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This isn't related to this article but I was wondering if you could tell me the best way to draw an arc that is asymmetrical or has a changing radius. The arc tool always seems to draw an arc that is part of a perfect circle and I want to be able to draw "french curves."

I scaled it up so that I could do the intersection and after I did the intersection and cleaned up the waste I did not think that it needed to be scaled up any more so I tried scale it back down. I did click on edit component to edit it, but I was fiddling around with it for quite some time trying to get things to work so I might have done something I shouldn't have. If you give me your email address(I can't seem to find it on the website) or tell me where to find it I would love to email the file to you.
Thanks again.

Thanks for the advice it helped me greatly. Now I'm trying to use the same idea to make a mortise in my newly curved face and everything looks great in x-ray mode but when I put it back to shaded there's only a square on the face where the hole should be. It's as if I need to erase the face inside the square to see the mortise. (but I tried that and it didn't work). Also I followed the advice about scaling up by 100 but then when I scaled back down I seemed to have a lot of trouble zooming as fast as usual and the box that surounds the component stayed the scaled up size. I hope you can make sense of everything I'm trying to say! Thanks again

So after playing around for a bit I figured out what I was doing wrong and was able to use the intersect with model function. After I intersected it though I had to explode the component so that I could clear the waste away without erasing things I didn't want to. Also the face that I ended up with turned a blue color. I am just wondering if that is signifying that something is wrong or if everything is ok. Everything seems ok but I guess I'm just looking for conformation that It's done right and it won't cause me problems later.

Hi Tim
I am brand new to sketchup but I have used autocad so I'm catching on ok. However I have a similar problem where I want to be able to "push/Pull" on a curved face but can't. So the logical step is to intersect and subtract, but the intersect is unavailable for me. Is that because I don't have the sketchup pro? Is there another way to get around it?