Hi all. Is there any way to apply a material to one continuous planar surface, ‘bridging’ component lines? Or is there any way to make component lines the same color and behavior as component surfaces? Or is there any way to combine a bunch of components into a single group, and ‘paint’ that group so the component lines disappear? This model is built of 4 ft wide panels, but I want to see how it will look with stucco, or any other surface finish, applied. Thanks for any suggestions.
If the panels are components you could hide the edges and paint them. If they’re not components you’ll have more work to do or use a plugin like S4U components to convert similar groups to components.
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I know, but when you hide edges there are NO edges. I want the SW to distinguish between an edge continuous with another component on the same plane, and an edge with air or ground on the other side. Hiding edges gives an indistinct image with no clear massing.
Instead of turning off edges in the style, hide just the edges and faces where the panels meet.
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Perhaps…https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/6b8d9d0f-3f8b-4101-9e0f-37dbf4372339/eneroth-visual-merge (I’ve never used it myself.)
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I wish. Looks great. Sadly, not compatible with 2026. I tried it and got an error loop that I had to force quit out of. 
It works in SketchUp 2026 for me.
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Hopefully you are using tags. Hopefully your walls and roof and etc. are organized by tags and you are also using groups / components.
Select all the walls, copy up 500 or 1000. With them all selected Right Click > Solid Tools > Union. Assign this massive wall geometry to a tag that makes sense (A-X-Wall-Finish). Move back into place. Turn off wall tag so the panels disappear. Paint as the massing as required.
Repeat for roof, floor, etc.
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Bang. This worked. Yes, using tags. Yes, have them all grouped sensibly.
But there’s no way to ‘undo,’ correct, other than paging back through Undos?
So best to work on a copy I am making ‘solid?’
Yes, copy them, make them into a solid mass… put them on a new layer, keep your original panel layout.
I do this all the time with SIPs and panelized wall construction (but I often also make the massing model a bit thicker than the panels, as I use this for construction docs as well as visualization.
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I think if you applied a tri-planar UV projection to each component then the textures would be seamless across the lines you have drawn.
You can do that with V-Ray tools or with SketchUV
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I’m on Mac. Maybe the issue? Tried again and got corruption.