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Topic: Sometimes I hate sketchup. Help with this part?

Pushing/ pulling parts in sketchup can drive a person insane!  I've spent several hours on this and I just can't get it.  Can anyone figure out how to delete the middle portion between the clamp halves?  This is where there is a cylinder between the two parts (circled).  Obviously, I pushed a circle thru there to make the hole but when I deleted the wedge portion, it left what used to be a hollow hole as a solid, which makes no sense to me.  Does anyone know why it does this or how to prevent it?

http://i.imgur.com/9T0l50m.png

FYI, it is a bearing holder that will be used to hold a bearing that holds an 8mm rod that will be a Y-axis drive shaft.  The holes are enlarged so that it can be slightly adjustable on the extrusion to allow it to adjust to the precise position of the shaft without bending.

Thanks.  My next long term project is to learn OpenSCAD so that I can make parts like this parametric.

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Re: Sometimes I hate sketchup. Help with this part?

Don't really know the answer, but can't you just throw a new cutting extrude down through the slot to clean it out?

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Re: Sometimes I hate sketchup. Help with this part?

I can fix that in about 30 seconds if I was near my PC which I am not.
You should be able to just erase that part and then clean up the circle on each face.
If you don't get it by tomorrow send me the file and I'll take a crack at it.

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Re: Sometimes I hate sketchup. Help with this part?

My guess is you need to draw 2 circles...one on each solid section; and drag them trough the separate halves...as dragging it through empty space creates a solid...

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Re: Sometimes I hate sketchup. Help with this part?

IronMan wrote:

My guess is you need to draw 2 circles...one on each solid section; and drag them trough the separate halves...as dragging it through empty space creates a solid...

Bingo!!!

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Re: Sometimes I hate sketchup. Help with this part?

IronMan wrote:

Don't really know the answer, but can't you just throw a new cutting extrude down through the slot to clean it out?

No, that leaves a solid surface on the interior parts of the clamp.

My guess is you need to draw 2 circles...one on each solid section; and drag them trough the separate halves...as dragging it through empty space creates a solid...

That would work, but I then have to go thru and undo a bunch of steps.  I would like to find a way to avoid this if possible.  It would seem to me that if something is clearly being used as cutting or subtraction tool, it should not just randomly switch as it moves to a different area.

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Re: Sometimes I hate sketchup. Help with this part?

Done!

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