Chapter 14
Ten SketchUp Traps and Their Workarounds
IN THIS CHAPTER
Knowing why faces, colors, and edges aren’t behaving right
Coping with a slow or crashing SketchUp
Viewing your model the way you want
Persuading components to budge
Recovering from Eraser disasters
The bad news is that every new SketchUp user encounters certain problems, usually in the first couple hours of using the software. You can call these problems growing pains. The good news is that, because these problems are common, we can write a chapter that anticipates a lot of the bad stuff you’ll go through. This chapter offers tips that help you make sense of what’s going on so you can get on with your life as quickly as possible.
SketchUp Won’t Create a Face Where You Want It To
You’ve dutifully traced all around where you want SketchUp to create a face, but nothing’s happening. If you follow along in Figure 14-1, which was inspired by a visit to the M.C. Escher museum in Amsterdam, you see the top-left image seems ...
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