Other than these and many other issues, the program is great and I love it. Why you cannot control tolerances, or dimensioning (like autoCAD) is strange, why you cannot draw a sphere directly is frustrating, why you can draw any shape relative to a line that is not in the x,y,z plane is frustrating, and why they have not adjusted the program to work on hi res screens is stupid, and it often will not heal holes by overdrawing edges. It often reverses face on it’s own, fails to intersect geometry when directed. The problems are not all mine - sketchup is not flawless. Thanks TIG, your comments are very helpful - others comments (“you should never ignore such problems and make a clean and solid model”) are not - as if my intention was to make an dirty model! Also, there are time i can “ignore” such problems because I am not building the space shuttle and shapways prints the model just fine. Save those for fixing the few issues you can’t fathom, after you have manually done all you can - the potential solutions increase exponentially as you add more errors… However, no algorithms can beat your eyes and brains in fixing your own solids - it’s easy to make a form that is un-fixable using a plugin…
My own SolidSolver also tries to fix issues - including self-intersecting volumes and the common issues like holes and internal faces… His Solid-Inspector2 attempts to fix them.
Using X-ray mode and temporary section cuts will assist in seeing what needs doing. To fix the various issues which lead to non-Solid reports you need to Edit the container, explode any nested entities, and delete the unwanted internal faces, or flaps also heal holes by overdrawing edges to complete the faces etc. Now if you leave the Edit mode and Entity Info still says it’s still a ‘Solid’ then it really is ! But if it no longer reports that then parts of the geometry have now intersected and make things like partition-faces which preclude solidity. Then they’ll intersect the remaining volumes, making it non-solid again.Īlso you have modeled it at a small size - SketchUp cannot cope with creating edges Intersect > with Context… The front view looked fairly straightforward to fix…īUT the back has several nested groups etc, making it non-solid.