Line tool won't separate plane
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Hi Folks,
I've been modeling the interior of a retail store. Things were going swimmingly until it came time to texture the floor. I wanted carpet on both sides with a swath of vinyl tile up the middle. After double-clicking the floor group, I used the line tool and the arc tool to lay out the dividing lines on the floor slab, I put down lines all along the inside edge of the exterior walls. I now had three distinct separate areas. I opened the paint bucket, clicked on a gray carpet, then clicked on one of the areas. All three took the texture. So I exploded the group, then triple-clicked and some of the lines weren't highlighted. I shift-clicked those and then made a new group. Still no dice. When I triple-click the group, those same lines I'd already re-highlighted are back to black. So I erased the ofending lines and re-drew them (sorry to go on, but I wanted to try everything before I wrote) and still I can't separately click any of the three areas. Possible clue: when I put the camera in "Top" view, full extent, there is a break in one of the rounded corners. Zoom in and it re-connects. Re-drawing it doesn't fill it in. I orbitted the camera down to floor level and everything is flat and in the same plane. So what the heck is going on? What am I missing?
Tim -
Tim, posting the model - or at least this floor group (if I understand correctly, you grouped it) would be helpful. There are various reasons why edges do not merge so without seeing, it is almost hopeless to help.
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Sorry Gai, I tried 3 times to upload my model for you, but the little blue circle grinds away for 2 or 3 minutes, then the site shuts it down. My email address is
<removed>. Send me an address and I'll send it to you directly.It's still fighting me. As an experiment, I opened a new Project, drew a large rectangle, pulled out some depth, and drew some similar lines on it. The texture went on like a charm. So I made a new project with a rectangle of the store's dimensions, imported a JPEG of the original floor and copied the lines exactly. Then all I had to do was pull it down 6", copy and paste. The program crashed and I lost all the new data.
Yikes!
Tim -
All right, I sent you a dummy email you can respond to.
(And at the same time, removed your email address from your post if you do not mind - it1s not wise to post such personal data publicly)
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