How do I make an object non-solid.
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I have a simple box and I want to make it non-solid, how would I do that?
Thanks!
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Make a little hole in the bottom face ?
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Or put a little line inside the box with an endpoint floating aimlessly.
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What do you mean by non-solid? Do you mean you want SketchUp to report it as not being solid? Or do you want it to just look like an open box? Or is it something else you're after?
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I can't see why you would want to do this - most people struggle in the other direction trying to make their objects 'solid'...
BUT assuming it has some hidden use we can't think of... a small hole will make it 'non-solid'... if you want all 6 faces of 'the box' to remain the same, but for it to be 'non-solid', you must add something else into its group/component like another group - e.g. group one of its faces - or add a single diagonal non-faced internal line that is then hidden - use Xray mode [or put it on an off-layer].A manifold 'solid' contains no entities other than faces and their edges, and every edge must have two faces - no more, no fewer - it's a simple rule [note that for these purposes 'guides' are ignored].
So the converse is true - to make something 'non-solid' you must ensure that the simple rule is broken!
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