Help - overlapping planes created by dividing a face

[robintb]

Hello,

If anybody can resolve this one easily I would be most grateful.

Basically, when I draw a line across a face that is approximately rectangular, one that divides the face in two, sometimes sketchup creates two overlapping planes, or three or four planes. Why is this? Anybody got any quick good ideas?

As far as i can tell, all points on the face perimeter are in the same horizontal plane.

thanks

[Gaieus]

Especially with the new, edge cutting feature of SU 7, this is much less frequent than with older versions. There can be many reasons, best would be if you could upload an example.

[Khai]

I've been getting this a lot
the method I've been taking is to delete the face I'm dividing then draw the dividing lines in, then selecting each subface to remove any extra faces using the delete tool.

at times I've had 4-5 stacked faces that I've had to remove before I started doing the above.

oh and an easy way to find stacked faces other than the Xray face mode (stacked faces show up darker) is with the paint tool.. if a face won't paint, it's stacked...