English Garden Bench.skp (553.7 KB)
nice bench. whats the problem? People on this forum are quite good with 3d but lack in reading minds.
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I see a couple of issues but I’m wondering exactly what you need help with.
By the way, you should update your profile. It says you are using " Skethcup 8" but you must be using SketchUp 2015 Pro now.
Please explain your problem in future rather than making us guess.
Overall it looks pretty good. If you created this yourself, you can’t need all that much help!
I see some reversed faces. You have to be in the edit context of the component to fix them, but then it’s just right-click and either reverse faces or orient faces.
You haven’t yet created mortises to match the tenons. Most books/tutorials about woodworking with SketchUp cover this topic, so it should be easy for you to find instructions. Various authors show different techniques, so look at as many as you can find and choose the one you understand best.
The left arm and leg assembly is ok, but the end of the arm on the right one is beveled wrong. I’d delete the existing right one, make the left one a component, move a copy to the right, and flip along the red axis.
What else is on your mind?
The right arm was copied from the left but it was rotated so its bottom face is up instead of flipping as @slbaumgartner suggested. The right side bracket under the front of the seat was also rotated instead of flipped.
There are some mortises but I think there are some missing. There are also some alignment issues and some unneeded edges.
Yeah, on a closer look, the leg braces and seat rail are slightly misaligned from the leg posts. Use the move tool to correct them.
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There are places in the legs where the mortises you have made so far overlap each other. This is a basic design matter independent of SketchUp: you need to decide which tenon will get trimmed off to clear the other one and where there will or will not be remaining material if two mortises meet. There are also some spurious outlines around mortises, probably remnants from an intersect operation, that need to be cleaned up.
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I’d just like to point out the depth of the replies, imagine what they would be like if you had actually articulated your problem.Very interesting that this post has been flagged by users as inappropriate while at the same time received 4 likes from people I respect.
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I’ve seen a lot of answers that are proof of the opposite.
No, we just know how and when to invoke the Omega 13.
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Hi,
Your reply is one of the few that makes sense. I put this together from orthographic drawings, each part separated by text that was impossible to visualize and spot mistakes. Putting it together using Sketchup is like building it and allows one to spot mistakes, like the tenon’s that you pointed out, before cutting one single piece of wood. No scrap!
Made an armrest, but no mirror like Autocad, so copied and rotated. Not sure of best way to do this because arms have lines on them that doesn’t seem correct.
Although it looks good enough to make in wood, I want to improve my Sketchup skills and I know something is out of alignment because side cross braces sink into upright even though the dimensions are the same, copied components.
Thanks for your feedback
Hi,
Your reply is one of the few that makes sense. I put this together from orthographic drawings, each part separated by text that was impossible to visualize and spot mistakes. Putting it together using Sketchup is like building it and allows one to spot mistakes, like the tenon’s that you pointed out, before cutting one single piece of wood. No scrap!
Made an armrest, but no mirror like Autocad, so copied and rotated. Not sure of best way to do this because arms have lines on them that doesn’t seem correct.
Although it looks good enough to make in wood, I want to improve my Sketchup skills and I know something is out of alignment because on one side the cross braces sink into upright even though the dimensions are the same on both sides, copied components.
Thanks for your feedback
I find the copy component, then rotate leads to problems. In Autocad I used mirror which was brilliant, but haven’t found an easy way to make left and right complex components. Is copy component and move, then rotate the only way?
You obviously know Sketchup well
Jeff
In SketchUp, the Flip Along commands are used for mirroring.
You can move the side stretcher to place it correctly but if they are correct on one side, copy the entire side assembly, flip it along the red direction to make a mirrored copy and you’re all set.
See my previous response.
Hi
I’d like to thank everyone for their comments… I put this bench together from orthographic drawings, each part separated by text that was impossible to visualize and spot mistakes. Putting it together using Sketchup is like building it and allows one to spot mistakes, like the tenon’s that you pointed out, before cutting one single piece of wood. No scrap!
Made an armrest, but no mirror like Autocad, so copied and rotated. Not sure of best way to do this because arms have lines on them that doesn’t seem correct. In other word, parts not the same.
Although it looks good enough to make in wood, I want to improve my Sketchup skills and I know something is out of alignment because on one side the cross braces sink into upright even though the dimensions are the same on both sides, copied components, then moved, but tenon on wrong side and all sorts of problems.
Thanks for your feedback
You’ve posted essentially the same thing three times in this forum. You really don’t need to do that. Once is enough.
And I’ve already responded to your comment about mirroring components.
