Zoom and Model Display cut off issues
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Hello,
We have a model which when viewed even from a camera position ten feet from the tent, gets cut off. This behavior seems to be related to the camera position and the field of view, but I cannot get the model to appear even from far away without information getting lost as the camera 'lens' seems to slice the model.
I have seen a few posts about fields of view and zoom issues, but none address this fairly simple issue alone, and seem more complex than my problem.
Thanks,
Dave -
If you type in the search query "clipping" you will get lots of threads on this topic.
Here is a link to Googles answer to it. http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=36261
When it has happened to me it usually has to do with the physical size of the model in relation to the origin, or that the model itself is placed a great deal from the origin.
It is solvable though.
Cheers -
Hi folks.
Another possibility is that, even if the model is of reasonable size and relatively close to the axes origin, there migth be a very small and thus difficult to spot stray geometry that is far away from the model and in the line of sight of the camera.
This can cause bad clipping problem.
If you can spot this stray geometry, delete it and see if the problem goes away.
If you cannot see it, use this procedure to get rid of it:
1 - Orbit, pan and zoom in order to have a nice clean view of your model, wothout any clipping. This will insure that the stray geometry will not be in sight of the camera.
2 - Select all. This will select all of your model, including the stray geometry.
3 - Press and hold the SHIFT key to Add/Subtract from the selection.
4 - While still pressing the SHIFT key, select all of your model with a window select. This will deselect the model. The stray geometry should not be deselected, if you deselected only the model.
5 - Press the DELETE key.
In the above procedure, if you want to be certain of deselecting only the model and want to avoid deselecting the stray geometry, you can group the model. If the group boundaries look normal, not super large, you can then deselect the group by simply cliking on it while pressing the SHIFT key. By the way, after selecting all, if you make a temporary group and observe that the group bounding box extends way beyong the model size, it is a sure way of telling that therer is, indeed, a stray geometry. Explode that temporary group before continuing with the procedure.
Just ideas.
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