I am working my way thru Tim Killen’s e-book "Sketchup guide for woodworkers. Pages 33 & 34 (Chapter 7) explain how to takes a saved ogee drawing component and use it to shape the front skirt on a magazine rack. The written instructions in the text don’t match the illustration comments and no matter what I do, I can’t get the result that Tim does. He calls this chapter precision drawing. First the saved ogee component is placed in the drawing and rotated, the positioned on a guide line. The u use move/copy, copy the shape, flip along red and move it to the other guide line. Here, I rotated the shape but the book doesn’t say to do that. Now u need to make the ogee components part of the front skirt component. To do that u have to explode or unmake them as separate components then make a new combined component. I right click and explode the ogee components but when I right click the skirt component, explode is grayed out and the rest of the procedure doesn’t woork for me. If any has done this procedure, would u kindly help me thru it.
Could you share the SKP file as you’ve got it? If you don’t want to share it publicly, you can send it in a PM.
Here is the file Dave. I hope I am doing the attachment right.
I am new 2 the forum.
Wayne the WoodworkerMag Rack 5.skp (40.4 KB)
You did it right, Wayne.
I’ll look at your file.
In the skp you uiploaded, the front skirt hasn’t been made into a component yet, and that may be throwing you off the sequence!
Got it.
Check your private messages. Click on the purple W in the upper right corner of the screen.
I don’t know how Tim’s process works for this exactly or whether the skirt not being a component affects it but with what we’re starting with; the profile component and the loose geometry for the skirt, here’s a process that works fine.
Thank u Dave.
Your method does indeed work.
God bless guys like u that help us idiots get started.
Wayne the Woodworker