Sketchup intersect

[mpooley]

Hi
I have been trying to get back into sketchup again and im having trouble understanding the intersect tool?

I have tried viewing the tutorial but its a quicktime movie and it just gives me a black screen with no sound!

I just cannot get two components to intersect in such a way as to leave the intersect lines on both components?

any ideas?

mike

 

[SketchUp Guru]

You can't get it in one go. You need to open the components one at a time, select the geometry, right click and choose Intersect with model. then open the second component and repeat. Here's the result after I opened the cylinder to do the intersect. The next step was to open the box for editing and do the same thing. I made copies of the components so the changes would be evident when they happened.

And after the second run.

 

[mpooley]

Thank you Dave I had a play and i think i understand it now.

although to be honest i thought id tried doing that before and it didnt work ? lol

BTW did you have any ideas about my problem with latitude and longitude in another thread?

mike

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Sorry Mike. No joy yet on that problem. I'll keep trying.