Cutting components leave holes after their layers are made invisible

[MikeWayzovski]

@masp

or perhaps putting cutting components inside layers is an unusual sketchup design pattern?

That might be , but I have seen stranger ones
I have tried to do this in my.sketchup.com, the relative new online platform and the behavior also there!
For other work approach, have you seen this extension ?

FlexTools Extension

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