@dave r said:
There was no face to extrude. I drew a line segment along an edge and the face filled in. Then Push/Pull had something to do.
I'm curious how you drew this because there are a lot of co-linear line segments that ought to be single lines.
Yes, this is exactly how I got the part to extrude, about a half-hour after posting this. One or more of my line segments must not have been co-planer.
As to how it was drawn: I initially tried to draw it 'free hand' in Sketchup, but kept screwing up the drawing plane. Next, I drew it quite easily in Layout with the cool grids supplied. However upon exporting as DXF, and importing back into Sketchup I just could not get the real-world scale to work.
Finally, I switched back to Sketchup, put myself into an ortho-view, and drew several guide-lines spaced (horizontally) at +1/4" and +5/8"; with perpendicular guidelines to create the line vertices I needed to complete the profile. I then just used the line tool to draw from guideline vertices to guideline vertices. Finally, I made a 'group' of all my line segments, and copied the group with an offset of 1/4" (the thickness of my sheet). By joining these two groups with short line segments at each end, I assumed I had a closed face.
Each resulting 'sheet section' is actually repeated (in the horizontal plane) 4 times, for a single sheet dimension of 36". In the real-world these 36" sheets can be as long as 45-ft!
I used the resulting sheeting to cover a barn-like structure (actually a high-school batting cage), and the sheeting is quite commonly used here in the Lone Star State.