Closing planes
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I need help on closing planes on the model attached. I've used every ruby trick you can think of. Can some one help me debbug this model to get the planes to close. Its not showing any stray lines which makes it even more difficult to find errors.
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Just had a very quick play with it, and it seems the lines that arent intersecting are all slightly above the ground plane. Have you tried the flatten ruby? (i think it exists, although i dont use it myself, so i could be wrong.) if not you can do it manually by just grabbing the lines and moving them down.
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Thinks Remus. I was looking for a logical explanation. I did use the flatten script, however. How did you identify the lines as being elevated? They all look like they have the same elevation. Problem unresolved
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Upon further investigation it seems that some of the pieces that are still showing profile lines are actually groups that are copies of the geometry below. If you select everything and explode it that should get rid of most of it. The rest will stay there untill you close the linework in to a face.
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I have exploded everything. I have intersect with model, eliminated stray lines, intersect overlapping lines. What else can I do?
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That's what I was afraid of, a lot of trial n error. Thanks though! I will try and duplicate what you have done. This has always been a challenge for me, trying to clean up imported acad dwgs. I hope su will improve in this area to eliminate the trial n error.
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Lapx
More luck than judgement. Hope attached helps
I deleted any problem faces and deleted and redrew some lines (indicated red)and some others that I deleted to stitch/break the main area into two which created new faces. If I just drew over the top with original faces there was no change.(I welded some but don't know if this had a effect) and hey-presto.
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Ditto to that. I have been through the same problem several times (and haven't found any good solutions either). I just finished a site plan where I went through the process in CAD of making everything a closed polyline (all the buildings, sidewalks, roads, grass, etc. each had their individual closed p-lines) w/ all lines on the same plane in hopes that this would solve my problem once I got to SU to no avail.
I'm not really frustrated when I find little gaps that I missed, it's when I keep subdividing where the faces should be into smaller and smaller triangles until it's all filled and then delete all the lines I just made and I'm fine. I still don't know why it works, or rather why SU didn't just recognize it as a face to start w/.
It seems like there should be some sort of tolerance adjustment that you should be able to control or something. Hopefully SU 7 can do something about this.
-Brodie
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I wonder how many other people have this problem. Some guy's seem to be luckier than others;)
But this is very frustrating and I consider my self an expert in sketchup. Please save us SU 7.
Sketchup doesn't play by it's own rules in this regard.
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