How to create a solid block on sketchup?

[pb_bzh]

Hello,

I know create a face and make a shape but it is hollow.
How should we do to create a full volume? Is this posiible?

Thank you

Patrick

[Jonathan Winterflood]

Hi,
No, you cannot create full volumes, but if your hollow shapes are manifold, SketchUp Pro can perform boolean operations on them as if they were solid objects.

HTH,
Jonathan

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I think the confusion is in terminology...
Sketchup is not a solid-modeler.
You can make a cube with 6 faces that looks solid and is regarded as
Sketchup as 'solid' ["manifold"] and it will return a volume.
If you add an internal 'partition' it is no longer seen as a 'solid'.
It you want a truly 'solid' form that is hollow it needs two sets of
faces to make a 'shell' - just as if it were a real 3d object which
would have some thickness to its structure - no matter how thin: a
Sketchup 'face' has zero thickness but two faces 'back-to-back' and
say 5mm apart are equivalent to a 'real' sheet of material....


On Jan 29, 11:13 am, Jonathan Winterflood

<jonathan.winterfl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> No, you cannot create full volumes, but if your hollow shapes are manifold,
> SketchUp Pro can perform boolean operations on them as if they were solid
> objects.
>
> HTH,
> Jonathan
>
> On Jan 29, 2011 3:51 AM, "pb_bzh" <ad...@pbbzh.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know create a face and make a shape but it is hollow.
> How should we do to create a full volume? Is this posiible?
>
> Thank you
>
> Patrick
>
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