SketchUp 2015 Lessons: Cutouts & Intersecting Faces

Intersecting faces is more important in SketchUp modeling than you might have thought. Here are a few shortcuts and tricks to optimize your work that you may not have known.
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[@iinRez]

I've been scrubbing through tutorials all day, it's been enlightening and I can feel the solution I seek getting closer, thanks Aaron your presentation has been helpful.

[@peterbanse4631]

I totally agree with what the first guy said, your sketchup tutorials are by far one of the best around.

[@alanknight2434]

I needed to know how to connect intersecting faces. Looked it up and in less time it took to type this review it was explained. No fluff, no fuss just the info I needed. Thank you very much. You've just scored a new subscriber...

[@TrevorDennis100]

I love it when something that I have struggled with for ages and ages is suddenly made clear. I tried and it works just how you described it, so thanks for making SketchUp more usable for me. [EDIT] I've had to come back and edit this comment and say WOW WOW WOW !!! By heck the intersect tool makes a difference, and is soooo powerful. I just easily made a drawing that would have found completely impossible before because of its intersecting angles and curves. This is going to make so much difference to my use of SketchUp.

[@stanj9886]

Eureka! Excellent video. Combining or subtracting components or groups with the solid tools made all the difference.

[@mattyg19821]

Thank you very much!! I've been using the first method for ages and pulling my hair out, wish I'd seen this video before, thank you thank thank you!!

[@meenamamgain5181]

1000th like.... It was right in front of us the whole time...thank you so much

[@oronalul1364]

I'm using SketchUp 2023. The menu and icons look a bit different but it was still very helpful. Thanks!

[@MarRiver1793]

Thank you! This video was helpful.

[@3dstudioworks120]

Watching this in 2022 and still very relevant. Thank you!

[@legrandsacmagic]

Thank you for such informative well presented videos. You make taking sketch up to the next level a pleasure. BA (Hons) Architecture.

[@h.profile101]

great tips.... solved my issues :)

[@RonFinlay1]

Thanks. Great video. Do you open the solid tools as needed. I don't see how to add them to the open tool bar like you have. Also, I want to punch a round hole in a plate. Do I draw a circle and push pull or make a rod and intersect and subtract? So confused

[@adamisharuddin6903]

Thanks for the tutorial !

[@ArtbyKhater]

Thanks for this tips .. keep it up!

[@ArtofWEZ]

Thank You!

[@legacyfound]

Thanks a lot Have tho nagging problem of getting faces to intersect and when I try to force it via intersect faces command options it gives me the rotating wait wheel and or crashes with still no intersections being formed. Have to revert to 2 d tools draw on surface of even flat surfaces often: Do you, Aaron or for that matter does anybody else in the discussion, encounter this have this problem and if so how is it resolved ?

[@Overxpossed]

Hey man thank you very much for this :)

[@spud642007]

does this work with groups? what is the difference in this scenario?

[@SuperKaleido]

Is the process the same if you want a "arm" to protrude out from a up-right post at a 45-degree angle?

[@seksantipapala1878]

Thank you very much!

[@diabolopaganini]

Thank you very much

[@kevinyan3064]

thanks

[@palda8502]

Tks

[@arrowstheorem1881]

Thanks!!

[@age_of_reason]

Is this video at all useful to regular SketchUp or just Pro?

[@JuliusBangert]

Hi Aaron. Thanks for this video. Do you have any idea why I am able do this intersecting once using the solid tools, but then if I try to do it again with another object and the resultant object from the first opperation; I get this error message : "One or more of the selected objects is either not a solid or is locked. The non-solid/locked objects will be de-selected before this operation is performed." ?
Specifically, it seems to be a problem when I use the union tool or the outer shell tool and then try to use the subtract tool with the result and another solid.

[@JuliusBangert]

Could it be something to do with them being overlapping when I do the initial outer shell process? Ultimately I want to combine two overlapping solids, and then bore out a hole using another solid and subtract.

[@MattOGara]

I get that too Julius. Did you find the solution?

[@Traderhood]

Why don't you say Sketchup Pro in title? No solid tools in Make.

[@iinRez]

There are indeed here in 2017, you have to enable the toolbars you want from the View menu at the top of the screen. View>Toolbars.

[@tonyjohnson4572]

@@iinRez Wrong. Although you can enable the Solid Tools toolbar in Make, all but the first tool re greyed-out and only available in PRO.

[@Kreemerz]

He's not all that ideal for doing these tutorials. But because he's clickbait/scammer channel, his content comes up first.

[@zigjib]

Not sure if things have changed for the 2017 version but this doesnt work.

[@hamids4550]

This is sketch up pro which he didn't say

[@laconeccionvideo]

:D I'm using Sketchup8 and works!!!

[@zigjib]

@@laconeccionvideo you are gay

[@laconeccionvideo]

@@zigjib and you stupi d.

[@zigjib]

@@laconeccionvideo incorrect

[@rgammarino]

I don't have the solid tools you mentioned, How do I get them?
Rudy

[@stephenramos2824]

its pro only

[@haveiszalfaroqie1628]

2:22 - 2:30

[@RandallLeeReetz]

Only in Pro. We Make users are shit out of luck. These tools used to be available to everyone. Then google put them behind pay wall. Nice going. Thanks a lot.

[@iinRez]

I just downloaded SketchUp Make 2017 running it right now and I have those tools. I had to enable them from the Toolbars window found in the View menu. He goes over it from 2:22 - 2:30.

[@toma4474]

It's Trimble not Google. Google gave sketchup for free.

[@16renowidyowicaksono93]

damn how all those cilynder suddenly dissapear?

[@goldbunny1973]

Hm. It's not personal, I'm not a fan of tutorials that use microscopic icons and never show which ones you're actually pointing at, plus that doesn't seem honest to omit the detail that these Solid Tools functions don't exist in a non PRO version as some comments suggest.

[@Joe-xz8wo]

Whats a inersect ?

[@friedchicken1]

to intersect. it's a verb. of two objects, passing through each other

[@Zoandar]

I am using the free Make 2017 program, and it includes Solid Tools.

[@rickharriss]

Just to save your time this only works with the Pro version of Sketchup.

[@regular_goof]

subtract is a pro only function 💩