I wish SketchUp could do THAT

[PurpLev]

A plugin that would take care of even spacing would be nice. Like when making a bookcase you can put the shelves in the right position without calculating everything.

Loki- that's actually already built into SketchUp.

If you are making a bookcase with 5 shelves (for example). draw 1 shelf at the topmost position (or bottom position - up to you). make that a component. now move+copy that shelf to the bottom most position, once positioned - before you do any other operation, type /4 (divide 4), and SketchUp will position 4 copies of the original shelf, evenly spaced between original location, and the location you moved your copy to to give you 5 shelves in total (original shelf + the 4 copies it created) evenly spaced.

PM me if this doesn't make sense - I'll see if Dave had a tutorial on this, and if not, I'll make one.

[Loki]

Ah! It worked, thanks.

I've been working 3 years with SketchUp now and there is still a lot to learn I see.

[TomP]

PurpLev,

Dave does have one one building a book shelf and dividing the shelves. I have been watching his tutorials on sketchup.

[PurpLev]

cool. glad it worked, and knowing that Dave already had the same concept covered in a tutorial

[TBaiga]

an encyclopedia of joinery pull down menu. select the mating components (2,3, etc.) and apply joinery type. each type has default dimensions, but a properties menu where you can edit representative features. you could start with Rogowski's "Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery" and expand from there (asian styles and so on).

i'd also like a custom joinery feature where you could could a default joint and create your own by combining existing joints or morphing different elements (G&G anyone?).

yeah, that's what i'd like to have.