How does one Push/Pull an angled shape?

Push/Pull goes straight and leaves a wedge which if you delete you end up with a hole:

Possible I could remove the end pieces and Push from the Left or Right??

http://gettheworkdone.net/images/sketchup/Angle-PushPull_Question.skp

I have hacked it up enough so that I have something that at least looks like what I want but it is full of holes.

Thanks for the help,

Ralph

Wow Jean, thanks so much. That is a great tutorial.

Luckily we are having winter weather, unlike last year, so I am able to spend some good time just playing with , oh er, I mean working with SketchUp 8 Pro.

Your method would work with the free version and Pro, one of the reasons I went with Pro was the "Solid Tools" specifically for the Subtract method of which I have a new challenge. I just posted a new question about Holeshttp://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=50714&e=0. My top surface has some bumps so I cannot just push object one through object two, or I would have to know how to make some dimples on the top inside surface.

Thanks once again Jean.
Ralph

I am making holes when I add some small bumps to a surface.

I put the bumps on a flat surface to see if that would help.

I am using the [url]http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30504]"Solid Inspector"[/url] plugin to illustrate the holes.

This showed up trying to use the Pro Solid Tools Subtract method.

The bumps are not solid when placed on the surface of the 2nd object, they appear to be solid when just on the first flat surface.

I tried extruding the bumps directly off the 2nd surface but that also produces holes.

So how do I make this solid?

http://gettheworkdone.net/images/sketchup/holes.skp

Thanks for the help.

Ralph

Wow, thanks everyone. Sorry that probable was an ignorant question, I am sure with time I would have figured most of it out.

Now that plugin byhttp://sdmitch.blogspot.fr/sdmitch is interesting I cannot wait to see how it actually works.

All of your replies will really help.

Thanks again,

Ralph

Well hello everybody, I am brand new to SketchUp and to the SketchUcation Community Forum.

I have SketchUp 8 Pro.

My interest are in 3D printing so I probable never will do a architectural drawing.

I am trying to learn the "Solid Tools" specifically the Subtract tool. I understand the basic function but what I need is precise positioning.

Say I have two boxes one being 10 x 20 x 10 the other 8 x 20 x 5 and I want to subtract the smaller from the larger box using the two bottoms for alignment.

How do I precisely align them? Currently I am having to look at everything from multiple angles to see if my edges align and even then it is sometimes hard to get the lines exactly over each other, or at least for me it is.

I have used other graphic programs where one would just select two edges and there would be an auto align function (button) that would put everything in sync.

Now I just started using SketchUp and the Solid tools so probable I'd eventually learn how to do this but thought I'd ask.

Thanks for the help,

Ralph