Sketchup number of segments too large for given angle and radius

Provided you are aware of this, its usually not a problem either.ДЇor example, circles in SU - the corners of these many sided polygons (~circles) will be coincident with a true circle eg as if you'd just drawn it in Autocad etc, but the lines between the corners are not accurate. I consider this a limitation of SU and not an inaccuracy. Typically this will be limited by any source informatiom (site measurements, original drawings you may be working from, your original design etc) and the modeller's skill with SU (eg care with the snaps / inferencing)Д¬ircles, Curves, Arcs and any Geometry or Volumes derived from them - strictly speaking NO. SU will be as accurate as the user wants to model / level of detail required. Straight lines / Orthogonal Shapes / and any Geometry, Volumes etc created from them, no problem. Mostly YES, but sometimes NO (strictly speaking).

If I may rephrase the question to: is SU accurate ?

If you are drawing a survey, SU won't give you the precision expected in a computer file, but I guess it can be said, within its own range of precision, it seems to be accurate. SU has 3 decimal places for degrees and my CAD has 5. You could say it's a matter of precision, not accuracy, that SU has 6 decimal places for inches, and my CAD can go up to 12. On the other hand AutoCAD will let you draw whatever and you might not pick up your tiny mistakes. One thing about SU-if you are drawing buildings (for which it was designed) it gives you cues that your line work is lined up and connected, in fact you can't really model well if it isn't. They didn't draw to be accurate to the computer. Some people probably feel if it represents the object in print, that's enough. It seems to me that autocad makes you sloppy ? I've never used max personally but i've seen people dragging geometry randomly about, and of course i've received some really horrific auto cad files. I calmly explain to them that if they have a licensed subscription version of max that a sketch up importer is available and works fine. These are usually from the 3d snobs using pirated software. Chedda wrote:I've seen complaints about models distorted and skewed when imported to Max.

Sketchup number of segments too large for given angle and radius