Strange Artifact While Zooming

[Mark Beattie]

Hi, all.

I get this now and again. I'll try and zoom in quite tight on an object and, the closer I get, the more that object disappears. Has anyone experienced this?

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[jenujacob]

The infamous clipping plane issue :

try this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCd89LuRV_g

else , try this : https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=s4u_Clipping_Camera

[juju]

As mentioned above, clipping plane issue, has been an issue with SU ever since I can remember.

I can't vouch for the solution presented above, but have the extension ClippingPlane and it works great. It was the first extension / solution to come to market on this issue. Strangely other solutions followed shortly thereafter, not saying it's copycats but...

There are things you could do to minimise the likelihood of experiencing the clipping plane issue, this has been covered many times before both on the Sketchucation forum as well as on the SketchUp forum, do a search with the term "clipping plane" and you should get a good number of hits to peruse.

[sketch3d.de]

@juju said:

As mentioned above, clipping plane issue, has been an issue with SU ever since I can remember.

more or less all 3D applications are affected by this issue because the algorithm for calculating the 3D view port simply needs a clipping plane to avoid a time-consuming rendering of areas the user (normally) cannot see... the implementation makes the difference.

• SketchUp Help Center: Clipping and missing faces

[Mark Beattie]

Thanks, all. I appreciate the help.

[HornOxx]

@juju said:

...but have the extension ClippingPlane and it works great.
...a really good hint

[kaas]

that clippingplane plugin is a great hint indeed.

The SUteam never implemented the set near & far using ruby as you suggested in this topic or did I miss something in the api docs?
https://github.com/SketchUp/api-issue-tracker/issues/311

[Dave R]

You can access advanced camera settings in SketchUp on the PC and adjust the near and far planes manually. Experiment with those settings. You may be able to reduce clipping but you may also find you create worse problems for yourself.

In the Ruby console type

Sketchup.send_action 10624

And hit Enter

Someone made a little plugin that adds an item in the Camera menu. I disremember who and they didn't put their name on it. Probably TIG is the one to thank.
AdvancedCameraSettings.rb