thanks for your reply - in the end I ran stray lines ruby and found 25 fiddly bits

once I had done that it all came together nicely

thanks!

stan

I have an issue with a model I'm doing, when I go to texture areas the texture from underneath shows through partly and messes up the model. From what I can work out the faces are not coplanar for some reason. One part of the face appears to be at -0.00m and the other is at 0.00m. Is that sufficient to cause this or not?

I need to merge / flatten / join these two very very close planes. Its very annoying!

I have attached the file

All suggestions welcome

Kind regards

stan

drymen sketchup 27th jan 3.skp

I am a garden designer primarily working in Sketchup. I want to produce detailed models for presentation, but when I start adding more than a few trees and plants Skecthup gets really sluggish and / or freezes.

I have a 2Hz Intel Macbook with 2Gb of RAM. Is this just too old and slow, or are there tips and tricks anyone can suggest? I do not use high poly trees or shrubs where possible.

Is there also any way of 'roughening the edges' of sketchup to make landscapes look more natural? The standard face and edges I find too crisp and bland. Is this something I need to find in Styles?

Thanks so much,

stan

right gotcha

so in actual fact a PDF would've been better, unless there's some way of using the dwg as an underlay

thanks for the help, much appreciated

stanX

thanks for the swift reply!

ah well yes all those bits have been caused by me attempting to get a simple outline of the buildings, and not managing

the architect wasn't the root cause, however much i would like to pass the buck

but the whole issue for me is not being able to draw surfaces, why would that be? how can an imported dwg not be coplanar, if that is the issue here?

cheers

stanX

I have imported a DWG into sketchup, but it refuses to allow any form of drawing on it.

I have purged and purged again, I have removed all the layers, I have selected all and intersected, I have made faces, and..........nothing (well about 5 surfaces have appeared)

I can't draw on the surface like in a usual model. Rectangles / shapes refuse to appear filled in when drawn.

I want to draw the house and garden but i can't get a surface to push or pull.....help!

Cheers

stanX

skp work 1.skp