| Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | Jonathan Green | 5/30/12 11:43 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | George Knowles | 5/30/12 2:22 PM | Hi Jonathan, Apparently your goal is to display no edges in the model. Is that correct? From what I am able to gather working with the model, you have attempted to Hide all edges as you’re modeling. Nonetheless, when viewed in Wireframe mode many e |
| Re: Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | Jonathan Green | 5/30/12 3:39 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | catamountain | 5/30/12 9:58 PM | Add a space between the inner framing members and the outer, slat-siding texture skin so the edges don't show through. From a distance, whatever space there is right now becomes less and less significant the further away you pull back so it looks li |
| Re: Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | Jonathan Green | 5/31/12 5:06 AM | Thanks for all the info catamountain, As I mentioned to George, the model does need tidying. There are many areas that will need improving, since the original model was intended for inclusion on the Google Earth 3D layer. The reason why a PNG was use |
| Re: Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | George Knowles | 5/31/12 8:48 AM | Hi Jonathan, > ... I need to have all edges hidden at the end. The only thorough and efficient way to accomplish that is to unhide everything with the aforementioned plugin and then create a Style to render the model with Edges off. The existing m |
| Re: Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | Jonathan Green | 5/31/12 3:21 PM | Thanks again George, I've still got a lot to learn to get the best out of Sketchup; I've been using Microstation and AutoCAD for 20 years, but there have been numerous new concepts and techniques to learn. I will try what you've suggested and update |
| Re: Lost smooth and softened edges when copying components | George Knowles | 5/31/12 6:51 PM | You’re not alone Jonathan. SketchUp’s simplicity has been known to baffle those with experience in more cumbersome applications. This brief exchange between Sacarch and Gully still makes me grin. I operate within the AutoCAD world... -SU help Forum |