Cutting Holes in Walls
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Hi everybody :
I'm having trouble figuring how to make a windows component cut a hole in a wall. I made a simple box. Offset the center....did the Push/Pull...to make it look like a room. Made it a component labeled walls. Then made another component labeled windows. I just sandwiched two window frames together. One part of the frame had the "glass". When I made the windows component, I selected Glue to ANY. Then checked "cut opening". Moved the window component over to the walls component. Set it in place and it didn't cut the opening. I made sure to have the depth of the window frame a little larger than the depth of the walls. I must be doing something wrong. garystan -
A gluing/cutting component needs its Z [blue] axis perpendicular to the face [out from] which it glues onto.
If you make such a component on an existing face then SketchUp corrects the axes accordingly, but unless you made the window frame 'flat' on the ground with its main face aligned with the target face it will fail, unless you sort out the axes when you make it initially.
Can I suggest you place an instance of it 'in space' and use the context menu to change its axes to suit.
Any previous instances need replacing with the new 'correctly glued' versions...Caveat:
Cutting-components only cut through a single face, so if you have two skin walls these not work - the inner face will not be punched - unless you use convoluted workarounds, or Plugins... -
What he said. Also you may have got lucky and made the component properly, but just dragging it over to the wall will not necessarily work. Try inserting fresh from the component browser.
You have to be in the context of the face you wish to cut. You can't cut a surface that is inside a component unless you are editing that component.
The simplest cutting component can be made on a surface. Draw a rectangle on an ungrouped surface and make it a component set to cutting etc. remove the face of the rectangle and it will be cutting that surface. You can place any component inside that component representing the parts of the window but the original outline edges may not be in a nested component or group. They need to be in the first level of the cutting component.
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More simple is make the hole then draw Doors, Windows...components
Try this
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