The Sketchup Learning Curve

When a face disappears when editing, as long as there is the proper geometry left to support it, all you have to do is trace over one of the edges and the face will pop back in place. If it still doesn’t, than that means you have a gap somewhere in the line work, or maybe some edges are now not coplanar. I played around with your model a little and I was able to radius the other upper edge on the angle. It was a little tricky but it’s doable.

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

What did you do to to produce the radius? I tried drawing a curve and extending it back, but it didn’t follow the line. I tried intersecting, but it removed the skin (and when I tried adding the skin back, it claimed the edges weren’t coplanar, which I believe, but don’t know how that happened).

I’ll try working with it again tonight, but a description of what you did might be helpful.

Thanks, David!

Also: have you any idea how to make a screw with the inclined plane? I feel like if I could do that, I could do just about anything with Sketchup.

-- Rookster, (http://www.robertkarl.org/woodworkingblog/)

I should be learning Sketchup or working on my website. Just like hangin’ with you guys. Really admire the people with Sketchup skills.

-- Todd A. Clippinger, Montana, http://amcraftsman.com

I will play around with your model today and post what I did to see if it’s what you were looking to do.

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

Thanks, David. I did a little bit more playing with it yesterday and think I got a little closer using intersection. My insight was to turn the angled plane parallel with the axis, now I just need to figure out how to make sure both ends of the curve intersect with the edges. Every time I tried this time round I had the opposite problem of before: I had skin on the curve, but the rest of the skin disappeared. :P

-- Rookster, (http://www.robertkarl.org/woodworkingblog/)

I think I have had the same problem. When I created my router table in Sketchup I needed to make the router plate, which is just a 3/8” thick rectangle with radiused (rounded) edges. How hard could this be? I couldn’t figure out how to round the edges.

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-- Rookster, (http://www.robertkarl.org/woodworkingblog/)

So I’ve been thinking about and working on this problem. Still don’t have the right answer if I need to actually have a roundover applied to the piece, but now I can make it look like it's rounded over. For now that’s close enough.

-- Rookster, (http://www.robertkarl.org/woodworkingblog/)