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Voiceover:I decided to skip ahead a little bit
and create these interior rails
without you guys having to watch me do it.
It's probably getting kind of boring at this point.
The only difference between the outside rails
and the inside rails is obviously
the inside rails have dados,
or have dados, the grooves, on both sides.
They're also a full two inches wide
as opposed to 1 3/4 because the outside ones
have this quarter inch lip to deal with.
All those dimensions will be in
the final version here so don't worry about it yet.
I will go ahead and move those into position,
grab that top corner if I can get to it.
There we go.
The challenge is I don't really,
without doing some math,
don't really know where it's supposed to go
to be equal distance.
We want all the panels the same size obviously.
I'll put one there, and the second one,
grab it and put it right next to it.
The trick here is I'm going to actually
measure the space that's left
using the ruler tool from that point
to that point.
It looks like exactly 12 inches,
right there 12 inches.
Delete that line that just got created.
Three panels 12 inches
I've got to go pull out a calculator,
but I think that's four inches each.
The move tool if I move this one,
this is the original one,
I'll select it and move it from the point it's at
over too far and then I'll actually
just type in four enter,
and that's where it belongs.
This next one I'll move it to sort of the zero point,
the starting point, and then another four inches.
So that's where they belong.
Now we have everything except for the panels
is in the model.
Now to add the panels in I use the rectangle tool,
come down to one of the corners,
the visible corners,
and now I created a rectangle that fills the hole,
but don't forget we need to add 3/8 of an inch
all the way around to account for the groove
for the extra part of the panel
that will be hidden.
So I use the offset tool to do that.
Come outside 3/8 of an inch
which is the depth of the grooves,
and now I really want to clean up that interior
so I can double-click to get the inside stuff.
Hit delete to clean it up,
and now our push tool comes up.
The panels will be a quarter of an inch thick,
and we can triple-click make them a component,
and they will be called panels.
There will be three of those eventually.
Again, we've got sort of a trick
to get those into place.
Here's how I would do that.
I'm going to draw a line from one corner
of the hole, or the opening, to another,
and sort of create a target.
I'm going to make sure I get this
bottom edge, the top end of where the panel will sit,
the top surface of the panel,
and diagonally make everybody dizzy again,
zoom in down here and diagonally across
to the exact opposite point.
Now I've got a line stretching across
the gap where I want my panel.
I'll draw another line on the panel itself
from one corner to the opposite.
It doesn't matter that it's going a different way
because both the lines have the same midpoint.
If I select everything here,
use the move tool and grab it all
by the midpoint of that new line,
I should be able to just come over
to my opening, to my hole,
and with a little bit of luck there we go.
I snapped to the midpoint of the second line.
All I have to do now is use the eraser
or select them one at a time to erase
these extra lines.
Now that panel is exactly where I want it to be
right in the opening.
The last two panels are very easy to move around.
All I need to do is select the existing panel
by clicking it.
It's a little strange here because all the edges
are covered up.
You can't see the blue line so I'll actually
turn on the x-ray feature just real quick
to show you I do have it selected.
All I need to do, and turn that back off,
is use the move tool and pick sort of
a reference point, let's say this bottom left corner
of that edge.
All I need to do is move it,
hold down the control key again
to make a copy,
and move it to the exact same point
in the next hole.
You can't see it again,
but that's still selected so I can
move it from there with the control key again
use the same point again,
and now I have three panels and a complete model
where everything is a component
and has the right dimensions in joinery.
The only remaining thing left to do
would be to pull it apart
and put some dimensions on it
because most of these dimensions I just don't know
even though I've drawn the thing.
That's the whole point is
let's go get some dimensions
for taking out to the shop
and actually cutting up some wood.
For dimensions I won't bore you
with the whole details.
I'll put one together with all the information
you'd need to build it
and ask Marc to host it on his site,
but I just want to show you how
the dimension tool does wrok.
It is sometimes on the toolbar here.
I don't have it on the standard toolbar
which is all I've got shown right now,
but if you go into the Tool menu
and hit Dimensions you get this little dot
that follows you around.
You can then pick two points,
and then pull off any dimension you need.
That particular rail is 19 1/2 inches.
This one, the visible portion of it is 32.
Don't forget there's some tenons there.
What you can do then is to get the full dimensions
on everything, you can explode the thing
and create an exploded diagram
where you go in and get the full dimensions
on that whole piece.
Again, I'll put that out there for Marc
to host on his site so you can get
the project dimensions,
but that is it.
If you stuck with me this far,
I hope you learned a little bit about SketchUp.
It's a great little planning program,
and I use it a lot out in the shop
to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing.
That's all I've got for you. See ya!