Pushing Text into surface - Google Sketchup In Google Sketchup, I have text on a surface that I'd like to push / pull so that the text is etched into, rather than placed upon the surface.  I can't seem to figure this out, the text disappears when I try to push it into the surface and I'm not quite sure what else to try.  Any advice?
Definitely you have to perform substract operation.
Take a look here

Extrude text and then substract it from the object to etch in.