Nice work Brian. It's amazing going back to an old project and seeing the mistakes and you think why did I do that.

Thanks a lot Kristoff

Thanks Jeff will try that

In using the Classic Bezier Curve, I tried to change segments from 20s to 6s but doesn't seem to want do that and pressing tab doesn't seem to bring up anything obviously I'm missing something here I'm sure maybe someone can help. Thanks

That's really cool cotty

Very nice Dave. I've always like the Arts and Craft furniture.

You may want to use what is called poche you can find more about here

http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/09/quick-poche-for-your-section-cuts.html

Thanks Peter I appreciate that I"ll see what I can come up with.

I' been trying to model a cap iron for a hand plane and just can;t seem to get the result I want any help would be appreciated not to good curviloft yet

cap iron.skp

The lectern your design ?

Nice one Dave

Thanks Dave that works for me

Thanks

Dave your right about the layer association what was I thinking sometimes go down roads I know are wrong.
As for the finger dimple when your in the shop ya check it out, thanks

Well I've had some time to work on the model. I've really never worked with nested components much before this and it proved to be quite but I got it done to my satisfaction for the time being. The problem came when I started to copy the nested components ie the drawers to put on different layers to show the different drawers open and closed like Dave suggested, the components inside the drawer were on the original layer I'm not sure what the proper workflow for that is but I guess it came out right. I made the drawers unique so I could postion the textures so the pieces looked like the where cut the same board as I would do in the shop.The PDF came form LO not very experienced with it yet but will be before this is done. I hope to do one for the tools inside the drawers and on LO for the tool chest with the dimensions to be milled. And one last thing I modeled a Lie Nielsen low angle block plane the problem I had there was how to model the cap iron right I tried several time with Curviloft but struck out.THe pDF can be found if I did it right

https://dl-web.dropbox.com/get/Public/craftsman%20tool%20chest.pdf?w=ce7eb84a

low angle block plane.skp

Well maybe at least before dark

Ya why didn't I think of that. Will keep me busy for a while

Thanks guy's I think I'm going to model some more tools to put in to it. What's a tool chest without tools right. I'm thinking of a tri square and mallet off the bat. But at a loss for further options. Maybe a few suggestions .

Thanks

Well moving forward, sometimes 1 step forward 2 steps back. the chisels were somewhat tedious but it's all about experimenting and trial and error. I hid the middle drawers so the inside was visible.

Thanks for looking

Thanks, that's an extreme compliment coming from my mentor.