[Tutorial > Modeling] why dont my doors make holes in walls

[sorgesu]

The fun is in the giving. I'm so glad I could be of use.

[boofredlay]

Moved to the Tutorials & How to - SketchUp - Modeling.

Thanks a million Susan.

[Wo3Dan]

Thanks Gaieus and Suzan for your tip about ‘wall thickness and components cutting holes’ (just back from 3 wks France, that explains the delay in responding)
I will certainly look into it to see where I went wrong. I do remember also trying to nest two components (inner/outer) in one and later exploding that component again. But in vain. The result was always: loss of the cutting ability for both the inner and outer components. Thanks again.

Wo3Dan

[Gaieus]

Wodan,

I just saw you online and then that my PM was "delivered".
I hope you had a nice time during your vacation!

Here the solution is in the setting of the gluing plane of the "outer" component (to be aligned with the face the inner - nested - componetnt is cutting) - as Susan described - and then it works fine.

[AcesHigh]

personally, I gave up on the component cutting feature.

I preffer to just take a measure of the component, cut the walls myself (when drawing or after extruding the walls to 3D) and just put the component on the ready hole.

(AcesHigh)