@rich o brien said: Use Fredo Joint PushPull extension... Click to play gif... [attachment=0:zt5pscfg]<!-- ia0 -->jpp.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:zt5pscfg] Thanks that looks great! as for the initial shape prior to the extrusion, which tool would be best?

@dave r said: How are you installing Fredo's extensions? I have tried using both Extension Mgr and by downloading the .rbz and installing through Windows>Preferences. Either way errors on startup. I have already gone through all the possible fixes, I'm going to try to install 2018 on my workstation later to test.

DONE! Thank you and may you have a splendid evening, thank you. Cheers!

If you expect the circular holes to penetrate into the form, then you need to draw over an edge in the circle to form a face, and PushPull that into the form by the desired dim, to make a recessed cylindrical hole. If you want a hole to punch completely through the form, then PushPull it more so it is completely through the form. Now select the new extended cylinder and use the Context-menu > Intersect with Model, to cut the cylinder at the lower surface. Now select the unwanted faces/edges of the cylinder and erase them. You should now have a hole that pass right through the form ?

I must be in the Twilight Zone....ya, that's it..... @rich o brien said: Are you referring to the component axes? You can toggle those off under preferences.

As part of using components, consider making very simplified proxy components to stand in for the complex components like your columns. If you make the proxies with the same relative origin and axis locations as the complex ones, you can easily swap one for the other using Select Instances and Replace Selected in the Components window. Also make sure you eliminate any unseen geometry. If details you are drawing won't be seen up close, make them simpler. The bead along the length of the crown molding doesn't need to be made of a large number of segments. Eight will probably do. If the insides of closet doors won't be seen, they don't need to be detailed on the inside. It's fun to see the materials as you go but resist the urge to paint as you build. Save painting for the end. By the way, keep up on correcting face orientation as you go. It's a lot easier to fix it as you go along than it is to go back and fix it.

Hi, Thanks a lot, that's perfect. Cheers

Open the 3D Warehouse in your browser, sign in if you aren't already signed in, and upload the files using the upload button. [image: 0kH4_Screenshot-3_28_201812_27_40PM.png]

You are using layers incorrectly. Have read here. https://help.sketchup.com/en/article/3000122

Ok Daniel, fair enough. But I'll just add this for the benefit of anyone coming after. This is an unlicensed copy of 2018 3 days into its trial and as you see by moving the toolbar to the edge of the workspace it snaps to vertical. [image: Ct9I_Toolbar.gif]

Looks like a pain to clean! But I guess if you can afford it you aren't the one cleaning it!

Glad I could brighten your day Kat! If you do any vector-based stuff be sure to check out Affinity Designer, I don't use it though. From what I hear Affinity's working on some other tools to replace some other Adobe graphics-related tools with, I think it is lightroom they have their cross-hairs on but can't tell for sure.

If I recall correctly, SketchUp Pro has a dynamic component of a bed that comes with it (crafted by SketchUp), maybe see if you can find this and poke around there a little.

I always liked the weather report from the chopper in Good Morning Vietnam...."It's hot & wet..."

Either way, I'd only model half of it since it is symmetrical.

Thank you tig i ll take a look at this and come back to you when i find the solution.

You are probably right. But I only trace buildings that I have to refurbish/convert, and I always double check measurements on site. The only other scenario I can think of for tracing buildings is for archviz, where that accuracy doesn't seem needed to me. All my other buildings are modelled directly in sketchup. An advice I'd give you if you want to really use CAD imports is to group it and trace over the group with the rectangle tool. That will assure the orthogonal results which sketchup needs