How to cut a leg at an angle

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This is a very simple question (I think). I have a single parallelepiped that I want to cut at angle, i.e. remove the last 10% at an angle, as in a splayed bench leg. How to do this? I have read 5 descriptions of how to do this. None of them work for me. (To be clear, I am not a dummy (AFAIK), I was a member of the Adobe Illustrator team for years so I know drawing tools but this little trick in Sketchup escapes me).

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OK, here is more. Experiment1.skp (18.1 KB). All I want to do is cut the bottom off the leg at an angle. Once I’ve got that I am good to go, The rest of Sketchup I get ( though I am sure there will be other gotchas).
(BTW, if you have any Illustrator questions, please feel free :slight_smile:

Add: I am using Sketchup 17. I am hesitant to upgrade to a newer version before I am sure it will be useful.

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I know many people who have worked with Sketchup for more than a decade that wouldn’t dare say that in public.

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Both of these solutions ALMOST work. The problem I run into with both of these solutions is that when I delete the “unneeded” parts it deletes one or two other faces as well in the parts I DO want. Not sure how to avoid this.

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Time here is well spent.
https://learn.sketchup.com/

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Doh! This is the same old thing. Yes, your explanation (especially Box) is completely correct. EXCEPT you skipped the part about deleting the parts with the push/pull tool! Eraser doesn’t work. Once I noticed that in the video, voila! It worked. No blame here. I have written 3012 tutorials (at Adobe and Readium) and somebody always pointed out that I had left out a step… :slight_smile:

Thanks for all your help.

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No offense, but no, that is “not how it works”. In tutorials you have be really clear at every step. So there was an implicit step of “Select the Push/Pull too” that I somehow missed. Maybe it as there and I missed it.
Anyway, thanks for all your help.

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See this SU file for idea.

Parallelepiped cut at an angle.skp (93.1 KB)

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That’s an excellent demonstration. Wish I had seen it 2 days ago. Thanks

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@Box, you’re right. That was overweening… :slight_smile: