Tiny triangle problem when draping e.g roads over a surface
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When draping lines on a surface, e.g. to assign materials (grass, asphalt etc) I tend to get a lot of problems where lines are not draped properly, especially if the terrain is somewhat complex - even if the lines are perfectly connected all the way.
If I remember correctly, this is largely caused by Sketchup being unhappy when triangles or line segments are too small. These tiny segments are not created, and the two surfaces remain connected. (anyone know what the minimum length is before you get problems btw?)
So I was wondering, is there any progress on this issue? Any good plugins or other solutions that can solve this issue?
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The Dave method is your best bet.
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=68150 -
That is very clever! So I turn the surface and drape lines into a component, copy them, scale up e.g. 100X, drape, and the original components will get the cut lines, without having to downscale anything.
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