Thanks, Dave, that helped. The eye dropper really helps. I've seen you mention different best practices, such as the layering technique on my Dog Pen post. Is there a list of these practices somewhere or a tutorial of some sort. I've looked through Google's help site but it's not very in depth.

Sorry, Dave, enjoy the pancakes. Lunch time over here, I'll make me a sandwich.

Plus, am I correct in saying that if you apply textures to the individual faces of the component you cannot easily change the material in the future w/o reapplying each individual face again?? That kind of stinks, kind of cuts some of the beauty of using Sketchup out of it.

Dave, I went ahead and corrected the position of the textures on all the flat faces of the component. Is there anyway to correct the texture on the radiused edges?? I don't see any option avail in the right click menu for them.

Check it out...

Thank you, Dave. I found this online, http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/16371/roy-underhills-scribed-window-sash Same process you just described, but what a PITA. Thank God for components. Make it once and forget it.

OK, hope I'm not being lazy, but I did a few searches and couldn't find any info on this. How would your recreate this type of edging?

More specifically how do you converge the 2 different edge styles at the corner? Here's what I keep getting...

Yeah, I kept the joints simple. This was kind of a test project so I could try out a new pocket hole jig that my store started selling (I work at a hardware store). Plus, I knew I was going to have a very limited time to chop all the lumber for the product. So I tried to keep the amount of different lengths to a minimum. Btw, the pocket hole jig worked out great. They don't look like much, but those joints are actually pretty strong.

Here's the component I'm working with, just in case it helps.

12mm Baltic Birch 5'x5'.skp

OK, figured it out. Here's the file...

Dog Pen.skp

Hello, all. Here's a Dog Pen that I designed and built for our 3yr old black lab. We wanted to build it on the cheap, so all the framing is done with 1x3 spruce strapping and the mesh is 1/2" Hardware cloth. Basically, all I did was built a series of 12 frames all the same dimensions. Then I sandwiched a sheet of hardware cloth between 2 frames and screwed them together. A couple larger frames were built for the top and a deck was built for the bottom. Then, I screwed them all together and threw hinges on one of the panels for a door. Put a crib mattress in the pen and now we have a happy dog.
Here's a render of the pen...

Btw, he's a really tall lab, so I built it tall enough that he can sit up in the pen without rubbing his head on the top panel.

If anyone's interested, I can share the .skp file. If there's a better way to do that, please let me know.

Well, that's too bad. It doesn't seem like it would be a very difficult thing to implement, at least for objects without curves. Oh well, thank you for the invite to the woodworking discussion, that should be fun.

Hello All, just wanted to introduce myself. My name's Jim, and have been using sketchup for a few years. Nothing serious, just more as a visualizing tool for my woodworking projects. Anyway, I'm getting into some more detailed design work and have a question regarding creating components.
I created a simple component modeling a sheet of 12mm Baltic Birch plywood. I used a combined texture for the edges to simulate the different ply's and then a birch texture over both faces. Is there anyway to make the component automatically apply these textures when creating a dado, rabbet, or other cut out instead of reapplying the textures to the newly exposed faces manually?
I don't know if this is even possible, but what a time saver if it was. Please help this newb save a little time and clicking on the mouse.