Is there an easy way to select outlines?
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I have the following sketchup file. It is a floorplan that I edited in mspaint, and saved it as a jpg file. It only uses 2 colors, black and white. I want to select the walls but the only tool I can find to use is the pencil tool. Is there a way to select all the outside black edges to make the walls for my floor plan? Attached is my file so you can have an idea of what I am talking about.
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Hi Skippy,
There are ways but outside SU. JPG images are raster images (a bunch of pixels piled upon eah other), no matter they are pure B&W or colour while SU works with vectors. There are 3rd party programs however that (try to) create vector based graphics from raster images. Have look at this Google search collection and make a choice.
Note however that almost literally none of them is capable to create a precise enough vector drawing for SU and you will suffer with cleaning up your model more than if you start from scratch. I'd rather build a Gothic cathedral (and probably faster) than start cleaning such a vector scan for SU.
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Skippy, Unfortunately, a jpg is an image, not a vector (entities like lines with info about its size) file. So unless you convert the jpg into a dxf (or something that SU can read) it will not work. Another approach is get a plugin that draws walls, and trace over your file. I don't know if your drawing is full size (full scale), if not your plan will not be accurate. You can search this forum for a wall plugin.
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Hi, I took the .jpg file from your s.kp file. I cleaned it up in photoshop (to remove all .jpg compression artifacts). Then opened it in illustrator and used the automated trace feature. Then simplified the linework automatically in illustrator and exported as a .dwg file. I imported that to SU and ran makefaces on it. So now it is a pretty clean SU drawing. Hope that helps. I can explain that whole process in more detail if needed later, just no time right now. The whole thing took about 5 minutes.
Chris
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