sketchup number of segments too large for given angle and radius

You just know that somebody would set the threshold to 0.000001', try to model a city, and then complain about resulting modeling issues - it’s just the mirror of what we get now with small models (hmm…workaround: model very small and scale up when finished )… If it was changed, there would be a new tradeoff that could cause a whole new raft of user complaints about broken models.

The existing threshold was chosen as a tradeoff between the smallest details and the largest models SketchUp can handle.

That is, where have developers implicitly done things that could break if the threshold was changed? What might modelers do that would provoke new problems? The regression testing to identify and fix problems could be enormous (even if it turns out nothing broke).

Nobody has tested what other operations are sensitive to the cleanup threshold.

I suspect that reluctance to change it derives from two sources: It seems like the threshold should just be a constant that is used by the cleanup code, as opposed to something fundamental about how Sketchup works. Nobody but the developers at Trimble knows for sure. I guess that to make SketchUp scale-independent would require quite big changes to its fundamentals.

Sketchup number of segments too large for given angle and radius