Stuck in wireframe mode

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SketchUp isn't reliable at creating surface intersections. The current version of the surface matching measure has an option to intersect surfaces. Try using this in the OpenStudio application described in this post.

As for what to do in SketchUp when you get an error (stuck in wireframe), you should close the model without saving changes, or if you do save changes, use "SaveAs" so you can leave the original version of the model untouched.

If you run the intersect faces or match faces scripts and then observe that Sketchup gets stuck in wireframe mode, this is a sign that the script has failed. Then typically the window with the log messages will also be empty.

In this case I solved the problem by reloading the original osm file, inspecting the geometry for errors (which sometimes are only visible, if the 3D view is zoomed to a very high degree: e.g. there may be gaps between adjacent walls/ceilings, small missing faces, or superfluous tiny faces, duplicate tiny faces, possibly generated from intersection algorithm).

Finding geometry errors is facilitated, if the geometry is built incrementally, i.e. adding elements step by step and doing surface intersection and matching after every step.

If no geometry errors can be found and the intersection algorithm still fails, it is still possible to create the intersections as well as the surface matching manually. This is facilitated by assigning appropriate surface names to corresponding surfaces (front/back, A/B).

I also had a similar problem. I just simply save openstudio or idf and reload it. After that surfaces are ok.

I recently had a similar issue (stuck in wire frame after using the 'move' command on some fenestration). This link helped me get the offending surfaces removed and was fairly painless. From your comment, it looks like you may have already identified the issue in the Ruby console.

Best, Nick