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    How can I remove wall thickness?

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    • J Offline
      janderson58
      last edited by

      Hello everybody, I'm new to sketchup.
      If someone gave me a Sketchup model and said they needed the X" thick walls to be single planes with no depth, what would be the best way to do that? Is there a Ruby?
      I've tried the Multiple push/pull but it always wants to remove half of the planes.

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        Screenshot of the model?

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        • Jean LemireJ Offline
          Jean Lemire
          last edited by

          Hi folks.

          The quickest way I found so far:

          1 - Double click on the face that you want to keep to select it and its perimeter.

          2 - Make a group with the selection.

          3 - Triple click the other face to select it, its perimeter and all the other edges and faces that make the sides of the thick wall.

          4 - Delete the selection. Only the group will remain.

          5 - Explode the group, if needed.

          In step 1, if you single click the face, you will need to use the Edit Menu --> Make group to create the group since the contextual menu don't show the choices to create a group or a component when a single entity is selected. This glitch has already been reported to the developers of SU. I know it makes ne sense to consider grouping only one entity since it is, after all, alone, but, to separate it from other geometries, it makes sense.

          See this SU file for ideas:

          Removing thickness.skp

          Jean (Johnny) Lemire from Repentigny, Quebec, Canada.

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