How can I remove triangles from faces in my model?

[boxlord]

The diagonal lines are preventing me from importing textures. When I try to put a texture on a face, it only goes into one triangle or half of the face.
Here is my file.
packaging.skp (166.3 KB)

[DaveR]

You can hide or soften those edges but they are required to support faces because the bounding edges aren’t coplanar.

[boxlord]

Is there a way to import a texture onto both faces if I cannot merge them?

[DaveR]

No. Import the texture onto one and the apply the same texture to the neighboring face.

[boxlord]

I dont know how you matched it so perfectly.

[boxlord]

Did it!

[DaveR]

How did you apply the texture to the faces? It looks like you imported it twice. I only imported it once and then sampled it from the first face before applying it to the others.

[boxlord]

I went to file, import, then clicked on the a point in the corner. But it looks like you imported in a different way.

[DaveR]

@boxlord

But it looks like you imported in a different way.

File>Import, apply the texture to one face, done.

[boxlord]

One more thing. I cannot get this texture to line up with the trapezoid shape.

[boxlord]

Here’s the texture. It gets clipped off. No matter how I resize it.

[Box]

Turn on hidden geometry so you can select just one triangle, right click and choose Texture/Position and adjust it to suit.

[boxlord]

That made it worse. Now the jpegs are imported too large. And when I attach it to the face, its extremely close up. Even when I click position. And it still forces me to import it to a triangle.

[Box]

Have you spent any time learning the Fundamentals of Sketch Up.
https://learn.sketchup.com/

[boxlord]

Not really. Im learning on the fly. But i managed to figure it out. Felt like playing a puzzle game and I feel it should be simpler to do this.

[boxlord]

Its much easier with fixed pins turned off. Thanks for the help.