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    Fredo6 Toposhaper Error

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    • Rich O BrienR Offline
      Rich O Brien Moderator @Chip_Cookie
      last edited by

      @Chip_Cookie If you @fredo6 he'll see it. If you want to share a file you could try a cloud hosting

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R @Chip_Cookie
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        @Chip_Cookie one thing you could try while waiting for Fredo is to remove the tags from the geometry in the import .dwg. Make sure all of the edges areuntagged.

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          Chip_Cookie @Dave R
          last edited by

          @Dave-R

          Unfortunately, I still get the error:

          TOPOSHAPER error.jpg

          I will do the @tag thing.

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            Chip_Cookie @Rich O Brien
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            @Rich-O-Brien said in Fredo6 Toposhaper Error:

            If you want to share a file you could try a cloud hosting

            Maybe this works:

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            • Dave RD Offline
              Dave R @Chip_Cookie
              last edited by Dave R

              @Chip_Cookie I ran TopoShaper on your contours and got this.
              Screenshot - 7_4_2024 , 1_14_48 PM.png

              It's in SU2024. What steps did you take when you ran it?

              149 Big Hill from DWG Contours Scaled topo.skp

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                Chip_Cookie
                last edited by

                One more thing, the native Sandbox tool 'from contours' works fine.

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                • fredo6F Offline
                  fredo6 @Chip_Cookie
                  last edited by

                  @Chip_Cookie
                  Use Toposhaper from outside the group not inside.

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                    Chip_Cookie @fredo6
                    last edited by Chip_Cookie

                    @fredo6 @Dave-R ,

                    My mistake was not having the contour group as the outermost container. I had two groups, Contours group and Plat group, inside another group I called Survey. If I select (but don't enter) the Contour group within Survey and try to apply TopoShaper it fails. If I explode Survey, then select Contour, it works great.

                    Thank you both for your help.

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                      frankpondesign
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                      Dear Fredo, I have been trying for 2 days now to get Toposhaper to work in Sketchup and keep getting the the same error messsage "cannot hide layer that is a part of the active path". You have said a few times in various forums that you have to use Toposhaper from outside the group not inside, but I do not understand what you exactly mean with this.

                      I import contour lines from autocad cilvil 3d to sketchup as a dwg file. (these contour work fine in Sandbox). I then put the contours in a seperate group. Then I select the contours in that group and start Toposhaper, it then works for a while and then I get the mentioned error message.

                      Toposhaper has worked on 2-3 occissions, but it never was clear to me why it worked in tose cases. I could never replicate it afterwards.

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                      • fredo6F Offline
                        fredo6 @frankpondesign
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                        @frankpondesign

                        You might be inside the group.

                        Go outside, select the group and call TopoShaper. This should work.

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                          frankpondesign
                          last edited by

                          Sorry for being ignorant but I do not understand what you mean by being in the group?

                          I have created a group with only the contour lines in it. How do I selct that group without being in it?

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                            frankpondesign
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                            Dropbox

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                            This is a videao of what I am doing, maybe that helps....

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                            • fredo6F Offline
                              fredo6
                              last edited by

                              Just click on the group. Toposhaper will pick what is inside.

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                                frankpondesign
                                last edited by

                                It does, but then I get the error message, see the video......

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