Thanks for the fix Inio! This makes using SketchUp WAY less frustrating now. Is it recommended to leave hardware acceleration and fast feedback on with this patch and the Intel GMA X3100 integrated card?

Just a quick thank you, to those who answered. I appreciate you taking the time to answer simple questions, it certainlymade the whole process much less frustrating.

-David

Hi all,

I'm new to this forum and relatively new to SketchUp as well. At the moment the program is really making me gnash my teeth in frustration. I'm working on creating a headboard for a relatively simple bed design my plan was to draw all the necessary lines to define the pieces of the headboard and then push out the sections that I don't want... but I've been struggling to get faces that should be entirely closed to show up as faces. I've checked carefully that everything is on the same plane and that all the lines intersect, but so far I've had very little luck. It seems to be a particular problem when I use the offset tool to create curves that mirror each other. I'm sometimes able to get the faces to close by retracing the lines that are already there, but doing that is still inconsistent and is slowing my modelling to an absolute crawl and making me want to pull my hair out to boot!

I hope that explanation is relatively clear. I've attached a model of the bed I'm working on where you can see an example of the problem I'm having. In this particular example I can't get the narrow curved strip in the middle of the headboard to actually form a face. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
David

bed basic structure.skp