Sketchup – Dado/Tenon on angled rail
Oakenshield
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Hi All: I am new to this forum and new to Sketchup. I have been working on a project that uses rail and stile construction. The rails (in the front view) are trapezoidal instead of rectangular. The rails have dadoes top and bottom to accept a panel and stub tenons on the angled ends to fit into the stiles. It took me forever to get those features in using push-pull because of the angled ends. I ended up with a lot of little leftover wedges that I had to get rid of; often erasing lines and inadvertently opening faces along the way. My guess is that I have approached the dado/tenon creation incorrectly. Is there a push-pull or other tool concept that I am missing that would allow easy creation of these features? Oakenshield
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Hi Oakenshield:
Welcome to Knots.
There are several ways I can think of to approach this in SketchUp. I assume you are actually referring to drawing the mortises for the tenons? One option, which is perhaps the easiest is to draw the tenon on the rail component first. Make sure it is located in the proper place relative to the stile. Then open the rail component for editing, select just the tenon geometry, copy the selected geometry using Ctrl+C, Edit>Copy, etc. Next, open the stile component for editing and click on Edit>Paste in Place. Finally, delete the unneeded face and edges if any and correct the face orientation.
Other possible methods to achieve this are to push in the mortise and then use the Move tool to move the bottom end of the mortise (doable but hardly efficient), Switch to wireframe view and trace the tenon while the stile compnent is open for editing or use the Joint Push/Pull plugin. The method I described first is dead simple and doesn't require anything but native tools.
Hope that helps.
Dave
Hi Dave:
Thanks for the quick reply. I was not aware of the Paste in Place command. I will give that a try tonight. It seems to be just what I was looking for.
On a side note, I have been enjoying working my way through your blog posts. I have found them to be extremely helpful; particularly the videos. I hope FW gets the archive working again so that I can review those as well.
Oakenshield
Paste in Place comes in handy for a lot of things. I think once you try it, you'll find you use it frequently.
Glad you are finding helpful stuff in the blog.
Dave
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