Select the backwards faces and use the "reverse faces: command in the contextual menu and get all the outward facing surfaces to be "front face" Yes, it can cause problems. If you don't see division edges between the reversed coloration, toggle "hidden geometry" in the view menu. Then you can reverse faces that are backwards separate from the adjoining smoothed faces. There are plugin tools to help this process if you have a lot of it, but that's the primary way to fix reversed faces.

That's not a slight work around. CutList is designed to work that way. You could make a set of colors with custom names to apply to the different components. If you apply them to the faces in the components, you only need to do that to a single instance and all other instances will get the same treatment. Save your collection of customized colors for later use. [image: tzXN_Screenshot-2_22_20189_35_02AM.png]

Every time I go to Costco my TV screen shrinks...

I started having an odd thing happen with the new 2018. The inferencing stops working on the red axis every blue moon. The only way to get it to work in session is to use the arrow keys to force it. Restarting SketchUp always solves it. Weird.

Very good. I'm happy you're all set.

@jakemm said: Update: Ok, it looks to be that because it was a simple model, that's why Sketchup got confused. Once I'd started adding some internal walls, everything magically worked as it should do! Without seeing it. That's what I figured. You can always just add a temporary flat roof or something. SU doesn't know a house from anything else. It's really just set to find some sort of negative space it seems.

Yes, there is no automatic way for it in SU. Maybe Thom needs more good suggestions for new tools in QFace/SubD workflow. I find Blender easier for this type of modeling but I will not quit on QFace/SubD workflow yet. I think there is room and will on Thom side to add more tools to ease things out when modeling with QFace/SubD way, we just need to present them to him.

does this cpu shot tell you anything? this took 25 seconds to export at 6000 pix wide, and the program seems to freeze and this white box appears on the screen and the little white box lower left .. [image: pJRN_2Untitled.png]

There is no risk if you make regular copies before every serious change.

Or do you mean you want to start with a sloping grid? You can rotate the "from scratch" grid up (or down) to 1:12 with the rotate tool.

@dohyungkim By default, JointPushPull, Joint Tool, uses the neighbour faces to constrain the direction, even if these faces are not part of the selection. You can disable this feature with one option which is in the button palette ("neighbour influence..."). I also recommend you migrate to the newest version of JointPushPull, v4.2a. Fredo

You might be able to use Bitmap to Mesh.

I figured it out I hope! when I put the little hooked pointer right on the endpoint I get the 'Enter Text', but when I move the little pointer to the right of the endpoit just a bit it works as it should you can't see the little pointer in this s shot but it's just to the right. [image: NMkB_1Untitled.png]

It wouldn't be appropriate to use the scale tool nor the Tape Measure tool on the trailer at least in one go because that will resize things you don't want to resize. You're better off to use the Move tool for much of it. You could scale the main frame but things like the lights and undercarriage will need to be moved, not scaled. As for scaling the main frame, the Tape Measure tool would work however if you double the width, you'll also double every thing else. That won't get you a 20' long trailer. Stretching its length by another 4' will wind up deforming a lot of the frame members, too. There are enough dimensions that will get changed inappropriately in this model that I would be inclined start over with the frame. Or, if you don't want to do that, there's another trailer model in the Warehouse that is 8-1/2 feet by 18 feet. It is actually built so it can be modified more easily and has an appropriate tongue and undercarriage for a trailer of that size. Both models need attention to some details stuff like face orientation.