From the course: SketchUp & Revit Workflow

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts.

Badly prepared SketchUp file

Badly prepared SketchUp file - SketchUp Tutorial

From the course: SketchUp & Revit Workflow

Badly prepared SketchUp file

- [Instructor] We're in chapter 02-05. This one's called, Badly Prepared SketchUp file. And I'm trying to explain what I mean by badly prepared. We've got three cylinders. If I turn on, View and hidden geometry, the other reason for cylinders is that I can show you how Revit deals with the facets. So, if you're not familiar with SketchUp, it doesn't create perfect circles. It facets them and then smooths the edges. So, you get in this case, I've got 36 edges. There's 24. Which is the default value and then this one which is 12. So, even though it looks like a cylinder, let's turn off the hidden geometry again, when you look at it sort of side on, it is in fact faceted, as you can see there. So, this is somewhat of a curse and a blessing, depending on which way you want to use the software. But that's what we've got. So, three cylinders. If I select the component that makes up the three cylinders, you'll notice that inside we've only got a component, the green cylinder and a group…

Contents