5 Ways to CUT HOLES AND CREATE OPENINGS in your SketchUp Models

In this video, learn 5 ways in SketchUp to cut holes and create openings in your geometry!
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#1 - Using the Push Pull tool
Obviously simply drawing a shape on your flat objects and push/pulling it to the back to automatically delete the face is the easiest. When possible, utilize this as much as possible, as it’s the simplest. However, when you start doing things with curved surfaces or surfaces that intersect, you can start running into problems.
#2 - Using intersect with model
While the first option is the easiest, sometimes (like in the case of curved surfaces), the push/pull tool simply won’t work. With this method, intersect a pair of shapes, then right click and select intersect with model. This will create edges where your geometry intersects. Then simply delete out the remaining geometry!
#3 - Creating a Cut Component
Using the component tools, you can create a component that cuts a hole in whatever face that it’s resting in. Simply draw a rectangle on a face, double click to select it and its edges, then right click to make a component. You can make it a component that locks to faces on a specific axis, or to any geometry it touches. Then check the box for cut opening and create your component. However, the drawback to this is that this tool only works in individual faces, not faces with any depth
#4 - Use the extension Double Cut
Mindsight Studios has an extension that can cut holes in walls with multiple faces, so you could cut an opening in a wall with thickness using this extension. It basically almost just runs in the background, and when you create a cut component with depth, allows you to cut openings in multiple faces.
#5 - Use Solid Tools’ subtract function
Solid tools is a set of tools that gets included with the pro version of SketchUp - it contains a number of tools designed to help you with creating interactions with solid geometry. However, the tool that we’re interested in is the subtract tool, which allows you to delete out geometry wherever the two pieces of geometry intersect.
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[@IceyDivine]

you honestly hit it on the nail with what i was looking for when it comes to opening the sink area thank you !!!!

[@pdod666]

Great tutorial Justin! Thanks. The cross drag selection in the double wall window example was very useful!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks Patrick! Glad you found it helpful!

[@stooobin]

Great job, I learned some new things and re learned some old things!

[@dennisrayon8171]

Great Tutorials, been doing sketchup in business for 11 years, easy to get stuck into your known rut. You help introduce new things to add to my technique. Thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad I could be of service :)

[@Synthwave89]

You are an absolute lifesaver. I was trying to push through a rounded object and it would not cut through the rounded part, but using Intersect Faces With Model worked perfectly. Thank you so much Justin.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@ozric4122]

OMG that was so simple, your videos are invaluable for beginners like me.

[@jeanemmanuelfleurima9532]

Thank you for those tips, your videos are really amazing.

[@mycats7321]

Thank you! This will help when I am trying to map out DWV system in walls & floors. I'm hoping it may also help with making sinks.

[@SinhaFps]

Thank you, man! You're helping me a lot!

[@rodrigo-vl7bi]

8 years using sketchup, and i just happen to learn this, thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Well now you know! :)

[@incrastic6437]

Gratis video. It helped me a lot. Thanks.

[@luannguyen078]

the trick with Push and Pull is awesome. thanks you !

[@sakurabat1912]

Super helpful contents! thank you

[@spacecreative386]

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[@kaanaslim]

Thank you so much! Very helpfull video, it saved me days of work.

[@MrWLJ71]

Great Work Justin, thank you

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks Will!

[@jeffwood8432]

Great information. Thank you.

[@jameschang7274]

As always! Another great Tut!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much! Glad you liked it!

[@secretdad544]

Thanks. In every respect your video was excellent and I thank you for making it.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

If you're an absolute beginner, you need to start with an absolute beginner tutorial. Practically, I cannot start with the absolute basics in every video because every video would be hours long. I recommend starting here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/eIuQpoOAgd2UrJI

[@paulkirk5260]

Awesome explanation. Thanks mate

[@phil5569]

Very cool stuff!

[@pedros3]

Great lessons, very efficient and rich.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thank you! :)

[@openhand7502]

Great video, as usual Justin. I've been struggling with this and now I'll watch this vid at least 4 more times to learn it all. Very concise! Thank you!

[@archmohammed6252]

you are an amazing man .. thanks for your teaching us Sketch up

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@saklvichhea]

THE BEST TIP & TRICK !

[@johngrunewald6616]

How did you know that I was just trying to cut windows into a curved wall? I especially appreciated that you were clear about how to inference the back face of the object being cut. A simple, clear and well-presented explanation. Thanks again.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - glad it was helpful John!

[@nicole1528]

Brilliant, thank you so much

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad it helped!

[@brendapereda8841]

Awesome video! it helped me a lot!

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Glad it helped!

[@selimbatuhan4959]

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[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much! Glad you're finding it helpful! :)

[@meditationmusic5180]

Cheers man!

[@dimensions7834]

I went through 5 other tutorials before I came across yours that would show me how to cut a hole through a shipping container! Thank you for such good instruction too!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome! Glad it helped you solve your problem!

[@albiologytamil]

Great video. i have learned a lot. thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome!

[@rubenaguilar7294]

Beautiful work congragulations

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks very much!

