Table with Curved sidesNuts, I could have sworn I posted the attachment. I't in Word, but I'll try and do a SKP.

Ha! I never noticed the message saying it couldn't post .skb files...

Anyway, the file is a mess, but you can see the leg with the curve. The other two in the background are just copies to fool with. I want to somehow push that curved area through. Sorry for all the confusion, I should know better.

This is so frustrating. I am trying to do the leg and I got one side to do what I want but I can't get the other side.

In the three pictures I attached the one on the left is the original leg with an arc drawn from the middle of the bottom to 4" from the top. Then, in the second one I click and select the path. Then I grab the follow me tool and click on the area between the arc and the edge. The third pic is what I end up with.

I also tried the push pull tool, same results.

Wow, never mind. I don't know what I was doing wrong. Maybe I wasn't truly on the corners, but I did it again and it worked. Go figure.

Thank you.

I think I am misunderstanding something basic. First I draw a 2d rectangle with the rectangle tool. Then, I take the arch tool and click on one corner of the rectangle, then I point to the other corner on the same side and click again. Then I slide to the middle and pull out the middle of the arch, type .5 and hit return. I do this on each side. Once done I then go to each side of the original rectangle and delete it. Now I have 4 arches, each touching the other at the ends. But nothing in the middle.

Because they were drawn using the corners of the rectangle I have to believe they are on the same plane.

-Jim

Thank you. OK, I tried this and ended up with the same problem. I drew the rectangle, then I drew the 4 arches. But when I delete the unwanted lines (the sides of the original rectangle, I end up with just the four arches and no face area inbetween..

-Jim

I want to build a small end table like one I saw in a store. The top on this one had sides that had a very gently arc in them. I tried drawing an arc 16" long with a .5" bulge. Then I made 3 copies and arranged them in a square with the ends joined. But that was as far as I got. I couldn't make it into a solid that I could raise to 3/4".

Am i going about this wrong? As I write this I wonder if I should create a rectangle and somehow use the follow me tool.

I will also need to do curved legs. I attached a pic of what I'm after.

Thanks,

Jim

I have created a 3.5" x 3.5" x .75" block, a 2.5" x 2.5" x .75" block, and a sphere. Now I want to stack them all so that they sit centered one upon another. I can't seem to get this to happen, I keep getting all messed up in the different planes. I can draw construction lines and place the smaller block upon the larger one, but this seems like a work around and there must be a simpler way. The sphere is particularly difficult.

I have looked at a bunch of inference tutorials, but they all speak about aligning corners and sides, not the center of a surface.

Thanks,
Jim

Wow, you didn't have to make it look so obvious. I needed to think in 3d more. But now I have a further challenge, and to be sure I haven't tried much yet to attain it.

I want to put a cap across the top of all the pickets and ending at the posts. I want it to be rounded on top and wider then the depth of each picket (.75")so that if I route a dado in the bottom (which is flat) it will sit right on top of the pickets. I can make the cap, but I can't see how to do it in an arch.

-Jim

I have drawn a simple picket fence. 1 3.5" x 3.5" post on each end with 19 2.5" pickets in the middle separated by 2.5". The whole thing is 4' high. I want to make the middle picket 3' high and end up with the whole thing scalloped. So I drew an arc from the inside edge of one post to the inside of the other post with the middle being centered on the center picket 3' from the bottom.

Now, this is where I'm stumped. How do I get rid of everything ABOVE the arc line? I tried to intersect it but no joy.

-Jim