Repair Distorted Faces

Tries to repair faces whose corners are not all in one plane, the brown edges in Analyse. It moves the stray corners onto the face's plane.

Group

Repair

Fixes

Brown: edges of distorted faces

Works on

Your selection, or the whole model if nothing is selected, including groups and components nested inside. In a component, every copy changes.

Version

Full

When to use it

Distorted faces usually come from importing a model from other software, or from some special modelling functions. A group can be solid even with distorted faces, but they can make SketchUp's Solid Tools give wrong results. Use this tool when that happens.

How to use it

1. Save a copy of your model first: this tool moves points, and that can change nearby faces.
2. Run Analyse and look at the Edges of Distorted Faces (brown) counter.
3. Select the parts with brown edges, or nothing for the whole model, and click Repair Distorted Faces.

Before and after

Limitations and intentional geometry

• Moving a corner onto the plane also moves it for the neighbouring faces, so they can change shape a little, or become distorted in turn.
• Curved surfaces made of many small faces are not distorted as long as each small face is flat; only faces that are themselves bent are marked.
• Brown edges don't stop a solid. If you want to leave them, hide them in Analyse Filter.

Check the result

The brown counter shows 0 or is lower. Run Analyse and make sure no new green or yellow edges appeared next to the repaired faces.