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Step 5: A Small Six-Board Chest
June 23, 2016

The Front and Back captures the Till Front and Bottom with a 3/16-in. shallow dado and groove. With the Front still hidden, select the Back for editing and then click…
Unfolding a Pattern
June 19, 2016

Way back, early in the life of Design. Click. Build. a reader asked me how to create a pattern for the joint between two pipes, one of which is angled…
Step 4: A Small Six-Board Chest
June 8, 2016

This is Step 4 of a continuing series - Creating Till Components To open access for making the Till components, right click on the Front and Back and choose Hide from…
Symmetry in Action
June 2, 2016

Lately I've been working hard on a presentation for the upcoming 3D Basecamp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. I'll be presenting some ideas I've collected over the years about how to…
Step 3 – Small Six Board Chest
May 19, 2016

In this Step the chest bottom, front and back are created. Use the Line or Rectangle Tool to create an edge face for the Bottom. Double click on the rectangle,…
Tambour Doors in SketchUp
May 18, 2016

In our house, at the end of the hallway to the bedrooms there's this funny little space that's hard to use. It's had this flat pack book shelf there for…
Step 2 – Small Six-board Chest
May 4, 2016

This is the second step in creating the model of the Small Six-board Chest. I've shown below the final result after about 10 steps. Step 2 the image below shows the scanned…
Printing From SketchUp
April 30, 2016

In the last few weeks I've answered questions from a number of SketchUp users related to printing their drawings. These questions seem to fall into two basic categories. The first…
Small Six-board Chest in Steps
April 18, 2016

In the next several weeks, in a sequence of Steps, I will show a process in SketchUp for making a Period piece of furniture. See Figure 1. I've selected a…
A Baseball Bat From Offsets
April 17, 2016

A reader wrote to me for some help in making a pattern to guide him in making a replica of a baseball bat owned by his father. He had measured…

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