@sdmitch said:

@justsumguy said:

Thanx sdmitch, can you tell me a little of how you did that?

I used a couple of Ruby snippets. The first one gave the the Normal of the 'back' face.

The second one used that normal and a point on the 'front' face to define a plane. Then each vertex of the 'front' face was transformed so it was on that plane. This made the two faces parallel.

and as I look into that, I can see its way past my level for now

Thank you much!!

P.S. my part is printing now and looking good

Thanx sdmitch, can you tell me a little of how you did that?

@pbacot said:

It can depend on your model. Look at the model with hidden lines to see if your faces are clean (not actually a surface with many faces). The faces have to parallel. could something have changed that?

It appears your right, I checked it the two faces were parallel just by measuring distance on the four corners and they are not.

Now to figure out how to make them so.....

Thanx

@pbacot said:

It can depend on your model. Look at the model with hidden lines to see if your faces are clean (not actually a surface with many faces). The faces have to parallel. could something have changed that?

I don't know how to check if everything is still parallel.

no hidden lines tho.

Attaching file if you want to look. You can see the circle on the face I want to push thru and you can see what I am doing because its done on the other side of the part.

Sketchup 2017 btw

E3D V6 holder -1.2.skp

hello, I am really new to 3d design and just started with sketchup a few weeks back.
Doing this for 3D printing and my first efforts are to make some modification parts for my printer.

Ok my question is this:

What can prevent the push/pull tool from making a hole from a basic circle?

I know I am doing it right, I have my model and I make a hole on one face, push it thru to the other face and it meets up but does not make a hole, I can push it thru and back but when its on face it just vanishes below or leaves a circle on the face.

I know I am doing it right because I can make a box right beside my model and do it fine to that box, but after hours and hours I cant get a hole drilled thru my model!!

I have installed the Solid inspector 2 and it says everything is "shiny" but no luck.

What can be stopping this???

It did work fine, my orig model has holes in it, I just need to enlarge them slightly and I cant because well, I cant!!

Thanx in advance