PurpLev Posted August 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loki Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 Ah! It worked, thanks. I've been working 3 years with SketchUp now and there is still a lot to learn I see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomP Posted August 29, 2010 Report Share Posted August 29, 2010 PurpLev, Dave does have one one building a book shelf and dividing the shelves. I have been watching his tutorials on sketchup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpLev Posted August 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 cool. glad it worked, and knowing that Dave already had the same concept covered in a tutorial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBaiga Posted January 7, 2011 Report Share Posted January 7, 2011 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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