Post and rail molding
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Hi,
my name is giovanni, I'm a woodworker from Italy.
I started few months ago to project and plan my commissioned furniture.
Taking some advantage of video tutorials and other online material I got started quite smoothly.
Nevertheless, I'm forced to simplify my projects (they do their work as well ....) and now I wish to add, for example, some moldings to the post and rails of a cabinet door.I first created the frame, then I tried to mold the internal side of such a frame. I failed.
Then I created post and rail separatedly with the desired molding: when I tried to cut each piece at 45° at each end, I did not succeed in it.
Any suggestion is wellcome
many thaks to all
giovanni
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Hi,
Welcome to SCF! If you upload a model for members to see your problem it would help. There are many methods to achieve what you need but to get the result you need an example of your problem might speed up a solution.
This video...
shows how to use the follow me tool but a more advanced option might be this....
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The best way to mitre complicated geometry is with the intersect command. First create a rectangle that will be able to fully "slice" the moulding, then rotate it 45 degrees (Using the rotate or move tool). Once again, make sure the rectangle goes right through the moulding. Highlight the moulding, and go the "edit/intersect menu" and click "intersect with model".( a note here: if you were to select the rectangle and tell it to intersect, it would form a negative moulding profile in the rectangle) Delete the rectangle and erase the part of the moulding you don't want. Attached are some jpegs visualizing the process.
Cheers
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you should really check out profile builder, you can build yourself a library of the part you use and it will do all the mitre cuts for you.
check it out: http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=15538&hilit=profile -
I actually own profile builder, and your right it's a great tool, but (always the but)...
Intersect can cut the negatives, and as a basic tool is a good one to know. Quite often it's the negative shape it cuts that becomes so useful. -
@dale said:
I actually own profile builder, and your right it's a great tool, but (always the but)...
Intersect can cut the negatives, and as a basic tool is a good one to know. Quite often it's the negative shape it cuts that becomes so useful.you are very right. never overlook native tools, the great thing is when you can have both options and even combine the two for even more power.
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Take a look here
And have fun wood making
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