you don't need to care about sharing already) you can also upload it to the WareHouse and paste the link here. The WH allows 10 Mb
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Hi
I have restarted the model with the image as a group so it does not interfere with the drawing. It was all getting a bit messy! Thanks for your help!
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Zsuit, turn on "profile edges" (set to 2). Now you can see which edges are "cutting" the face and which are floating. Erase the floating and try again.
That help?
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Hi Tomsdesk
Ive already remodelled the area but thanks for your suggestion, I'll remember it for next time!
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