Box - Again, thank you. I had the faces option from before. I had to go to the edges option.

You probably don't need to uninstall and reinstall SketchUp.

Why is the drawing size 371.44" by 236.14"? Seems to me that would be a pretty big molding profile. Or a clue as to what the problem is. It would be helpful to see the SKP file.

@tig said: Your final paragraph is what worries me... IF you were unable to add files to the Plugins folder then there should be warning messages... If I fiddle with my permissions to limit them I get error messages and can't continue. It never let's me think I've installed it OK when I have not... So whatever subtlety of permission settings you had tricked it into thinking it can work, and that it had worked - it is perplexing Well, that's exactly why I responded to this thread. It sounded like the OP's problem was the same. No warning, and no effect. The solution is simple, the source of the problem - who knows? Like I said before - no activity in the Ruby console with this error.

sketch3d Thanks for your reply. That what I did. I have 2013 so I hope this will work. Not getting rid of old laptop until I know I am good to go. Thanks again Ken

Sorry Joe. My answer is, it depends. I mostly use the Classic Bezier Spline. It seems to do what I need for most curves.

I expect the issue is that the CAD import is only edges, no faces. That's normal for a 2D CAD import.

I don't know exactly what the problem is but a couple of things come to mind. The first one is that the Permissions for the Plugins folder aren't set to Read and Write. Another is that you've got some plugin that is conflicting with CutList. Make sure you have some value in the box for saw kerf size. Why are you still running 4.1.5? We're up to 4.1.8 now. If you switch versions make sure you delete the older version and its folder first.

Thanks Guys. That did the trick.

Does someone have a solution to this now.... I have been looking for a answer to this problem also, the thing is I know my faces are co-planar because after it happens i can turn on hidden lines and delete the triangulations without losing my surface. Triangulation does occur from the intersect faces command as mentioned above however in some situations if I try to create an opening in a surface by drawing on the face with a rectangle or lines (my usual preferred method) then it does not cut any hole and also creates more faces across the entire surface (usually 2 extra surfaces on top of the original) in the same plane. My firm recently moved to 2013 from SU7 and it is definitely has more bugs and issues while being slower to run in general.

As a quick reference, if you zoom in on the axis lines, you will notice that the Red and Green lines are dotted on one side of the vertical axes, and solid on the other. The solid green is north The dotted green is south Solid red line is east Dotted red line is west

I downloaded Sketchup 2013, and that fixed it. I hate that Slicer5 does a better job, but I have already paid for SliceModeler v1.4, although I cannot seem to find the download link for it. I have been playing around with version 1.3. Thanks for your help.

@cwmunro said: I would appreciate that DaveR I'll try to have something for you this evening.

Are you really running SketchUp under Linux? On Windows and Macs, anyway, you need to have full permissions established for the Plugins folder. You need to be able to install files and in the case of many plugins, they need to have the ability to write to files in the Plugins folder to make the changes you do work.

thanks man, thanks for the monochrome tips too

You don't have to upgrade if what you've got is working for you. I would make sure it's the latest version of SU8, though.