[@robertfarrell7041]

Gave me some great help.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks Robert!

[@dal2888859]

Thanks for your videos, I really enjoy them. I'm modelling a shop build to a very high detail with individual studs, windows, joists, plywood, even vapor barriers. I've got the model framed out and now want to add the siding but I'm not finding a good way to delete the siding inside of my windows and doors without painstakingly drawing lines on the insides of these openings and push/pulling the geometry until it disappears. I have curved windows in my design and this way is proving to be too time consuming. Solid tools do not seem to help here since my framing is grouped already. Can you offer any suggestions whether from videos you've previously done or something else I can try? Thanks

[@jhuniorrdc]

The last way.. was very useful!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

It's very easy as long as you're dealing with solids! Thanks!

[@tildamascall9101]

just found double cut in the extension warehouse, free!

[@jabulani400]

this video very helped me.

[@dharmagraphics-architects7363]

Justin classes are finished at UDC. I'm happy to keep going with your tutorials.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Awesome - hope they keep helping out! :)

[@nittearchitecture3605]

Helped a lot

[@ankitsitar]

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[@happyhour4348]

Thank you smch... From Philippines

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@kevinpoessy9566]

man I fu**ing love you! Thanks for the help!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad I could help!

[@vallinorean-akl]

Thanks so much for this. Some of the obvious things are quite difficult for n00bs like me to figure out.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Glad you liked it! :)

[@falconlara]

Good one; solid tools is a time saver.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Yep - I hadn't done much with it before, but it was super easy to use. Will probably be doing more with it in the future. Thanks!

[@pradipsuthar9947]

Doing excellent bro

[@Thesketchupessentials]

👍

[@mattwcorey]

Thank you.

[@akshayap9697]

Thankyou 😊

[@rudy5251]

ground in just 17 minutes, amazing.

[@will.2274]

Thank you

[@crystalxx9625]

Thank you very much for your videos they are indeed very helpful and informative! I am a beginner in using SketchUp and I am facing a problem with the first technique I push the face to the edge of the wall but it doesn't end up cutting for me for some reason, may anyone inform me what is the problem is?

[@pandurangashilpi3608]

sir you great guru .

[@howard6798]

Yes...this is a 5 year old video...but I still found it useful!

[@roberthermoso3436]

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[@jongunn1304]

your a good guy!!!!!

[@pmfinverr335]

Thank

[@v.i.c2447]

Nice tutorial, i just cracked soft soft ;)

[@kodokraksasa6564]

1. Push pull backwards 2. You cant push pull curved surfaces > use intersect faces with model > and delete the part you don't want 3. Cut components > create shape on a face > create component > glue to any + cut opening > create > make a copy of the component > model and extrude the component > component is automatically extruded 4. Doublecut extension 5. Use solid tools > subtract

[@safderali7661]

Good work dear keep it up

[@Thesketchupessentials]

👍

[@josemanan5727]

I will try to reverse the inner face of the wall, if the cutting windows computes it as a second plane to cut I let u know. Maybe :) thanks. I will try it. I did not know the cut component options

[@XCBen]

Hey Justin, can you please guide me to one of your videos on how to cut a model. I am wanting to cut up a modeled tile plane to fit into a small bathroom floor. Thanks in advance

[@Musta_fa94]

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[@Thesketchupessentials]

I understood you perfectly! Thanks for watching!

[@Thewarchaserss]

A side note: I don't know if he said it, but you need to explode the components first, if you have grouped it, before you can push/pull through an object. Took me a little while to figure out.

[@mohamedsahraoui2733]

great thank's a lot ^-^

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Thanks for watching!

[@stellabarison495]

Hi Justin for some reason I am trying to pen a hole for a window in a diagonal wall and just can't any thoughts, thank you Stella

[@yellow8design735]

Hi there, I'm trying to use the vector push pull, but it doesn't give me any way to open up additional options to select what I'm hoping too? This is in sketchup pro2020. Thanks! Love your work!

[@yingyihu4016]

Hello Justin, I would like to know how to do multiple cut on geometry? It turns to model every time after I did one cut.

[@bropitt]

could you calculate the area of the cut during or along side the last process?

[@crumblequakegaming]

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[@Thesketchupessentials]

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[@tiagocarvalho386]

respect

[@alviindoorfishfarm4443]

Great......!!!!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

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[@openhand7502]

I'm following along and notice when trying to create a window component that cuts out when you put it on a face, it doesn't work when the face is a group? So if I'm working on a model of a house, for example and don't care about wall thickness, I have to explode the group that contains the wall I want a window on?

[@arnoldferrera1185]

thanks

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Welcome!

[@lakimakromedia]

to work this inttersection i need first to make model/group for this whati created [cylinder] than it works, and before deleting not necesary element wirst explode model ... not earlier.

[@transylvanianite3391]

in the 3D warehouse models I couldn't find any holes to cut out. Are the models from 3D warehouse possible for cutting out holes after they are downloaded in Sketchup with the pushpull or other tool from the menu to get an opening for a doorway or window opening?

