Mac sketch smooth curve how to#

As others have already observed, these aprons are perfect candidates for drawing first one side outline and then push-pulling to thickness.This suggests you need to learn and practice some more on when and why to create groups (or components, which would actually be better in this model since presumably the table will have two pairs of identical aprons in the end). For example, the lower curve on both aprons is duplicated inside and outside the group, which serves no useful purpose. As others have observed, you have some peculiar combinations of grouped and non-grouped geometry on the same part.

Mac sketch smooth curve how to#

If you did use a Bezier tool, you need to read up and practice to understand how to use it correctly, as assuring tangency is one of the features of Bezier curves. I assume that was not intentional? Notice how much nicer the edge between the flat and lower curve look despite the lower curveвЂ™s much smaller number of segments! Try drawing the curves using a tool that understands tangency, such as the two-point arc tool, or the traditional Bezier spline tool extension. The final arc segment meets the flat at an angle of about 23.3 degrees, making it visible even with smoothing.

The upper arc and the flat do not meet at a nice tangent, causing a corner.

Whatever tool you used to draw the upper arc should have similar options.

You can reduce the number of segments used by the Arc tools by typing something like 6s into the VCB while the tool is active. But whatever tool you used to draw the upper curve also used far too many sides. This is particularly troublesome with the flat, since it is actually planar and could be drawn as a single face (if you view hidden geometry, you can erase the interior edges and leave a single face). The upper curve and the flat between the curves have way too many facets (as Gully noted).Use the VCB whenever you need precise placement or lengths in SketchUp, else you will build models with tiny glitches that are hard to see, tedious to fix, and that cause mysterious errors until they are fixed. Then use inference engine snaps to the guidelines while drawing the curves. Try laying out the locations by creating guide lines and/or points and typing values into the VCB to get them exactly where you wanted. The straight part from the leg to the upper curve is close, but not quite 1 11/16'.

The flat and the lower curve are close, but not quite 1/8'. For example, the upper curve is 0.315561' wide, which is just a bit off from 5/16 (=0.3125).

The details of the cutout in your model are drawn at sizes that seem like you attempted to make them nice fractions of an inch and missed by just a little.

Here is a list of issues I see and suggestions on how to address them if you start over: I agree with Gully on this: your model shows enough flaws that you would be well served to start over and do it better. You also need to turn on View->Hidden Geometry if you want to see the cross-wise smoothed edges.

To answer one of your questions, you arenвЂ™t seeing the edge endpoints because you arenвЂ™t using a style that shows them.