I’ve tried this a number of ways, and I even uninstalled Sketchup 2015 and reinstalled it, restarting my computer in between to see if it would fix my problem. It used to work, but not now. I make a window shape, make it into a component, copy it to another location on the same plane. Then I sele…

It sounds to me as if you’ve made a group instead of a component. We could answer definitively if you could share a sample SKP file that exhibits this behavior.

It does, but I clicked “Make Component”, and glued to “Any”, “Cut opening”, etc. Attached is an example. Thank you for your help[TestFile.skp|attachment] (72.6 KB)

A gluing-behavior component must have its ‘blue’ axis perpendicular to the face onto which it will be placed. It will then glue onto that face as hoped. If it also has cutting-behavior set, then it will cut a hole in that face. Also be sure that the blue-axis is perpendicular to the font of the f…

It looks that there is only one component. Take a look with Outliner (Windows > Outliner). So perhaps you opened the component to edit mode before copy? Activate the component with one click only, make a copy and then it should work. Double click will get you to edit mode.

I don’t know. I can’t open that file now - it says it is locked by another user and is read only (?) Anyway, maybe I’m opening the components the wrong way? It looks like if I click or double click from Outliner, it’ll do what I want. If I try to open by clicking on the instance, it doesn’t work…

Seeing it in action :wink: I used the move modifier Ctrl (Microsoft Windows) or Option (Mac OS X) to move a copy to the second location - http://help.sketchup.com/en/article/94866 [image]

The issue is a typical mistake by new users. You made a component of the “window” on the left but then you opened the component and copied geometry over to the right to make the second one. For these screen shots I deleted your walls so it’s only the windows we’re looking at. You can see the blue b…

Thank you all! This BB is a tremendous resource. You’ve all given me a lot to play with. Unfortunately, I also have to work for a living, so I can’t grind up all my time learning skp! But, it’s coming. I appreciate your help.

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lasseh November 3, 2015, 8:51pm 7

Yes, Outliner helps when working with components. Clicks/double-clicks should of course work the same way in model as in Outliner…

For “Locked by another user” you can find some info from this forum… like this:

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