Advice please on remodelling a model

Scostumatu

Hi all

I have received a model exported from archicad to sketchup. Its a small project im doing for a friend and although its modelled 'ok' in archicad, there are a lot of intersecting lines (overlapping by a few mm) which drives me mad... so i want to re-do the model from scratch. At the moment all im doing is I grouped the entire original model, locked it and im using the 'isolate model' option and x-ray to overlay the new model on top of the existing. It has been ok so far doing this but its a bit of a pain and confusing at times. Is there any other way anyone can think of to do this?

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks

Dave R

It might be easier if we knew what the model is of. I occasionally have to redo poorly drawn SketchUp models and I just stick the thing in the background where I can reference off it and get busy redrawing the new model in front of it.

Scostumatu

@dave r said:

It might be easier if we knew what the model is of. I occasionally have to redo poorly drawn SketchUp models and I just stick the thing in the background where I can reference off it and get busy redrawing the new model in front of it.

Hi Dave

Thanks for the reply - its of a 2 storey home... its fairly architectural in its style and there are some intricate details with it (nothing organic though)

Thanks

Dave R

It sounds like a lot of work then to fix it up.

Krisidious

If you want to start from scratch, using the section cut feature to get your floor plan will help... ThomThom's cleanup tools will help if you just want to try and fix up the current model.

Scostumatu

thanks heaps for the replies - i feel a little reassured that there was no quick and easy way

why couldnt all these other archi programs be as easy and clean as sketchup

Thanks again

Krisidious

I've noticed too that some other programs seem to have poor tolerances. Even autocad, which I always thought was an infinite tolerance system. But I guess it could also be more of the user than the system.

Scostumatu

@krisidious said:

I've noticed too that some other programs seem to have poor tolerances. Even autocad, which I always thought was an infinite tolerance system. But I guess it could also be more of the user than the system.

yeah fair point - as they say, a good tradesman never blames his tools

pbacot

Working on top of the existing may duplicate some slightly-off geometry. Of course impossible to know until you've tried, but I've found that sometimes with imported 2d CAD. It sometimes is just "off" enough to keep messing you up.