I drew a rectangle, pulled it up into 3 dimensions and then used the offset tool to make it taper so it goes from 12 inches bigger in both dimensions at the top and tapers to a smaller rectangle at the bottom. I’m trying to radius the corners. I draw a radius at the top and on the bottom at the corners which leaves me with a triangle shape at the corners. I try to push pull that triangle to make it go away but I can’t.
Are you intending to have tapered radiused corners on all four corners?
If I were going to model that I would draw the bottom rectangle with radiused corners, use Push/Pull to extrude it to height and then select just the top face and its edges and use Scale to enlarge it.
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Thank you! I’ll try that.
Doing it that way doesn’t give me a tapered leg as I have it drawn though. If you look at my picture I don’t know why I can’t push that triangular shape from the top all the way down to remove it? When I try it doesn’t follow the taper
What exactly do you want? Are you trying to radius a tapered leg as if you’re running a roundover router bit down it?? What I showed will give you a radius that tapers from top to bottom.
Push/Pull works perpendicular to the starting face. You are drawing your radius perpendicular to the ground, not the side of the leg. If you want a constant radius down the length of the leg, square the roundover arc to the the angle to the long edge of the leg and extrude that down through the leg. See my example here. After setting up one of the radius “cutters” I used Rotate/Copy to copy it around the leg. Then they get extruded with Push/Pull. Then Select the geometry and use Intersect Faces>With Selection and erase what isn’t the leg.
Think of it like modeling the volume of space the router would pass through if you were cutting a real tapered leg.
A little additional info:
Since you are using SketchUp for iPad you could make the “cutter” volumes as solid groups or components. Also make the tapered leg a solid group. Then use Trim or Subtract from the Solid Tools to trim the leg with the cutters.
Either with or without the solid tools, the process of extruding a cutter volume as I showed can also be used with Follow Me. For example I drew a curved path for the L-shaped cutter and used Follow Me instead of Push/Pull. This let me create a stopped roundover on the leg.
I used that same method to do the stopped chamfers on this hayrake table.
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Thank you! I really appreciate your help!