Good morning everyone, I have modeled a simple cabinet carcuss with two raised panel in frame doors. I am trying to draw the cove detail on the door panel. I have tried several times drawing a tangent curve profile to be used with the follow me tool but I have not had any success. I’ve reviewed several online videos on the topic but have not found the exact scenario I’m looking for.
I am new to SketchUp and am currently using a trial download of SketchUp pro 2019.
Are you going to be building these doors from scratch or are you only wanting to show them.
Would a live demo help?
If you don’t need to show the individual parts, I would draw a cross section of the door stile and panel with the cove and use Follow Me. around a rectangular path.
You’ve made matters somewhat harder than necessary by drawing the entire pair of doors as a single component. I’d suggest modeling each real-life board as a separate component (with use of instancing and flipping for matching but reversed). That will prevent edges or faces from one board from interfering when you edit another one.
Your model doesn’t include an example of the sort of cove detail you want, but assuming the shape itself isn’t problematic I don’t see why follow-me wouldn’t work.
I see that @DaveR has volunteered a live demo, so you are in good hands!
At this point i am trying accurately model an existing cabinet. Next step would be to actually build the cabinet and doors. I guess first things first, if I cant draw /model it I wont be able to build it.
I am new to 3D modeling so I may not even be asking the right questions.
That makes sense, I could create another component called door. I dont know how to create the profile I want on the raised panel. I will draw the profile and attach
You should be able to incorporate that curve into the door panel as Steve showed or draw the panel by itself with that cove using a rectangular path and a section for the profile.
That’s awesome Steve! Your drawing across the right stile to extend the lower rail in order to draw the concave profile that cuts into the face of the panel?
Thank you Dave, I think I understand what your suggesting. I am going try Steves’ approach and then duplicate another single door component using your suggestion.
If I were drawing the door to build would you suggest that I create individual components for panel, stile and rail?
Steve, what is the tool selection sequence after you have drawn the arc. it looks like your selecting the panel face, then selecting the follow me tool and then clicking on the profile to extrude. I’m really sorry but I’m not able to get the follow me tool to work. I am missing something really simple.
Good morning Dave, This is incredibly generous of you. Having these examples is really helping me to learn the software. I’m putting a lot of time into modeling, reading forum posts, and watching sketchup videos.
Thank you so much,
Have a great weekend,
Let me know when your headed to Richfield, WI. We can have that beer.