Nice work, David. It looks like a nice chair to relax in. Happy holiday to you, too.

Thanks, Dave. Merci, Frenchy. I'll admit that I skimped on details for the slide-out drawers on the left side of the sideboard. The one photo on 1stdibs just didn't give me enough information to work with. It looks as if the drawers have grooved sides, so there is probably a pin in each side of the cabinet that fits in the grooves, but I couldn't be sure. Or maybe there's some sort of sliding guide. I can't tell. Best, dh

Old habits die hard for me, my Fathers house you need a map to find all the hidden cupboards and passages and even in my house several rooms are only accessible via bookcases.

Thank you, Carsten. I guess I missed that plugin. I'll have to give it a try. Edit: I added a note to the blog post including a link to that plugin. Thanks again, sir.

Thanks, Dave, The model is a little disconnected, I suppose. If it didn't have Richard Meier's name attached to it, I probably wouldn't have given it a second glance. Best, dh

Nicely done as always. Regards, Bob

Dear Bob, How about a piece of European Ash? I didn't have a lot of time to spend on this so I exploded the components within the groups to avoid the repetition. You could certainly work with the model as you have it and apply the material to each piece individually if you want. Check your PMs. TIG, I agree with you. The top ends of the uprights could have bow ties cut into them and matching bow tie mortises in the top. I bet it was easier for the person who built the original to cut all the dovetail joints, though. [image: QPYz_BWAshsidetable.png]

I agree about the style of the bed. I could see it in a seaside cottage. As for mattress height, I guess it's kind of the style these days. You need a ladder to get into them.

I think they would, too.

That's nice of you. I'll have to make some space in the house for them.

nice work

Hi Marina I do this type of work all the time, design in sketchup and then have parts lasercut or CNC routered -I can give you a few pointers. The first thing you need to know and understand is that sketchup does not create true arcs,circles elipses etc. All of these geometric entities are broken into segments. Sketchup is especially poor at exporting solid 3d models for this reason and there are very few instances where exporting a 3d is useful in other software packages especially where one intends using the model for any type of CNC cutting. However I get very good results using one particular plugin for getting machines to cut stuff for me its called- Tak2hata: Create Section Drawing. Install it by searching for it with the sketchucation tools- a plugin you must install if you havent already How it works is: a)you create a section through the part you want to cut b)right click on the section you have created c)create section drawing This exports a 2D dxf of the section you want cut as well as skp model of the 2D section. It eliminates all kinds of problems you may experience getting goemetry or faces on the right planes and really solves a lot of headaches for me. Note though: As I explained earlier- sketchup does not export true arcs or ellipses and you would therefore get very staggered unatractive arcs if you did this with the model you have uploaded. My solution is to increase the number of segments SU uses to describe an arc or elipse. This has to be done with the geometry BEFORE you extrude it. Method as follows a) draw arc/ellipse b)right click on it and select [entity info] c)you are then allowed to increase the number of segments in the entity info dialog box. This will give you something which comes much closer to the geometry you really want cut. Please note: after you have extruded an arc or ellipse you cannot edit the number of segments which describe it. Hope this helps Stephen

What do you think, David? And thank you.

Evidently not. I don't really care, though. I think for renders of things like this, the geometry makes more sense because of the highlights you get off the thin edges of the metal. [image: m1xM_TableCURender.png]

@cotty said: Nice. I bet you watched that GIF several hundred times?! Maybe not hundreds lol but my eyes did get bubby after a while!

Very nice, David. I recently saw a Japanese table in a video and thought of you. I'll have to see if I can find it again.

I can see that.

In a nice living room with other Mid-Century furniture? Is that a Texas thing?

Here's an image. Enjoy Best, dh [image: QH0b_Frenchartdecotable.jpg]

Thank you.