I apologize, I didn't mean to hijack - accidentally posted in your thread. I was hoping the moderator could delete this post or start it as a new thread....

Thanks Box, you must be an owl. I awoke to find the printer guy fixed it with a program that "fixes" geometry.

Here you go. https://extensions.sketchup.com/en/content/sketchup-stl

Oh it is scaled up by a factor of 10

Happy to help and I learned a bit too.

You should get great results with Fredo6's Tools on Surface and JointPushPull.

Dave trick works but I also run TT CLEANUP first then both the other solid plugins

WOW, this is really nice.......Thanks for sharing. In a past life, I used to work with some of the large home builders here in the US. I could see a set of these in the sales office for a home builder (one for each model they are offering in the subdivision). Now, think about how it would be to take it to the next level and be able to remove the roof and or the 2md story and show the floor plan.

Jim Here is the link to what you are looking for and the one I have too. Good deal @$163US and very nice. http://www.gearbest.com/3d-printers-3d-printer-kits/pp_343643.html dtr

I drew over some missing faces' edges and they healed up. However, the one on the shallow-dome part cause a double face to form - it was only zillions of an inch apart - but stopping it being a solid. Because the edges were supporting too many faces ! I selected one of those faces and deleted it. Then it reported as a solid. I suspect that there is some incredibly tiny variance in these edges which SketchUp thinks can't support a face - or can - and then adds two faces ! Doh ! These overlaid faces can some times occur - SolidInspector will show them - but can't fix them...

It's fixed! I saved it as an STL file (with the STL extension) and it worked. I guess some file types simply aren't compatible.

Excellent, glad it helped!

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Else you have also Fracture by TIG! But it's not free!

@jql said: That won't have a very firm grip as it will twist upon the joint's axis. You should have at least 2 pins per joint... It also seems very prone to detach from each other. Maybe you now should model from what Mitch gave you. Thanks, I will. I'm also going to use super glue to reinforce it.

Wow! Great answer and solution! I'll try to redo the whole thing with your great advice. Hopefully I can get it to work. Thanks.

Hi Corey, check that the model is uploaded at the correct scale on Shapeways. I uploaded your model without any changes, and it shows up fine for me, so that's the only thing I can think of!

Zip the ####.rb file and then rename the ####.zip file extension to ###.rbz You can also do the reverse if you've an .rbz and need to make it an .rb If you can't see the .zip file extension then google how to make your OS display file extensions.

Thanks, I'll take a look into it.

Thank you so much for your help guys! Really appreciate it