QUICKLY FLATTEN OBJECTS and Make Edges CoPlanar with FredoScale for SketchUp

Learn to use the extension FredoScale to flatten objects in SketchUp. This is especially useful for making edges coplanar so you can quickly create faces. It can also be useful when cleaning up drawings that just won't heal faces into your SketchUp models.

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[ahmedalnuaimi]

Thank you fort this video, it saved a lot of effort for me.

[qendrimgjata]

ah man, i never usually comment but honestly i had to for this. thank you! this is the biggest life saver, i had a collegue make me massive site model and hes fucked it up so much, but this has saved me. thank you!

[goffyfoot]

Making your line run diagonally represents it as a tri making it easier for S-Up. Compared to horizontialy it comes off as a quad, if you ever had to do "stiching" in a model. It is something old school users remember and is a real butt pain. To build a mesh in a non-coplainer area

[johneggers]

FredoScale may have become Fredo6? I wonder if there isn't a native toolset within Skp that also handles this important function.

[STEVEJOY]

So useful for getting 3D printer prints flat for print bed. Thanks been looking for something like this for a long time.

[-pedrojimenez]

Hello, do you know any plugin that allows you to flatten topographies without losing their original shape?

[mipe]

I've just discovered it recently and it's very creative use of this plugin! However, you gotta be careful - in the video you scale in Z axis some geometry that contains VERTICAL edges and they don't disappear, even if you scale them to 0! You finish with some edges with 0 length but they're still there and spoil your geometry. That's why you're getting "errors" when trying to fill the outline. It's not actually a propoer outline yet. Maybe CleanUp could do some claenup here ;)

[annashaw]

Hi, your link to download FredoScale just brings me to a blank page. Is there another free link?

[blairpettigrew]

Yes. I think this tip will be very helpful.

[urbanwoodworking]

Thanks for sharing. It should work for cutting out 2D shapes from an image. So often when creating face-me 2D shapes, inferencing will throw off a point from the coplanar and bisection is the current method of finding the problem. Perhaps flattening will work a little quicker. Of course, the perfect solution is to "turn off" inferencing and "turn on" drawing on a single

[diegofranco]

Thanks a lot... its a nightmare to do this on autocad

[grigorescustelian]

It's just me, or the Sketchup club is dying out? I mean it looks like nobody makes cool extensions anymore or they fade out.