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    • jo-keJ Offline
      jo-ke
      last edited by

      OK here is my rug-problem! It's a different situation but the same problem:

      I am drawing the designs of my rugs with photoshop or coreldraw. If the design is a bitmap I can trace it with coreldraw and I can save it as a dwg file. unfortunately the vectors are not filled when I import it to SU so I can't use the pushpull function

      coreldraw:
      trace001.jpg

      SU after import
      trace002.jpg

      real rug

      http://www.doerr-lu.de/nmweb//_actions/nmweb_action_getfile.php?field_fileid=537


      trace.skp

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      • jo-keJ Offline
        jo-ke
        last edited by

        I used the same method with the floorplan

        vectorising in corel X3. it was a quite good result, the tracing function in corel is very good. no postprocess, export as dwg, import in SU and no filled fields...


        grundriss-cdr-trace001.jpg


        grundriss-cdr-trace002.jpg


        grundriss-trace.skp

        http://www.zz7.de

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        • charly2008C Offline
          charly2008
          last edited by

          Hi jo-ke,

          there are many stray lines (plugin) . they have to be corrected manually.

          Charly


          trace.skp


          Stray Lines.jpg

          He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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          • jo-keJ Offline
            jo-ke
            last edited by

            wow charly, this looks better. how did you fill the fileds?

            http://www.zz7.de

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            • charly2008C Offline
              charly2008
              last edited by

              it is the same in this drawing stray lines and open contours.


              Stray Lines.jpg

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              • charly2008C Offline
                charly2008
                last edited by

                With the plugin "make faces 1.4"

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  @charly2008 said:

                  I removed all the stray lines but you can see some of the contour lines are not closed. This finding is hard work.

                  And surely that isn't usable as a working model, is it? There isn't a single straight line there...

                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                  List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                  • charly2008C Offline
                    charly2008
                    last edited by

                    I removed all the stray lines but you can see some of the contour lines are not closed. This finding is hard work. Oh I remembered there is a trouble shooting style.


                    Stray Lines.jpg


                    Trouble shooting.jpg

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                    • jo-keJ Offline
                      jo-ke
                      last edited by

                      I can't find the make faces plugin...

                      at the moment I'm trying the plan tools http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=30512&start=0&hilit=make+faces

                      http://www.zz7.de

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                      • charly2008C Offline
                        charly2008
                        last edited by

                        Hi Thomas,

                        [/quote]
                        And surely that isn't usable as a working model, is it? There isn't a single straight line there...[/quote]

                        that seems to be the Problem!

                        Charly

                        He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                        • charly2008C Offline
                          charly2008
                          last edited by

                          Jo-ke,

                          if it is not in your Tools menu, have a look here:

                          Link Preview Image
                          Smustard(TM) - the Companion to Sketchup(TM) - Plugins and Scripts

                          List of Smustard plugins and ruby scripts for Sketchup

                          favicon

                          (www.smustard.com)

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                          • jo-keJ Offline
                            jo-ke
                            last edited by

                            @charly2008 said:

                            Jo-ke,

                            if it is not in your Tools menu, have a look here:

                            Link Preview Image
                            Smustard(TM) - the Companion to Sketchup(TM) - Plugins and Scripts

                            List of Smustard plugins and ruby scripts for Sketchup

                            favicon

                            (www.smustard.com)

                            Ah thank you. now of course I've found it.

                            http://www.zz7.de

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                            • charly2008C Offline
                              charly2008
                              last edited by

                              Thomas,

                              I have found now a plan with a resolution of 3335 x 4151 pixels. The result is good. But what I still do not understand is that double lines are generated.

                              CharlyUntitled1.jpg


                              Sketchup1.jpg


                              Loft.skp


                              Untitled2.jpg


                              Untitled3.jpg

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                              • thomthomT Offline
                                thomthom
                                last edited by

                                Ah, it create a line for each side of the black pixels... is there a setting for that in the app you use?

                                Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                                List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                                • charly2008C Offline
                                  charly2008
                                  last edited by

                                  Thomas,

                                  In Inkscape I did it. The error was to use the edge detection. You have to use Brightness cutoff. Well, at least most of the lines are individual lines. Please have a look into the attached file.

                                  Charly


                                  Untitled1.jpg


                                  Untitled2.jpg


                                  Loft.skp

                                  He who makes no mistakes, makes nothing

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                                  • jo-keJ Offline
                                    jo-ke
                                    last edited by

                                    The result is perfect!

                                    I've quickly used "make faces" 😉 and pushpull and the result looks like that:

                                    (of course many lines (doors, fonts,...) need to be corrected but that is easy with that result.)


                                    trace-Loft-1.jpg

                                    http://www.zz7.de

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