Creating faces for material fillings in a 2d drawing
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Hi,
I am working on a construction detail and created a 2d drawing from a 3d model by converting it into a dwg which I imported then again into sketch up to make some changes in "2d" which would have been harder to draw in 3d. By doing that all the faces are lost. Now I want to apply some materials to it and some hatches. So I need to fill the 2d drawing with faces again to apply the material. There are a lot of curves, not only rectangular geometry. Maybe it is an odd question but how do I create faces from here? Also in layout it is very difficult to apply textures to not-rectangular geometry.
Thank you!!!
Andrea -
There are a couple of things you can do. One of them that doesn't require any plugins is to draw a large face onto which you'll lay the lines. You can usually use Intersect Faces on the result to divide the large face into sections. There's at least two Make Faces plugins around that could also be used.
As for your comment about LayOut, It isn't really textures you're applying. They are just area fills. You might be better off to apply textures in SketchUp instead.
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Thank you for this super fast answer !!!
I downloaded the plug in findfaces and this worked for most of the faces...not with all but I imagine that there are some problems that some "faces" are not really closed.
The big face behind the 2d lines did not work because the face intersection did not work for some reason.
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You may want to explode the dwg first. Just take the necessary geometry from the import and delete the rest. You may also want to check the scale is 1 to before you get started. I think Dave hit the nail on the head for the rest.
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