Your question: How do you subtract a shape in SketchUp?

How do you separate components in Sketchup?

Make Unique: Sometimes you want to make changes to only one or a few of the instances of a component in your model. In this case, select the instance(s) you want to edit, right-click one of them, and choose Make Unique from the context menu. This option turns the instances you selected into a separate component.

What are solid tools in SketchUp?

Modeling Complex 3D Shapes with the Solid Tools



With SketchUp’s Solid tools, you can create new shapes by combining or cutting one shape with another, making it easy to model an outer shell or joinery.

How do you convert to solid in SketchUp?

For SketchUp to realize something is a solid, you have to make it into either a group or a component first. Another thing: Solid groups and components can’t have other groups and/or components nested inside them. Making a solid doesn’t require any special tools.

How do you separate components?

Mixtures of solids may be separated by differing solubilities of the solids. Components of a solution composed of a non-volatile solid solute and a liquid solvent can be separated by distillation. Mixtures of liquids with reasonably different boiling points can also be separated by distillation.

Can you explode a model in SketchUp?

To break up the object, click to select it and choose Edit > Group > Explode or Edit > Component > Explode.