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[westonherlache]

Hey, I was curious if you or anyone else has any ideas on how to get a component to fill an area. For example, the goal I am looking to achieve is to get a Paver pattern made up of 6 pavers to replicate or repeat itself inside a selected area. I have been using the Path copy. It does a decent job, but I still end up having to put them down in place group by group.

[MickHealey]

Hi Tyson, very useful information, thank you. I will certainly set up templates for 3D printing.
At the end of all these videos, viewers are asked to let you know what else we would like to see in these skill builders. This request has nothing to do with templates, but is something that has bugged me for ages. I hope I have described this well enough. If not, I can send an example, if you can give me somewhere to send that example to.

Okay, so let's say I have drawn a metal plate, with several different sizes and shapes of holes drilled through it. If for some reason (accidentally or deliberately) I delete a face, I need to draw at least part of an edge of the metal plate to get the plane back for the face. However, the holes no longer exist as holes, only as outlines. I assume this is because Sketchup needs to be told that each hole should break the plane. To do this, I need to draw part of the edge of EVERY hole, to instruct Sketchup that this particular outline breaks the plane of the face. Now, I am able to delete the face within the hole outline, and the hole is restored. As you can imagine, this is very tedious if there are numerous holes.
Is there a smart way to do this please? I would love to see a demonstration.