Hi everyone and thanks for your suggestions. We eventually found that extending all the lines around the rectangle that we could not delete, until each extended line touched another line, made the rectangle behave "normally" - it was able to be selected and deleted as a single entity. The problem had not arisen because of the rectangle being incomplete, so it was odd, but anyway, there was a solution.
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RE: Problem selecting just some areas of a subdivided plane
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RE: Problem selecting just some areas of a subdivided plane
The Follow Me tool has a whole lot of functions I was looking for and hadn't found yet, thanks
The original problem still puzzles me even though we no longer need to solve it! I find that by drawing diagonals and triangles I can delete some areas of that rectangle, but then the remainder works the same way as the first part. If I select it, I still find that I am also selecting the larger rectangle, if I delete a line bounding it, the hole in the wall heals. Bizarre!
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RE: Problem selecting just some areas of a subdivided plane
I've linked in a screenshot below:
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RE: Problem selecting just some areas of a subdivided plane
Thanks Everyone,
I will read up about the "follow me" tool, which I don't understand as yet. Windows as components seem like a good idea too, and thanks for the other suggestions which I will also read more about until I fully understand them - it is knowing what things are called in a new programme that makes it hard to search for the right information, and you have all given us some new vocabulary.
Screen shot of the problem in close-up is attached. The area I cannot select on its own is a complete rectangle and is on one plane. All lines were drawn watching for the indication that they were true to the correct axes.
OK, not attached yet. I will just whip out and read how to attach stuff as I'm not seeing it!
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Problem selecting just some areas of a subdivided plane
Hi All,
We have just had Sketchup a couple of days, so are still uncertain of many things.
We have made a house with holes through the walls for windows, rectangles around the windows defining the window frames, and now we are trying to give the window frames the look of a routed edge - a concave quarter circle replacing the 90 degree convex edge along each side of the frame front. We are trying to do this by cutting with a cylinder.
What happens is that we are able to delete the cylinder itself afterwards, but we are always left with a planar piece of window frame, on the same plane as the wall, that we cannot get rid of. This piece is now bounded by a rectangle that was once the part of the window frame that was inside the cylinder. If we try to remove it by deleting the edge adjacent to the window, the window closes over, effectively healing the hole in the wall. If we then try to remove the closed area covering the window, we cannot select it without selecting a larger area around it, even though it is bounded by a rectangle!
If, instead or deleting a line, we try to select and delete the entire slim rectangle that was once inside the cylinder, we have the same problem of not being able to select this rectangle without selecting the coplanar area of the wall around it.
However, if we make a simple flat rectangular slab, cut a hole through the middle (so it is like a square doughnut with a square hole) and then draw a line across the hole, we can individually select the two rectangles that appear covering the hole and delete them without any difficulty. This would seem to be the same situation, in many ways. It just doesn't work when we are doing this intersect and delete thing with a cylinder.
Any help greatly appreciated, as the perfectionist in the family is going quietly around the bend!
Mary.