I am new to SketchUp trying to create a smokebox for a model locomotive. It is simply a circle with a rectangle centred with two arcs to smooth the edges…all seemed to be going ok…I created the line drawing and turned it into a component…
But when I select I get a blue box around my drawing that was not something I put in place!
It means that I cannot pull…
Now I may have created this problem when I tried to centre the circle and the recta!ngle,I used the move tool but unsure if I did it right……
First, you need a face for Push/Pull to act on. You don’t appear to have that face. This could be due to the edges not laying on the same plane or because there is a small gap meaning you haven’t got a closed loop of edges.
Once you have the face, you also need to have the component open for editing so you can make modifications to it.
Steve shows you how to get the face but that will leave you with some geometry that needs to be resolved before the shape will be considered a solid. I’m not sure when edge segments you’ll want to get rid of or if you’ll wind up with the shape you really want with either of them.
This is called the Bounding box and is the individual ‘Container’ for all groups and components. Solid blue means it is selected and closed for editing, dotted gray means the g/c is open for editing.
If you visit this site The Learning Center, spend some time with materials, you will gain a lot of knowledge about Sketchup and how to make it work for you
