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   RDNZL | Jun 27, 2007 05:14am | #1

   Steve:

   Did you make the leg(s) into a component? If so, double click on one before trying to retaper. If the others are copies, they will taper as well, as a change to one component will be duplicated in all other like components. If (as I recently found out) the taper is not symetrical (all 4 sides tapered equally), you will need to differentiate between pairs, and make seperate components.

   
   

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   Edited 6/26/2007 10:16 pm ET by RDNZL

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   Stoneaxe | Jun 27, 2007 01:40pm | #2

   Hi Steve,

   It's a little difficult to understand exactly what you did from the explanation you give. I assume you made the tapered legs by extruding a square with the push/pull tool and then scaled the end for the taper. What I'm not clear about is why you resquared the legs.....Hhmmm....I think I know what you did. You didn't create a component of the leg 1st and then drew the apron attached to the leg. When you do that it breaks the geometry of the leg where the apron touches. With the extra geometry now on that side it won't allow the leg to taper normally.

   RDNZL may have part of the answer. Creating components of all the pieces of a design is critical to controlling Sketchup geometry. The "stickiness " feature of Sketchup will drive you crazy if you aren't.

   I actually have reverse tapered legs in the mortice and tenon tutotial that I did in the Sketchup tutorials thread and that tutorial shows me adding aprons with the mortice and tenon. Take a look and see if it answers you're question. If not let me know.

   Don't forget to look at the Design, Click, Build blog. You'll find lots of Sketchup info there.

   Regards,

   Bob

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   KingwoodSteve | Jun 27, 2007 05:13pm | #3

   Thanks for the replies.

   Sorry for not being detailed enough but you hit it on the head. The whole leg was tapering and throwing off the dimensions where the apron joined the leg. I did finally get around the problem but it took hours and I knew there was a better way. I was planning to learn about components later down the road but it seems that they are more critical than I thought. Thanks to both for the help and I will check out the thread you mentioned...Steve

   PS. The "sticky" is driving me crazy!!