@rich o brien said:

Set the falloff to 0

Thank you!! Ha, I clicked on the Soft Selection several times but didn't think to check and change the radius, silly me. Much appreciated. 👍 👍

Figured it out yesterday. Had the Geoplane in vray on, then turned it off.
I don’t think any question is ever stupid. It happens.

I think that was because my UTC setting somehow brought a very weird effect which was quite dark. I changed it to UTC-7 then it's working ok, still not ideal for the interior yet but a lot better for the exterior.

@dave r said:

Try going to 150% again. Then reboot the computer and open SketchUp. Any better?

Please update your profile. It is obsolete right now.

Thanks Dave, it's resolved now. Updated to 2020, all comes back.
Appreciated.

@box said:

Be sure you aren't mixing up the Icon, I don't remember Zorro having a tool bar, but Artisan does have a sword tool.

Close. Artisan has a knife / dagger / Roman type sword icon, Zorro has a sable type sword icon.

@hornoxx said:

I've already racked my brain over this "what or who the heck is Gizmo"-term.
(Gizmo for me sounds like a character from Sesame Street 😄 😄 )

I now have it straight from the ex wife's mouth, she is native German speaker and works as a translator for various languages, that a Gizmo could be translated as a „Ding“, „Dingens“ or „Dingsbums“. Just to name a few.

Fill the inner islands with faces, select them all and PB will build frames by ONE click. But this magical single click demands some preparation 😄

@dave r said:

I haven't used the extension but there appear to be some instructions here. Have you tried following them? You could also e-mail the author and see if he can give you some idea. Probably need to send the SKP file to him, too.

Thank you Dave. I feel like it’s the axis’ that I didn’t set up correctly, yes I know where to download the plugin only I don’t have a paypal, I’ll work with trial version for now.

This plugin the ‘Lines to Component’ requires a face and line(s), I had the line(s) turned to component when I set a line to be component, just couldn’t get the correct direction - my model component is horizontal, but plugin turned component is vertical... I prob should set the XYZ axis the exact as the sketch up origins.

You shouldnt always depend on a vismat to create materials. Go to Youtube and watch a couple of basic tutorials. An epoxy floor seems to be pretty easy to setup. Look at photos on the web and then understand what parameters will get you that look.

Seems that you need a base diffuse and then maybe just up the reflection on it as epoxy floors are very glossy.

http://www.cgtextures.com might have a good diffuse you can use.

Using layers to hide 'raw' geometry doesn't separate it from the still-visible geometry.
SketchUp is not CAD.
ALL SketchUp geometry should ALWAYS be assigned to Layer0 [which should almost always be the current layer].
Always make 'containers' - groups/component-instances - of your bits of related geometry, and assign layers to those.
Then use those layers to control visibility...

I repeat: layers do not separate geometry, they simply 'hide' it when 'off'.

Sorry I couldn't just give you a key to press to make it all clean. Unfortunately there's no substitute for keeping your model clean as you go. Some people will claim it takes too much time to clean as you go but it's actually less time consuming to model cleanly than it is to repair the model later.

Best wishes.

Thank you, I'm here because of a similar problem. I am glad that this forum is visited by some people who understand something about this issue.
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One reason could be the imported drawing has edges that do not exactly meet or intersect. Also ome CAD drawings are 3d and though it's not clear in a 2d projection some edges don't lie on the same plane exactly. Sometimes minuscule inaccuracies are not detected by SketchUp. They look right in SU but really there is no intersection making a closed shape. SU has some trouble deciding what is coplanar and what is not. For example performing intersect faces on a face will only catch part of all the faces that abutt that face. Nothing's perfect.

The more times you click the green button the smoother the geometry becomes.

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No, what I mean is either you do as rich suggested, which is the proper 3d way, or you do it with a line (axis) and it rotates 180 around that axis.

Thanks again for your answer!It looks so much nicer when all the black lines hidden.
Much appreciated!!