Dave - thanks for the response. That's what I've done with the rabbets - make each drawer front into 3 parts - 2 rabbets (itself a component) and the center section. It seems to work, but I expect when I get around to exporting to Cutlist it will show those the drawer front as 3 separate pieces. Any way to fool Sketchup into thinking it's one piece for Cutlist purposes?

One other question - I got the above model working, but when I scale the drawer height, the dado for the drawer bottom scales also, making it bigger than the thickness of the drawer bottom. Do I need to make this into two parts also (small 1/2" section across the drawer under the dado, and the piece above?

I've been looking for a good ruby program that could draw this, but many of the ones out there for cabinets and such don't use joinery - so no dadoes or rabbets are needed.

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I'm trying to create a model with dynamic components that will create all the parts for a basic drawer set. While I get length, width, and height to scale correctly in the DC, I can't seem to figure out a way to set up a DC for the dado for the bottom panel and the rabbets on the front and back panels (nothing fancy here, just basic rabbets and dado).

I tried to get the 'Intersect with model' to work, but with no luck. I tried putting a 2-D model with a cutting plane, but no luck there also. I did a significant amount of Googling before posting here. Cutting the rabbets and dadoes is a basic push/pull operation, but I can't seem to figure out how to do this with a dynamic components. My current state of affairs is that I have the rabbets are formed by a DC that consists of 3 pieces, 2 rabbet 'extensions' on either side of a box. I know this is very kludgy, but I can't figure out how to make the rabbets work in a DC.

Hoping my fellow woodworkers will have some insight...

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