Thanks a lot, that intersect with model didn't come to mind at all. Also, I was thinking about model directly with thickness but it is much easier to create the stripes flat first and then use push push/pull.

@gaieus said: What video card do you have? Have you tried updating its driver? It's not a display issue. I can be in a model previously made and do push pull on any EXISTING face. If I do a new face I cannot do push pull on it. It acts like a move tool and the whole face, polylines and all just move up / down / sideways. And I have updated both video and mouse drivers. I sent the model to a friend and he has no problem doing push pull on a face I can't. I have the first version of 8 on a laptop and I can work it just fine on that. My computer was shutdown when we had a power loss and that may have corrupted the file but I don't think this is it. I have re-installed 8 to no avail. There must be some common issue with all the versions I have becuae all my versions, V6, V7, and V8 act the same way.

View your model in a Style with a distinctly colored back-face-material - say bright-blue. Now view your model in Monochrome mode and any reversed faces will stand out. As has been said select them and right-click context-menu Reverse-Face to flip them. There are also many scripts available to flip such faces from simple flippers to swapping over front/back materials as well. If the face forms part of a 'solid' [probably required in the export you are doing] then selecting one correctly oriented face and using the context-menu Orient-Faces will flip all of the connected faces to be the same orientation - however if it's not solid you can get odd results as three faces on one edge can never be oriented consistently - one will also be 'wrong' !

Thanks guys, the middle button! Wow! I had no idea!

You guys are GREAT, thanks for the replies, I will try them all and find out what I am doing wrong and then report my findings. aloha red

The PageExIm plugin ($5) can do it. It's also included into a couple of bundles. "Manually" you can do this (say export a camera from file A to B) Make a copy of file A and delete everything in it but keep the scenes. Copy everything from file B and paste in place (Edit menu) into file A

Email "Jeremy" jeremy@nextlimit.com he's the creator of the plugin. -Brodie

Both those suggestions were just what I was looking for. Thanks a lot for that.

If you upload these models to the 3D Warehouse, there is a checkbox that it is real and existing (or what). Leave that empty and all will be good. If you do not even upload them, there's even less to worry about.

@bryan k said: What can I do to lessen the aliasing in SketchUp, if anything? the SU anti-aliasing setting can be configured under: "Windows > Preferences > OpenGL... > Capabilities" Be aware that aa slows down rendering speed and may create some display flickering or blurred textures. And do not change the default aa setting in the Catalyst, i.e. keep the "let application decide" option for a working 'fast feedback' in SU. hth, Norbert

well, he probably work for CIA, old KGB and Mossad at the same time

The lowest cost 3D solid modeler I have found that works well with SketchUp is Alibre. They have a hobby version for $200. I have used the pro version for years doing product design and found it to work well.

If you did things in the order you described, the transparent material is applied to the faces and then you tried to apply the water material after you made the component but without opening the component for editing. Materials applied to faces supersede materials applied to components. Open the component for editing and apply the water material to the desired face.

I'd like to say its a gift I have... but as I've never written a poem in my life I think it was more due to a lucid moment - & a glass or two of wine! Seriously though, I (& I think a few others, judging by responses) just wanted to say thanks for so much assistance. After working on my own (with just AutoCAD) I started working with SketchUp this year and found SkecthUcation. Its like coming in from the cold! Ok, I'll stop gushing now!

Set up Styles and Scene-tabs to save view/layers/shadows per tab etc, also use Layers on/off to hide unnecessary things as you model. Work with shadows off and edge-detailing simplistic etc... The when you are ready to render switch on the 'presentation' tabs to see the shadows etc. No one models anything very complex with shadows 'on'... [unless you want to get angry!]

Maybe you must post your file somewhere and give a link to it

Attached is the file. Sorry for the slow response Edit: Just remade the model from scratch and got the same issue. sketchup_odd.skp

Hi Mike, hi folks. If you just want the same opening in both faces of a thick roof, draw the rectangle on one face and then push it through. Otherwise, maybe the attached SU file can help. Roof window aligned with ceiling opening.skp