Gave it a quick go. The leg is one Bezier curve, smallest at the top, fattest at the bottom. Oh, and just for fun I added the curve to both outside faces.

BedsideTableForForummkver.skp

Cool, sorry I didn't catch that. What if, instead of having the apex somewhere in the middle of the curve, the leg tapered so that it was fattest at the bottom and a little skinnier at the top? It's a small table, so the top won't be supporting huge amounts of weight. To my eye it appears a little too heavy up top. Just my $0.02, hope you don't mind the suggestion.

A minor suggestion @ design: what about carrying the curve of the leg all the way to the short support pieces that hold the top, as if the "leg" were one long piece?

I wonder if this is the video you thought you saw? From Aidan's tutorials from some years back : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzOSwaUp_gc

Thank you. I agree, maybe its all the cartoons I watched, but I can almost hear the "tic-tic-tic" of its foot steps...

Thank you, Dave! I'm still very appreciative of all your help with SketchUp, both personally, and via your blogs and tutorials.

Hey all- Wanted to share my latest woodworking project. A small side table (in the old days we might have called it a "telephone table" back when we had, you know, telephones). Made from Peruvian Mahogany and Tzalan (related to Koa, a beautifully lustrous wood). Approx 13"x12"x32" Lots of very small joinery. SketchUp was invaluable for assisting in the layout of all the small joinery- double mortise and tenons, tongue and grooves, etc..., as well as allowing me to play with various leg shapes. I also printed out full sized templates to help with shaping.
Thanks for looking!
Michael

The most recent release (thankfully) solved it for me. Sorry that you're still having problems.

is "dollar bill" under Model Info/Units

+1 to thumbnails

The perfect amount of awesomeness!

Try File/Import and tick "Use as texture"

There are no shortage of those crazy complicated joints in Japanese timber framing, and in the Chinese tradition as well. Not trying to take away from their accomplishment, but it helps just a little that they are working in soft woods like Doug Fir (or something similar.

Hey Box- What operating system are you running? I wonder what's going on with my system, then?

Thanks Tig! It is a 64 bit OS. I thought I had read that this discrepancy had been resolved with v2015. Bummer. Any thoughts as to why the Backup file shows though, but not the primary file?

Hey y'all- I thought I'd try one more time, in case someone could help. I seem to be one of the unlucky minority who still can't view thumbnails (either inside SketchUp thru File/Open, nor thru the Windows Explorer). EXCEPT, that thumbnails Will show for Backup files (SKB files). Strange. And I've tried resetting the options under Folder and Search Options/View/ "Always show icons, never thumbnails"
Does anyone have other suggestions? Thank you

Thanks guys, and though I have no real idea what the previous few posts are all about, I was able to confirm that my settings "{A86C8053-587B-4DFB-A5E2-54E9803E4463}" are correct. Which is a bummer, as I still have no thumbnails. But thanks again for the effort.
Michael

One more thing- I've noticed that the same issue applies to PDF files on my computer. I used to see thumbnails of those files, now I just see a big "PDF" logo. I imagine this must be some Windows or Explorer setting. Anyone familiar with the behind-the-scenes workings to give me a heads up?

Here's another possible clue. If in the file menu, I click "show all files" instead of just "skp" files, the few backup files ("skB),show their thumbnails. So the SKB files have thumbnails, but the regular SKP do not. That seems weird.

oh, gotcha. I have regular non-mystic thumbs. Boring, but they've served me well