lingering sketchup questions

for all you sketchup users...i have two lingering questions...

1. occasionally after working on a model for a long time sketchup will wig out and render the model with a random section cut out. this is particularly annoying when zooming into small areas...sketchup will almost always misrender in this situation. also, once this has happened to my model it will always have the problem; even if i close and reopen of if i save under a different name. is there anyway to avoid this or resolve it????

2. is there a way to import scenes from one model to another?

[kwistenbiebel1]

Re: lingering sketchup questions

I think these kind of questions are better posed on the Sketchucation forum or the official Sketchup group forum.

....To answer your question anyway :
you probably have some object very far away from the subject you are focussing the view on.
To check that do a 'select all' and you will see how far the most distant object is ....delete those objects and the view probably won't be cut...

I experience(d) the same thing when working on a scene of a sailboat on a hugh water plane.
Making the water plane smaller fixes that.

Another thing: check the scale of your model as well as the units you are using.

I hope this helps and motivates you to find solutions for your general SU questions on the specialised forums.


Cheers,
Biebel

[Jorbu]

Re: lingering sketchup questions

1. zooming in sketchup can be a bit tricky sometimes since it's related to the size of the model. for instance, as you probably have experienced, if you have a large model of a building and you zoom into a door know you will experience some cliping in the viewport. I haven't found a fix for that, other than keep making a component of detail objects and saving them out as separate file so I can work on them and then I reload them into my main file. If I'm going to render a detail area in a very large model I tend to delete larger areas of the model that are not in view. It speeds up rendering and fixes the cliping error.

2. look at www.smustard.com and do a search for PageExIm ruby script. I think it does what you're looking for. It only $3.00, not bad.

Hope this helps.

Jorge

[sepo]

Re: lingering sketchup questions

Yes they call it clipping planes. There was a lot of talk about it on the old SU forum.