Axis keep on moving
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I don't know if this is a bug or just something I do wrong... Probably the latter
I am working on a model which is georeferenced. The buildings themselves, however, all have different orientations.
Whenever I'm working in a group containing one building - with one orientation - I set the blue/green/red axis right. However, every time SketchUp autosaves the document or I save it manually, the axis swap back to their original position (which is approximately North-South, though not entirely correct).Is there any way to block the axis on different orientations in different groups, within one and the same model?
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Are you sure your not just seeing the difference between the component or group axes and the model axes? When you open the group or component for editing, you'll see its axes not the model axes. When you close the group or component you'll go back to see the model axes. Their orientation and the location of the origin can be different. If that is what you are seeing, it is certainly not a bug.
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@dave r said:
When you open the group or component for editing, you'll see its axes not the model axes. When you close the group or component you'll go back to see the model axes.
That's the problem: I want to change the axes of a group, but after every auto save they jump back to the old alignment. Even while I'm drawing, within the group. The group axes - which are indeed different from the models axes - can be modified, but they don't stay that way.
Maybe it's the way I do it? I just open (edit) the group, click on the red-green-blue icon, choose a new origin and choose the direction of the red and green axes.
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Yes. that's the way it works. Why not make a component instead of a group? Then you can right click on the component, choose Change Axes. Locate the origin followed by the red and then the green axis.
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It took a while for me to discover that too !
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It's one of many reasons why I don't use groups at all.
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@dave r said:
Yes. that's the way it works. Why not make a component instead of a group?
Ok, if I had known it was that simple
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You have to learn somewhere. Now you know.
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@fluffy82 said:
......That's the problem: I want to change the axes of a group, but after every auto save they jump back to the old alignment. Even while I'm drawing, within the group. The group axes - which are indeed different from the models axes - can be modified, but they don't stay that way.
Maybe it's the way I do it? I just open (edit) the group, click on the red-green-blue icon, choose a new origin and choose the direction of the red and green axes.
Even with groups I can't see the issue you described. Edited axes within a group (its local axes) do keep their new origin and orientations after saving and reloading. (PC!)
I can't figure out why it doesn't work for you. -
Is it possible that the separate components/groups have been geolocated differently to the overall model?
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@box said:
Is it possible that the separate components/groups have been geolocated differently to the overall model?
No, I don't think so... I started out as usual, importing an aerial photo/terrain via Google Earth, just once...
I do have about 10 different orientations spread over several groups, all between 2° and 47° off from the "main" axes. But that shouldn't be a problem, should it?@wo3dan said:
Even with groups I can't see the issue you described. Edited axes within a group (its local axes) do keep their new origin and orientations after saving and reloading. (PC!)
I can't figure out why it doesn't work for you.I did check one thing: when I save and reload, the axes seem to stay in place (tested it just once). It's after auto saving that they "return" to their original position.
Anyway, as suggested, I'll make components out of them, that might be the simplest solution.
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@fluffy82 said:
....I did check one thing: when I save and reload, the axes seem to stay in place (tested it just once). It's after auto saving that they "return" to their original position.
Anyway, as suggested, I'll make components out of them, that might be the simplest solution.
I can only say: check the latest autosave, made by SketchUp after you made the changes to the axes. They should be with all the changes made to the model. Components wouldn't make any difference at all here.
Also check the autosave time in Window > Preferences General: every ___ minutes. Maybe it's set to a (too) long time between autosaves. -
I know this is now an old thread, but I just wanted to chime in here and say I see the same thing. I hadn't tracked it down to autosaving, but I have several groups for which I have to constantly reset the axes. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes not. It's maddening, I cant see how its not a bug.
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I'm having exactly the same problem. SketchUp 2016 Pro.
I enter a group, change the axis, leave the group, go back in, and it's the previous axes, not the new ones.
Interestingly, when I change the axes inside the group, the group dotted frame does not adjust, which seems to be symptom of the same bug.
I'm thankful for any ideas!
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Changing the axes inside a group is not a permanent setting. If you want the group axes permanently oriented differently than they were when you created the group, Open the group for editing, select the contents and rotate them to orient with the axes. If you orient the geometry to align with the model axes before creating the group, you won't have to edit it later. Or you could make a component instead of a group and either set the axes orientation during creation of the component or change the axes afterward. The component axes get changed without opening the component for editing, though.
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@dave r said:
Changing the axes inside a group is not a permanent setting .......
Changing the axes inside a group by redrawing the axes with the 'Axes' tool will most certainly change the group's axes accordingly and permanently. Or am I missing the point the OP is trying to get accross?
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I experience the same problem. Some times. Normally. Because Sometimes it is NOT a problem. And when I experience the problem, it has nothing to do with autosave. I change the axis within a group, I leave the group and everything looks nice. I go to another group, and imidiately after, the first group has changed its axis.
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Let me ad that right now, drawing a house for a client, I do almost nothing else than changing axis and changing axis. You say that I have to make components instead of groups, but if this is the solution, why have SU made groups in the first place? When groups according to you can not change axis, and therefore are useless? And in some models, I do not experience this problem.
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@malbertsen said:
...... I change the axis within a group, I leave the group and everything looks nice. I go to another group, and imidiately after, the first group has changed its axis.
How did you change the axes inside the group?
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I am confused by this discussion, and @Wo3Dan's last question seems key: how are you changing the group's axes?
If you open the group for edit and then use the right-click "align axes" menu item, that is a temporary action that affects the drawing axes not the group's definition axes or the model's axes. It helps with axis inferences for drawing while you edit the group, but is cancelled as soon as you close the group.
The only way I know for sure will work is to open the group for edit, rotate all of the contents to align with the existing axes (rather than vice versa), close the group, and then rotate the group (without opening it) back to the original orientation.
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