Too many Lines
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I spend at least 3 times the time I model finding and removing stray lines. I often find three lines within a sixteenth of an inch keeping me from connecting a contiguous face, this requires zooming in, X-Ray and orbiting in all directions to enable me to find them. I have used colored lines, tape lines to no avail.
Could someone please enlighten me. Is there a setting, or plugin to help me with this Problem??
Glen
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Snaps and inference should help you draw the line to make faces. I use ThomThom's Cleanup 3 to remove extra edges while drawing. you can select part of your model and run cleanup and it can (depending on settings you make) remove all lines that are not forming a face. Obviously there are situations when you don't want that, e.g. where you want to keep a coplanar edge, but it's one way to draw.
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@glenzahorka said:
I often find three lines within a sixteenth of an inch keeping me from connecting a contiguous face...
What are you drawing and how are you drawing it to get that?
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Dave,
I am drawing homes. For instance I will have a vertical face, and when trying to connect a horizontal face to one of the vertical face edges I cannot make the horizontal face...I then draw over the existing rectangle to try to make the face. When drawing over I inevitably cannot draw perfectly over the same line that makes up the vertical face without zooming in. When I do zoom in it is extremely difficult to determine if there is more than one line. I use both a macbook pro and an iMac. I check that the camera is set at 35 and that does not help. perhaps I should use a different setting?
Thanks!!
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pbacot,
Inferences are the dotted lines that appear when drawing a parallel line and you have reached the same height. snaps are when, say you hit the 90 degree mark and your line clicks to a stop. Is this correct??
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@glenzahorka said:
Dave,
I am drawing homes. For instance I will have a vertical face, and when trying to connect a horizontal face to one of the vertical face edges I cannot make the horizontal face...I then draw over the existing rectangle to try to make the face. When drawing over I inevitably cannot draw perfectly over the same line that makes up the vertical face without zooming in. When I do zoom in it is extremely difficult to determine if there is more than one line. I use both a macbook pro and an iMac. I check that the camera is set at 35 and that does not help. perhaps I should use a different setting?
Thanks!!
This sounds like a very difficult workflow but maybe it's the description. I'd be interested to see one of your models right after you've drawn over a line.
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By snap I mean the cursor and input point are drawn to significant points on an object, like the endpoint or midpoint, you see a colored point light up. Actually the cursor snap and indicator happens when you touch an edge anywhere, so you know you are drawing from that edge when you click down. When you draw a line out and get the colored indication of direction... I'd call that a constraint because it is showing how you can constrain the operation to a direction or another edge or face (but I think the tutorials also consider this an inference). Inference is an alignment indicated with other objects' points or direction.
Are you speaking about drawing an edge along an edge which is in a group? Otherwise, you don't have to draw another line there, that edge will participate in your new face when you add the remaining edges.
It is difficult to see SketchUp edges on a Retina screen. I think this has been improved in 2017 version. Try other screen resolutions. I use a MBP but I don't often use the laptop screen itself for SketchUp. More difficult to see snap indicators too. Zooming may not help.
It shouldn't be hard to work off an existing edge. Are you working with a lot of edges off-axis? Sometimes SU forces the axis alignment if it is close to what you are drawing. Are you drawing from or using imported edges, as from AutoCAD? This sometimes introduces edges that are not quite right though they appear to be aligned.
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