I have my trim pieces set as sub components in my main component and one end of the trim pieces are cut at a 45 degree angle. Tho top trim piece is cut at both ends at 45 degree angles. How do I adapt these pieces so they are the correct length for different size door. (i.e. If I have an 80" tall do…

I think the easiest way is to insert sub-components of a fixed size, which would contain 45 degree cuts, so changeable pieces would have 90 degrees ends: [2018-02-20_12h55_48] Edges of a join between a fixed size and adjustable sub-components should be hidden in order to display only a 45 degrees …

The only probl;em with that solution is that I want the frame width and thickness to both be changable according to the wishes of the user. So the fized corner still would not work. It would also need to change.

You must ‘chop’ the frame in pieces.: [DC]

[image] trentjperez: So the fized corner still would not work. It would also need to change. Don’t make the corner a fixed size. You still need to make the corners separate from the rest of the frame member. You can see that I’ve kept the miter angle at 45° in this example. [dc] The stile i…

I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. I guess I was expecting it to be a lot more complex for some reason. That should work great. Thanks for the help. ANd the details in the explanation are excellent. Thank you again for taking the time to make the explanation easy to understand.

For a simple frame, it is not much work: [miter] With a rabbet, you must ‘divide’ the component in more groups: [miter1] Best is to draw all divided parts in place and then adjust formulas. If you don’t want to see the lines, you must have even more parts: [miter2] [miter3] file: Miter.skp …

further to this technique, I suggest all the parts be solid and made as groups, thus one can outershell and explode to make a manifold shape of the contents without any residue. This is preferable with beams, joists etc where its likely holes, notches maybe added later

Off course, when you do that, you will loose the ‘Dynamic’ part. You can use exploding and regrouping the geometry ass well, though. Sometimes needs a little cleanup (Solid Inspector,Cleanup, etc)

true it will be a one level component, but you can swap it with the original, it will retain the parent data and replace as per the exploded instance values, and reinstate its dynamic nature

Changing lengths of sub Components that has 45 degree cuts on the ends

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MikeWayzovski February 25, 2018, 9:25am 11

Little ‘DuH’-moment here!!
I never used the last step (eg replacing with the original)…
SketchUp is a parametric builder after all(!?!)

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Changing lengths of sub Components that has 45 degree cuts on the ends

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