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1. 
   saschafer | Apr 18, 2010 04:48pm | #1

   I dunno, Dave. Those look an awful lot like machine-cut dovetails to me. How can I be sure you didn't use a jig? ;-)

   -Steve

2. 
   DaveRichards | Apr 18, 2010 05:16pm | #2

   Perhaps I should have spaced them a little less evenly and made them all different angles and left gaps. Then you'd know that I hand cut them. I wanted to make them look more like ones you cut by hand. You know, all the same angle and tightly fitted. ;)

3. 
   FrankE | May 13, 2011 07:03pm | #3

   Dave, I really appreciate your tutorials. I am new to Sketchup, and Have some questions about the dovetail video. It is not clear to me how you started out, to create the components to begin with. Do the components, the board, include the ends? Do the ends of the two boards occupy the same space? Thank you.
   Frank

4. 
   DaveRichards | May 13, 2011 08:45pm | #4

   Hi Frank,

   Each 'board' that makes up the drawer is a component. They are drawn to the full dimensions required for the board and they do overlap. The sides are instances (copies) of the same component but one is flipped (mirrored) relative to the other.

   Ignoring the grooves for the bottom and the rabbets on the edges of the front, the entire board has six faces just as the real wooden ones would have.

   I hope that makes sense.

5. 
   FrankE | May 21, 2011 03:38pm | #5

   I am still having trouble doing the tutorial. When I draw the half pin outside the component, I can draw the lower line at an angle, but when I try to draw the top line at an angle, it does not work. I put a guide line at the edge of the side board (or the end of the back board). Then when I try to rotate the guide line by clicking at the intersection of that guide line with the other guide line, it wants to rotate the back board component rather than the guide line. I tried clicking outside of the model to unselect everything; the edit menu option to close component/group is grayed out, so I cannot click it. But everything I do with the rotate tool selects (makes blue) either the side component or the back component. It is clear that I am doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. Thank you.

   FrankE

6. 
   DaveRichards | May 21, 2011 03:54pm | #6

   Frank, when I put the angled guideline in, I use the yellow Protractor tool instead of putting in a guideline with the Tape Measure and then rotating it. Give that a try and see how that goes for you.

   Dave