To me it looks like there is geometry running towards the inner face of the front wall.
It could verry well be that both faces (inner and outer wall faces) of the front somehow arenāt parallel.(anymore). Turn on hidden geometry and inspect the inner wall face. It may even be split up into several parts. But even with āHidden Linesā on and nothing showing, this may be a case of not planar geometry within tolerance. So also inspect the inner wall for differences in vertices by measuring perpendicular to the face.
all four corners of the wall thickness measures 14". I donāt understand why i was able to Push holes in the same wall for the other windows but now I cantā¦
If you send me your email i can email it to youā¦ I have to leave in ten minutesā¦
Click on my avatar and use 'Message" in the upper right corner to send me a pm.
@Wo3Dan I donāt know if its because Iām a new user but I do not see the option to PM anywhere. Can you send me a PM and I will reply?
Ok. I have the PM thing workingā¦ can someone send me a PM with an email address so I can forward my drawing to them to see if they can find my issue? This is driving me nuts!
You model looks like several 10kb not 6 MB. You should be able to reduce its size and upload it here. This way others can learn from the answers too.
I have tried thatā¦I have tried everything that was suggestedā¦ It is at 7,377ā¦ 3050 is the max size it will let me sendā¦
It wasnāt at this already?
so sorryā¦ yes. I did get it down to 5,718.
But that was deleting everything in the drawing but the front wall in question. still not to the 3,050
Upload it to the warehouse so everyone can check it.
Ok. I was unable to sign in on Friday to upload itā¦ It allowed me to do it today. Listed under āInternational Buildingā.
āInternational Truck Buildingā
As was mentioned above, Purging your file reduces it hugely.
Apart from that there was assorted hidden geometry all over the place and a long way from the origin.
It looks like you used imported cad files of some sort.
It was easiest for me, as Iām going to bed, to simply take the building into a fresh model, leaving all the other problems behind.
Fixed and purged.skp (2.4 MB)
So what did you do? because I have drawn more items in the drawing that I will need to incorporate. Also, I started drawing from scratch. I donāt think I imported anything from CAD.
As Box has observed, you have a lot of geometry drawn far from the building, and the building itself is far from the model origin. We see this kind of thing often when a model is imported from CAD, which is why he suggested that possibility. This is the first time I have seen it in a model drawn entirely in SketchUp, so I am not sure how you arrived at this situation. One possibility is drawing in perspective view while not paying close attention to inference snaps. Another is creating a glue-to component and then moving it off the surface it originally glued to. In this case SketchUp tries to keep it on the original gluing plane while simultaneously locating it where it will project to the current cursor location on the view. This combination of effects can cause the location to be far in front or in back of where you expected! Because of the extreme spread of items in your model, it is hard to find them and zoom in to see what they were intended to be (also some are hidden). I did quite a bit of zoom-extents, select everything except the building, and then delete to get to where I could see the building to work with it!
Getting to your specific problem, the two guide points you created on the upper left part of the front wall are not actually on the face of the wall! In addition, you can not click to points on the ātailsā of a guide point. I created guide lines using the top and bottom of the bank of windows at the other side, and in the attached extreme zoom, you can see that the guide points do not lie on the guide lines. This makes it impossible to draw a rectangle using those guide points that will pushpull an opening in the face of the wall. You have the same problem on the inside of the wall, where you have drawn unnecessary guide points and a rectangle also slightly askew.
I suggest you delete the guide points and rectangles, draw guide lines and use them to place the rectangle. I had no trouble cutting an opening after doing that.
Wow. I totally understand what you are talking about. A few minutes ago, I did the same thing again but I caught it! My guid lines were not on the wall plane and it wouldnāt let me push through. After correcting the guid lines I was able too.
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Eli Gomez
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There really are some major issues with your model that will cause you problems if you donāt fix them.
Your Building is over 99000ā from the origin and at the origin you have several components including a full desk set. This will cause navigation and clipping issues. As you can see in this gif
You have 120 layers, I suspect you are not quite understanding how to use layers.
You need to delete all the extraneous, loose and hidden geometry and move everything to the model origin.