strange results with cutlist

[LarryS.]

hi all,

using cutlist and its giving me some very strange sizes for pieces of wood (way too big), here's a picture of what i'm drawing, the boxes look strange ? Any ideas ?

 

[oddsocks]

hi all,

using cutlist and its giving me some very strange sizes for pieces of wood (way too big), here's a picture of what i'm drawing, the boxes look strange ? Any ideas ?

Paul, we cannot see the bottom left of the component but whenever that has happened to me there has be a 'rogue' line or similar. Try editing it and use the mouse select tool to see if there is anything

 

[LarryS.]

just tried that but no joy, can't find anything. Think I may be screwing it up in another way (I seem to be finding ingenious methods to make sketchup more complicated :roll: :roll: :roll: )

 

[oddsocks]

what is the blue vertical line to the left of the blue axis? Do you have a guide line selected in the component?

 

[LarryS.]

think thats just the axes, have fixed it now anyway by deleting the component and re-drawing but thanks for looking

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Paul, sorry. I was off tutoring someone else in using SketchUp. Anyway, how did you create the component in the screen grab? The component axes weren't in the right place. I have some guess about why they are where they are in that shot but it probably doesn't matter. SO, if I had seen this before you deleted the component and redrew it, I'd have suggested changing the component's axes.

To do that, select the component so it has the blue bounding box visible. right click and choose Changes axes. Set the location of the origin at a corner of the component and then click to set the red followed by clicking to set the green. The blue takes care of itself.

Oddsocks probably was close on his diagnosis. It's possible there was a drawn line laying on the red axis or perhaps a hidden line (View>Hidden geometry) that was included inside the bounding box.

Even if the comoponent axes aren't on the component, you can tell if there's excess geometry by looking at the size of the blue bounding box.

 

[LarryS.]

nice one dave, just opened the old version and you were right the axis were in the wrong place, now off to grill the help section to see what they can do (as I never even realised a component would have an axis of its own !

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Paul, take a look at this link for some info on the axes.

 

[RobertMP]

I learnt a lot from that article and video

Now I know why the wood textures I apply sometimes run the wrong way and I know how to get the insertion point on a saved component just where I want it

I also didn't realise you could change an angled components axis like that and make the bounding box more sensible and manageable.

thanks

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Robert, you are quite welcome. I'm glad you found it helpful.