[@southhillfarm2795]

Note!! if a piece is grouped, the piece has to be in edit group mode first for this to work.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I suppose that depends on which of the methods you're using...

[@vincebaker3384]

Great video will all of these examples of ways to cut holes that you showed work in sketch up version 2016 I noticed you're using version 2018. I can't afford to upgrade every time they come out with a new version I don't have the money or the need to do so

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I believe they all should work in 2016 as well, assuming that 2016 Pro came with solid tools (I thought that it did, but I'm not sure). I'm not 100% sure if DoubleCut is 2016 compatible, so that would be the big question mark for me. Thanks!

[@pintokitkat]

Bool2 gives you the Boolean operations for a few dollars rather than having to pay for the Pro version of sketchup. It works flawlessly in my experience.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

That's a good point - I should have mentioned that - thanks Andy!

[@denispanarin]

Hi. Thank you for your video. There is one moment I didn`t get. At 2:32 when you select model it`s a group, and at 2:33 ooop and it`s not a group. Took some time for me to figure it out.

[@Bytesmiths]

Nice! Do you have a simple way to take an image with transparency, and turn it into a 3D with the transparent sections cut out? I've got an expanded metal image that I want to turn into a model with holes in it. Thanks!

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Not really - most likely you'd just want to trace over it to create the face.

[@Bytesmiths]

@@Thesketchupessentials KZbin really needs an "I really appreciate the reply, but I don't like the reality of it." :-( I'm trying to make an image of expanded metal print properly on a 3D printer. The though of tracing over thousands of holes is daunting!

[@stipkafle4642]

i want to cut a hole in a wall for window ,did same as you suggested but instead of a whole I just get a enclosed line which I further push becomes a box but no hole

[@davidoreskovic4029]

Hi there, i just wanted to ask how would you cut out a non standard opening/shape from a solid? Say for example a keyhole.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Why wouldn't these methods work? It's still cutting a hole with a profile in 3D...

[@Goffyuno]

Cut into solids is known a boolean operation in many 3D modeling apps.

[@Sweetstepz3]

i have been trying for over an hour now to use intersect faces with a kohler sink. but sketchup keeps crashing. what am i doing wrong?

[@experto-en-nada]

What's the name of the tool that you used to make the terrain as a solid?

[@syedzakir1081]

Hi, Consider a Wall 0.3 m thick and tilted or rotated to X and Y axis. Then I am facing for how to cut. Most clips are shown with respect to x y axis but could you please create or advise for how to cut in such a situation

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Do these methods not work for you when your object is along a different axis?

[@tomdainguyen]

if we make group for an object , how can we use PUSH to cut ?

[@zigggyyyc7342]

can you subtract a solid object from multiple solid objects?

[@danielbaer7308]

my push pull tool as an offset setting on it? how do I get rid of/change this?

[@Jack2thecore]

Bercause the delete button wasn't invented yet.. I find it mind boggling how difficult sketchup has made EVERYTHING.

[@88rusnella88]

i think i love you

[@xaam.9076]

Try to see soft design , composing and setuping as three seperate tNice tutorialngs to focus on and it might will make more sense

[@rusim2505]

Suppose I have, say, a hippy sign black and while JPG file and I wanna project that onto a surface and then make cutouts? How would I do that? How do I take a ready patterns from a JPG and use that instead of having to draw in every single line and curve by means of a pen tool in Sketchup? Thank you! :-)

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Theoretically there are some extensions out there that can do this, though I haven't tested any of them, so I'm not sure I'm going to be very helpful on this one...sorry...

[@sentientstill]

how can i cut windows and doors in a curved wall made of separate layers and bricks (bags)? i am designing an earthbag house, with curved walls and layers of bags represented in the sketchup design... and i want to be able to make doors and windows that can be adjusted, without having to do the tedious work of redoing every line if i want to make or move a window/door... there must be a way to do this... anybody know? thanks for sharing the helpful info/videos

[@hazeno1thomas]

Thanks but about the subtract function i couldn't do what you did cause it was saying that my cube wasn't a solid but why? Thanks if you can help 😊

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Your model either has a hole or an internal face

[@dallybarduol1297]

How you can create SOLED objects. Thanks

[@mauriziofaedda7061]

I have some problems to get an opening in my inside and outside wall when they are all placed in a separate layer but are grouped, I want to have control over my layers. How should something be done and is this possible?

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Does option 2 - Intersect with face - not work?

[@kon_radar]

10:58 I'm wondering if it's possible to add a pool inside a terrain without cutting holes in the terrain, so that I can reposition this pool easily. My idea would be to add an object mask inside the pool component or something similar.

[@Thesketchupessentials]

I'd just add a grouped plane with a water material applied to it that you can move around to set the water height

[@dallybarduol1297]

How can you create SOLED objects. Thanks.

[@ecdesignbymanjulasingh988]

Can u tell me if the wall is in grp or component can we cut the wall coz I’m jst started learning sketchup soo plz help me

[@Thesketchupessentials]

Did you test it out?