SKetchup - total novice question
Posted: 24 May 2015, 14:26
I try and use sketch up so rarely that everything I try to do seems very difficult just as if some one forgot what the A in CAD stands for.
I presume the rest of the users can't be wrong and so it must be me!
Hopefully that sets the scene.
Today's effort is to try and draw rail and stile frames (not even trying the field panels yet!)
I've got the section of the stock drawn and using push/pull have made a length of the stuff into a component
I duplicated it spun it round and separated the two by an arbitrary distance. so I have two parallel stiles.
then I drew a second plane joining the two ends and push/pulled that to the rail width, made that a component too. Then I duplicated that to create a second rail and moved that into place.
So far so good but now I want to change the lengths of the rails and stiles whilst keeping the profile constant.
I just can't find a way to do that without a 90% redraw going back to my embryo section. As I was drawing I could set the dimension by typing in sizes. What I think I need to do is select a previously drawn line and tell it to become x mm long. I've found dynamic components/options but it tells me I don't have any options. May that is not the right thing to use.
There has got to be a way..........
This is what I have so far
I know the rails don't have a rebate in them - just use your imagination - getting that right is in my too hard pile at the moment. Neither do they have the 15 degree chamfer as on the rails but life is too short!
HELP!
Bob
I presume the rest of the users can't be wrong and so it must be me!
Hopefully that sets the scene.
Today's effort is to try and draw rail and stile frames (not even trying the field panels yet!)
I've got the section of the stock drawn and using push/pull have made a length of the stuff into a component
I duplicated it spun it round and separated the two by an arbitrary distance. so I have two parallel stiles.
then I drew a second plane joining the two ends and push/pulled that to the rail width, made that a component too. Then I duplicated that to create a second rail and moved that into place.
So far so good but now I want to change the lengths of the rails and stiles whilst keeping the profile constant.
I just can't find a way to do that without a 90% redraw going back to my embryo section. As I was drawing I could set the dimension by typing in sizes. What I think I need to do is select a previously drawn line and tell it to become x mm long. I've found dynamic components/options but it tells me I don't have any options. May that is not the right thing to use.
There has got to be a way..........
This is what I have so far
I know the rails don't have a rebate in them - just use your imagination - getting that right is in my too hard pile at the moment. Neither do they have the 15 degree chamfer as on the rails but life is too short!
HELP!
Bob