Thanks for the quick replies guys!

I'll give it a go now and see how I get on.

I did wonder if the join was a feature of the Pro or other version...

Cheers!
Px5

Edit: Rich, I do like your signature!

Hi guys,

This is my first post here so please bear with me.

I recently downloaded the free version of Google Sketchup 7. I work as a project manager in IT and we are trialling different 3D software to give our clients a better understanding of layouts for servers, networks etc. etc.

I've been playing with Sketchup for a few days, and if it works as well as we hope we will purchase the Pro version. In the meantime I'm having a problem that is really bugging me! Quite simply, how do you join 2 shapes together to form one that can then be manipulated with other tools like the push/pull command?

For example, if I create 2 simple cubes and move them together I would like an option to join them as one to form a rectangle. The Google help site has a join option with a glue pot as an icon, but I cannot find it anywhere. Here's their link: http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=95550

I've tried the Intersect options but it still leaves me with 2 independent objects. The same would be with 2 flat surface squares, or freehand shapes. How is this done?

Cheers guys!
Px5