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CREATE SOLID IN SKETCHUP PRO
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User Guides, FAQs, Community Support and More…Įverything you ever wanted to know about BoolTools is now available at our first-class Help Desk. To create a 3D model in SketchUp, youre constantly switching among the drawing tools, views, components, and organizational tools.

CREATE SOLID IN SKETCHUP PRO

The Pro Solid Tools has also had some other long-standing limitations that we have improved on with BoolTools. That’s why so many Solid Tools users have adopted the copy and ‘scale-up’ workflow to prevent their Solid Tool operation from failing. Even the Pro Solid Tools struggles with this problem.

Successful boolean operations depend on high-precision 3D intersections, something that the internal SketchUp geometry engine struggles with at times. However, it definitely had some limitations, especially when it came to dealing with smaller complex objects. The original BoolTools plugin was indeed useful and helped fill a necessary need in the SketchUp toolset for many years (especially for Make users). After all, the Pro Solid Tools did not exist yet, and no one even knew that SketchUp was considering creating this long-requested feature. This tool provided an inexpensive way to perform some basic boolean operations and worked with both SketchUp Make (free) or Pro. any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks. To request a volume licensing discount, please contact us.Ībout 20 months before SketchUp Pro 8 released the Solid Tools, (way back in Dec 2008!), the original BoolTools plugin for SketchUp was released. lizardtribe February 25, 2015, 12:36pm 1 Hi, how do i make a object solid as i have had trouble trying to make the object solid ive made a cube and im trying to cut the cube in half but the subtract/trim tool is saying its not a solid object.

CREATE SOLID IN SKETCHUP LICENSE

Purchase a permanent license for BoolTools 2 now for only $29 US.įor volume licensing, simply enter the number of licenses required in the order form.

Results in solid 3D printable objects in almost all cases (if the original objects were also solids).

New Single Object Union tool (click a single group or component to union all nested solids inside of it).

Maintains the Layer and Names of the first object selected.

Does not create new components! The original component is modified as expected.

Designed with 3D Printing in mind to work with small complex objects (no more scaling workarounds!).

Union, Difference, Intersection, Trim, Split.

The more I use BoolTools 2, the more complex my usage becomes.” – Charles T (Design Engineer) Features Include: In my work, I use many small threaded rods and female threaded holes. “BoolTools 2 is an extension I use almost daily. Guaranteed BETTER RESULTS than the SketchUp Solid Tools or it’s FREE! I also reset the camera Field of View from ~11° back to the usual default 35° FOV.Powerful boolean operations for SketchUp Make or Pro. By the way, it wouldn’t hurt to get into the habit of purging unused stuff from your models. With internal faces you have an edge shared by three or more faces. In order for a group or component to be considered solid, every edge must be shared by exactly two faces. The stray lines outside the Solid Group have been erased. Get rid of the internal faces and it should be good. The model has been moved to the Origin and rotated on axes. Have a look at this video to learn more about Groups and Components You need to ‘open’ the Group or Component for editing before you can work with what’s inside the Group. Keeping things separate and organized is what Groups and Components do.

The reason the new lines won’t merge is because the geometry inside the Group is isolated from the rest of the model. Then you can unhide them via a right context click > Unhide or uncheck ‘Hidden’ in Entity Info. Look to the top menus and click … View > Hidden Geometry and you’ll be able to see them.ĭouble click on the Group to enter its editing context and you’ll be able to select the hidden edges. The edges you think are missing are merely hidden. If the group you made is still solid, you should be able to subtract all of them in one operation. You may have to do this multiple times if you have nested groups/components. With the Select tool ( ), select the continuous set of edges that represent the path, also shown in the following figure. Edit that group, select all and explode them. Some lines are missing to close many of the faces so I drew them but now I can’t find the way to merge them to the object so when I try to move it all those lines don’t follow. Select all the objects you want to subtract.