well I found two parts where it wasn't quite water tight so that answers my own question- it WAS water tight at one point but it seems SketchUp dropped those surfaces at some point- once filled then Solid Inspector WAS able to fix the errors remaining
I'm still a but nonplussed on how the remaining errors formed? Internal face errors are ones inside the model? Is this something common to SketchUp or is it typical with all 3d programs?
Edit- well seeing how Solid Inspector fixes the models Ive figured out that it is indeed those internal walls- a solid wouldn't have any obviously just one big vast space that is 'filled'?
Last edited: Nov 20, 2015