
Line tool not drawing and creating faces in strange places
Feb 15, 2024 · Hello all, I am a new sketchup user, and I have encountered a problem I can’t seem to find the solution to. A few days ago, I could use the line tool to trace the edges of …
Measuring area in Layout - Feature Requests - SketchUp Community
Oct 4, 2025 · Hi, I would like a feature that displays the area of a shape in Layout much like Layout displays. I am referring to shapes drawn to scale in Layout not to elements modelled in …
How to draw lines only on the face? - SketchUp Community
Oct 31, 2022 · Like this, I have drawn a plane, so next I want to continue drawing on this plane, but instead of pointing in Figure 1, I suggest the endpoint - in the group; however I want to …
Shapes not forming & filling? - SketchUp Community
Oct 9, 2018 · In order to get a face to form, the edges surrounding the face must lie on the same plane. Your model the edges done. Notice the variation in the Y and Z coordinates, for …
I feel like an idiot... How to create a face / side?
Sep 11, 2014 · HI , to create a face all the edges have to be joined , co planer and without any edges protruding into the proposed face. Without having the file its hard to tell what your …
Drawing a line perpendicular to a randomly oriented plane
Dec 28, 2022 · I have a rectangle that is randomly oriented in 3d space. I want to draw a line normal (perpendicular) to it. I can’t figure how to do it.
How can I disable automatic face creation? - SketchUp Community
May 7, 2017 · I’m trying to draw irrigation lines on top of a drawing after doing sprinkler heads and water throw circles and sketchup wants to create a bunch of faces on this cluttered diagram …
How do you make a surface/ face on a slanted edge and trapezoid …
Feb 2, 2015 · Hi, I’m trying to insert a face on the upper (red) portion of the side of this shape: I’ve tried drawing lines and sticking another rectangle on it (slanting it, then trying to trim the extra …
Why I cannot intersect faces? - SketchUp Community
Mar 29, 2017 · I have resorted to just creating yet another new plane on the face or the intersected plane, manually re-drawing the openings inferenced to the intersected openings …
Help closing shape face - Pro - SketchUp Community
Apr 13, 2018 · Hi, I’m trying to close a shape so that it can be filled. I would greatly appreciate some help/advise… The line highlighted blue (pedestrian path) in the screenshot below is the …