Hey guys,

Thanks to all your help and advice, I think I've got a pretty strong model! I'm happy with how it turned out. I just had a couple of other questions.

1. How can I fill in holes. You'll see that on the internal office wall, I've got four windows. That's great, except one of the windows is right behind the support post. I drew in the windows with the column visibility turned off and messed it up. Is there a way to fill these sorts of push/pull holes back in?

2. I'm struggling with the move tool when trying to align object. Let's say I want to move Cube A to be RIGHT NEXT to Cube B. When I take the move tool and select an edge, it seems to pull the edge, not the entire shape. When I select an area inside the shape, I can move that no problem, but then when I attempt to align it, it's freehand.

Thanks for any info!

E

Building Model, Version 2.skp

@pbacot,

So as I'm redoing this, I'm a little unclear how to build the second story. It goes on top of the office space in the above model.

Do I build it in a separate part of the document then lift and move using the top/left/front camera angles? Is there away to auto-align things? How do I make sure it doesn't interfere with the bottom floor? Just make it into it's own component?

Is there a way to use the move command specifically, like when drawing rectangles? Maybe like, 1'2"z or something?

Thanks!

E

Whoops! I found the attachment. Ad Blocker was being a little fussy.

Hey guys, thanks for all your help. @peter, would you mind attaching the demo file? I'd like to take a look. So, layers are just really semantic? They don't actually isolate anything?

Do components isolate? If I put component A on top of Component B, will they interfere at all or are they completely separate? How do groups contribute to this?

I think I'm beginning to understand.

Do component hold sub components? For instance:
Make Circle A and Rectangle A into Component A. Make Circle B and Rectangle B into Component B in a completely different area. Line up rectangle B and recangle A, then make both components into a component. Does that then give me Component C = (Component A + Component B). Can you de-component a component? If so, do I get Component A and Component B back, or am I all the way back to basics with Circle A, B and Rectangle A, B?

Thanks,

E

Hey guys,

I decided to try my hand at Sketchup for a warehouse rehab project that I'm starting. I'm an engineer but haven't done any CAD. I do have a fair amount of Illustrator experience so I imagine some of my issues are related to my misunderstanding of how Sketchup works vs a vector art program.

I've run into a variety of snags:

1. I think my layers are jacked up. I've seen some info regarding Layer0 being special and the other layers should be used for visibility, and groups for other things, but I'm not sure how to put that all together.

2. When I raise the walls of "Lower Office" and also with the raised "Warehouse" walls, the faces look all jacked up. The warehouse walls are not single forms, and the edges of the walls are missing faces. The Lower Office when raised also is missing faces on the edges. How do I "close" and edge after adding a line?

3. I tried the "weld" plugin to attempt to close up the lines in the faces, but that didn't really work either.

4. In the "Warehouse" layer, I'm trying to make small, 6' high walls between the posts. The walls seem to be attached to the TOP of the divider wall, instead of the bottom, and I can't figure out how to move them along the z-axis.

Could you guys take a look at my model and let me know where I've gone so wrong? Fundamentally, am I missing something about Sketchup?

Thanks for any help or advice,

Evan

Building Model.skp

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