Got it. Thanks again for all your help!

Hey Dave,
I'm re-creating what we did the other day, and got so far as selecting the edges of the new panel using hidden geometry and trying to scale it up...
We didn't use scale for that did we? Did we just use the "move" tool to make the panel bigger?

Ha Ha! It's a lot newer than V7 and V8!

So I tried the corner rounding trick in Version 2014, and I can get as far as the tangent arc, but don't see how to get it to crop...

I didn't know I had a PM, because I'm not sure where the flag shows up. But I answered it.

Well @#!%$!

I made the profile and square a component. Then I scaled it up 100. Then I extruded. It looked great. Then I saved... and then it looked like this:

Hey... Be nice. I'm a slow learner...

OH! Guidelines, of course! That alone will speed up the process.
But I can't seem to get the darn thing to do a tangent corner round to save my life. Sketchup is balky in my hands...

I've followed the directions, but I'm still getting screwy results.
So here's some screen caps. The first is the setup. I've got a 14x14 square with 1/8" rounded corners as the base, and a 3/4" x 7" profile with the right end dead center of the square about 2" off the base.
When I go to extrude, I get this message that the extrusion doesn't begin and end on the profile, and then all the corners are open...

Maybe one more tip...
I've been drawing up the square, then putting squares in each corner, then drawing the arc for the roundover, editing it to the right radius with entity info, then deleting the unwanted lines. Is there a faster way to round off each corner?

So the profile would be 3/4" tall and 7" wide?

Sorry guys, my popup blocker kept me from seeing any images.

I see what I'm doing wrong. You are starting with the flat face/path and creating a profile that actually creates the rounded cube.

I was starting with the flat face/path, then push/pull it up to a form, then applying the profile to that form.

What I'm really trying to create is a rectangular piece 14" x 30" x 3/4" thick, that has a 1/8" roundover on all edges.

So here's what it looked like just after placing the profile in position:

Ok. The component resize trick makes a lot of sense.
Here's another problem though in the execution of the follow me tool.

Where do I place the profile in my scenario? My method so far has been to draw the quarter round in a square, rotate all of that vertical, delete the vertical unwanted line, then move this by the point that used to be at the top corner of the square, to the inside of the "cube".
This makes selecting the face that needs to follow the top edge, very difficult, even with "X-ray" turned on...
This make sense?

I've tried the manual method several different times. I always wind up with errors somehow.
Here's my attempt with 3/4" (.750") roundovers around the top edge:
[img]roundoverError.jpg[/img]

It seems such a simple thing, really...
But if you don't know the trick, then it's impossible...

Let's say I have a 2 inch cube, and I want a 1/4" roundover on all 12 edges.
How do I go about doing that?
I've tried rounding the corners of a 2 inch square and then pulling it up to a 2 inch "cube", then trying to round the top and bottom edges with the follow me tool, but having no luck. The rounded corners always pose a problem.

Can someone please show me how it's done? I'm pulling my hair out...

Awesome... Thanks for all the help guys. The leg looks terrific in the program, and now I know how to do even more stuff in Sketchup...

I'm not surprised I screwed it all up... I worked on this thing for quite some time. I shoulda started over after you showed me how to do it....

How do you reverse a face? (Or for that matter, delete one?)

That one looks like it works. I can't totally tell from the remote connection - The screen resolution leaves a bit to be desired...

But some other guys who use the program say that once they put a bottom on the one I made, that it didn't have hollow spots on it any more.

What did you do to it to make it work?

Well shucks... spoke too soon.

I created the desired shapes, then did the intersection select command, removed everything but what I wanted, and it looked great.

When I went to import it into my other design program (Planit's Cabinet Vision Solid Ultimate), it had "hollow" spots....

What now? Did I do something wrong in the Sketchup model?

OddLeg.skp