Edge Roundovers
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My name is Rick, and I'm an intermediate woodworker and a SketchUp newbie! I'm drawing my workbench; having a great time doing it and learning SketchUp at the same time. The legs of the workbench are 4"x4" with 3/16" rounded edges on the length of the legs and the bottom edges. I have figured out how to roundover the length edges. However, I can't roundover the bottom edges because the corners are already gone as the result of the length edge roundovers. Can anyone help? Thank you, in advance, for any assistance.
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Hi Rick,
Welcome from another woodworker.
There are several approaches to this. First, you might try using Follow Me and run your roundover around the edges much as you would do with a router on real wood. You would probably want to round over the edges that meet at 90 degrees to the face whose edges you're rounding first.
There are some other ways to approach this, too.
Another option would be to use Fredo's Round Corner plugin.
In either case, for that tiny round over you shouldn't need more than 3 or 4 sides for the arc.
Edited to add: Here's an example. From left to right:
--Leg with two bottom edges rounded over. If you zoom in close you'll see I only used 3 sides for the arcs. It doesn't look so smooth when you zoom in real close but from even a little distance it works.
--Profiles for roundovers drawn on top of leg.
--After running Follow Me.
--After smoothing and making a component of the leg.I didn't round over the top edges of the leg because I figure they'll be up under the top.
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Hi Rick, hi folks.
If you want to practice with native tools, click on the scenes tabs of this SketchUp file for ideas.
Bench leg with rounded edges.skp
Dont forget that there is a Woodworkers sub forum here.Welcome to SketchUcation.
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Thank you very much for the speedy reply. I can't wait to give your suggestions a try.
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