I think there are several tutorials out there on drawing cabriole legs but they aren't terribly difficult to do. Basically you draw the front elevation and the side elevation and extrude them through each other. Then intersect the extrusions and delete the waste. The rounding of the front corner is a little more involved but you could create a path for Follow Me from the corner resulting from the intersection or you could create horizontal sections, round the corners of those sections and then use the Skin plugin to make the faces.

I would be inclined to draw these legs from scratch because I expect you'd work harder modifying a typical cab leg to make it look like the ones on the chair.

Have you already had an opportunity to take measurements? Do you have ready access to the chair?

It looks like a very nice piece.

Dave

unfortunitaley the client backed out of this project, instead opting to go with a cheaper bid. since we did not want to waste all our efforts in the design of this secret door we decided to build it and use it as a display in our booth at the homwe show. i had some 1/8" strips of stock cut and sanded to be used as bent laminations for the curved parts. by making a large form to press up the parts, face frame, base molding, door rails, center panels and drawer front, i was able to make up all the curved parts at the same time ensuring that their curves would be in relation to each other. in hindsight i would of done it in smaller pressings to eliminate the speed at which it needed to be done but my time was limited.

the finish was a mahogany dye with a tinted lacquer and under the bright lights of the spray booth i did not realize just how dark i was making it by using too many coats of tinted lacquer. since the show i have stripped off the finish and will refinish it with a much lighter tone of dye, allowing the beauty of the wood to show through.

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joe,
yes the client was very pleased with the finished piece and i had fun making it too.
here is our website. its still under construction.
http://www.tooltimetims.com

Now can we spice it up with some Ssalsa?

Now can we spice it up with some Ssalsa?

Danke vielmals

Beautiful work Sean!

Just out of interest, if you often make working SU models, have you tried using the SketchyPhysics beta plugin? Check out the SketchyPhysics forum below to see what it's capable of. You'll need to install the plugin in to view the models in action, but it's one of the most pretty impressive (and free) SU plugins IMHO.

this could help you... there is a part 2 as well and I'm working on part 3.

my local reproduction shop Springfield Blue Print sends me .tiff files those can be dropped directly into SU.

although I find it quicker to import into Autocad and trace there, it's more fun in SU.

good luck if you need anything let us know.

sawduster,
now that i look back on my post i can see that it was a little hard to follow what i was asking but the advice that you offered is just what i was looking for. make component, copy component, make unique, modify, add scene/update. rinse and repeat. i followed the link to wink and might be able to incorporate that into my project but if not, the printouts from my SU tut will satisfy the client needs and that's all that matters(sometimes)

Great. 😄
(Once I had a bunch of them gotten stuck behind my task bar)

testing attachment upload

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Welcome, Titmas.

I'm sure that you will find, as I did, the friendly folks at this forum to be very helpful. A great place to learn. 😄

Nick