Hi pbacot,
I have gone back to step one in the creation of a foundation as provided by Dale Stephens and I am just not able to erase where the bearing wall footing meets the exterior wall footing. I've printed off the narration for the instructional videos, highlighted what I think are the pertinent points and attempted to run through the steps multiple times without the pay-off at the end of getting the intersection line to erase. I am attaching the video script/narration for the entire series, but it's only Episodes 4 and 5 that I am speaking off. I do each of the steps and then want to do the clean-up that Dale suggests, but erasing just the intersection line isn't happening for me. I am asking, if you wouldn't mind, that you run through the two steps and create a foundation in SketchUp and see if you can get the intersection line to erase. For the life of me, I can't make it happen. Each time I think I have the solution by refining my earlier steps to make sure everything is square, when I get the final step it turns out that I don't!
Any further help would be tremendously appreciated.
Kevin

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Thanks, pbacot. Your answer makes logical sense to this beginner. I'll give it a try and let you know.

Hello,
I'm a newbie and am using SketchUp 2014 and attempting to follow Dale Stephen's Sketchup Guide for Builders. In bringing a bearing wall footing up the the exterior wall footing, I am not able to erase just the line where the two meet. I end up, no matter what I do, erasing various faces and lines of the exterior wall or of the bearing wall footing. The downloaded tutorial that I am learning uses SketchUp 2013 and the eraser tool has a square 'head' for lining up with lines. In SketchUp 2014, that square 'head' is now a round circle. Not sure if that has anything to do with anything at all, but I want to mention it in case it does. I'm inside the group that I have formed for the footing layer, but I just can't seem to erase the single intersection lines. What am i doing wrong?

Thanks for any assistance you can provide!