Q:

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? 

A:

Definitely you have to perform substract operation. 
Take a look here
Extrude text and then substract it from the object to etch in.