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      Projecting geometry?

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      Rich gave you several suggestions that can do that sort of thing. Sometimes it just requires thinking ahead a few steps. If I was modeling this piece and like you decided to add the hand hole late in the design, I would have put the hand hole in the left hand side component, then replaced the right side component with the left one (select the old right side, right click on the left one in the components panel and choose Replace Selected. Then Make Unique and use the shelf to cut a new dado in the new right side with Eneroth Trim or Bool Tools 2 Trim. It take a little forethought and planning for possible changes but it's not difficult and takes little time, especially with keyboard shortcuts.
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      Offsetting arc makes it a curve?

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      Maybe it's an optical illusion, but the front surface of the box looks slightly concave to me. As @box wrote, we would need to see the model to say more surely.
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      LO-Delete Label Leader, or create Text linked to component

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      @dave r said: I moved your thread to the LayOut category. Oops, Thanks. @unknownuser said: Is there a way to delete the leader from a label after it's been placed? You can explode the label and delete the leader. If the label is using any auto text you'll lose that link. @unknownuser said: Is there way to link Text to a component and use the entity Auto-text options? No. When I want to do what you are proposing, I change the opacity for the leader to transparent in Shape Style. Then the leader doesn't show but the label is attached. [attachment=0:3dqdtuse]<!-- ia0 -->label.gif<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3dqdtuse] That works! I was trying to turn off the stroke and didn't even think to make it transparent. Thanks again!
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      Done different for smaller file? - random holes w/CompSpray

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      @box said: Two of these are a texture made by exporting a 2d image png with transparent background. Can you tell which is the real one? It's all a bit furry in the screengrab. [attachment=0:j019fl3y]<!-- ia0 -->Screenshot 2022-01-11 093640.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:j019fl3y] Up close you can see the difference, but it all depends what you want to do with the model and how much real detail you need. Thanks Box. I think I see what you're getting at. Expectation is to build a quality visual model for client and then going into layout and creating fabrication prints of the panel(s) for the laser shop. Nic
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      Place guide in round hole center, make an axis

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      @spreadcore said: Yes, I am. I don't particularly like using programs that I have to be online to use. So I don't use the newest ver. SketchUp 8 works just fine for the little stuff I do. Since you are a hobbyist you could use SketchUp 2017 Make. You don't have to be online to use it.
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      Hole creation Plugin?

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      What kind of holes are you putting in to your model? What are you modeling?
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      Trim a piano hinge to length. Converted STP file

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      First, when I need to have SketchUp models of hardware like your hinge and door hasp, I prefer to either use the 2D CAD files (McMaster-Carr offers them for many of the items they sell) or I will work from a dimensioned drawing. I create the component with as little detail as I can get away with and still communicate what it is. Since these are not objects that I'll be creating manufacturing drawings for, there's no real benefit in adding lots of detail. The more detail you add the larger the file becomes and the more work your computer has to do to deal with it. I'd expect that your hinge, for example, doesn't really need a pin. Maybe the hasp doesn't need the hinge portion on the back. Now, before extensions, the first thing I do is look closely at the geometry. Turning on Hidden Geometry helps because it shows stuff like all those softened edges I showed in the screen shot. I also work with the Face Style set to Monochrome so I can identify and fix reversed faces. Then as far as extensions go, there's Thom Thom's CleanUp3 and Solid Inspector2. There's also Fixit. Look in the Sketchucation Plugin Store. FWIW, I often hear people say they don't want to spend the time creating components but they usually spend much more time fixing up components made by others to make them usable or waiting for their computer to complete some task due to the obese components someone else made. I'd rather put in a few minutes up front and make a good component than waste the time fixing what somone else did or dealing with objects imported from other software. FWIW, if you use 2D .dxf or .dwg files in SketchUp, use them as references but draw your own geometry.
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      Small circles don't drape?

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      I suspect you may be using more than the default 24 segments for your circles.
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