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    • Mike AmosM Offline
      Mike Amos
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      There are swings and roundabouts between TIG's extrusion tools and curviloft. They are both about even and where one might not play with a particular component/group the other will, usually, with a bit of fiddling. The usual problems are caused by sketchup terminating a line or arec at a place other than the one I choose, even when it appears to play ball. Sometimes stray hidden lins are the problem which itself goes back to the love sketchup has for adding lines or faces no one wants. String, long, how..........


      Bonnet outlet and rad fans.

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      • tademaT Offline
        tadema
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        Hello Mike, you sound as if SU's frustrating you! if so it shouldn't be that way.
        I roughly modeled a hawker Hurricane this morning using only the Weld plugin and TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails, none of the above problems your having. Have you tried the Bezier Plugins as they may help.

        If you could explain your workflow it maybe something simple to solve.
        John


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        • Mike AmosM Offline
          Mike Amos
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          SU frustrates me a fair bit but essentially it is a few elements that are consistently up my nose. Moving points of origin/insertion, where no matter how accurate you are, the start or end point move. Stuff seems to change size from one opening of a model to another, drives me proper crackers. I will put up a few examples tuesday or wednesday, a bit late now mate.

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          • Mike AmosM Offline
            Mike Amos
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            The latest problem turns out to be ghost related. Not sure why but copies of a component were in the same location and making it impossible to correct errors. Bleeping spooks.


            Minus the ghosts.

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            • Mike AmosM Offline
              Mike Amos
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              A demo of a ghost. The right hand side of this 2d export shows some roof and glazed panels. None of which were created by me. No idea why they turn up but does anybody?

              Just one of the spanners thrown into the works.


              Bleep bleep ghosts.

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              • Mike AmosM Offline
                Mike Amos
                last edited by

                Appears to happen when items are grouped.

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                • BoxB Offline
                  Box
                  last edited by

                  These things don't spontaneously appear, you are creating them somehow.
                  It's difficult to say how without watching you work.
                  Do you use paste in place and do it without noticing
                  Do you hit ctrl and move then not move
                  Do you select geometry and make it a component but not replace it
                  Is it loose geometry or a group or a component
                  Is it the stuff left over after you have made a component

                  If this happens to you a lot it could explain your difficulties with accuracy, and my guess is there is something odd that you are doing that is creating.

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                  • Mike AmosM Offline
                    Mike Amos
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                    I create a group, move the group, there is another group where the original was. No other geometry creation, no funny magic stuff and I am not saying this to create a problem for anyone. All I have done is report what is happening. You can choose to believe me or not, up to you.

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                    • BoxB Offline
                      Box
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                      Do you hit ctrl when you move the group because that creates a copy at the original position.

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                      • Mike AmosM Offline
                        Mike Amos
                        last edited by

                        Not touching control or any other button, weird huh? Must have a carzy install? Perhaps another reinstall will help but I doubt it. I will give it a try just in case there is some physical memory tie up with another program.

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                        • olisheaO Offline
                          olishea
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                          I get this from time to time. No idea what causes it, I just restart SU and they disappear.

                          oli

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                          • Bryan KB Offline
                            Bryan K
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                            @olishea said:

                            I get this from time to time. No idea what causes it, I just restart SU and they disappear.

                            I have strange things happen as well. Not very often, but it is annoying when it does happen.

                            I just restart the program as well.

                            See my portfolio at https://delphiscousin.blogspot.com/

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                            • Mike AmosM Offline
                              Mike Amos
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                              Well at least I know I am not going completely mad, I was saving THAT for a rainy day when I really NEED it................

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