hey everybody and welcome to the second partof this video tutorial series on how to make casings in google sketchup in the first video i showed you how to use the follow me tool to create this casings around this doorframe and in this video we're going to create some casings around this window
can you 3d print from sketchup, uh... but with this method you'll be able toactually remove or edit uh... move around the casing separate fromeach other
with this uh... casing the way it isnow it's all one-piece so you can't pull the right side away from theheader or or the left side away or whateverwhich ya know, most of the time that's going tobe fine you don't need to.. you know, separate them um... for the rare occasion that you do need to you know pull part the casings oryou want to be able to the
you know show up more accurate to real lifehow it's separate pieces of wood then uh... this tutorial should help you so here we have three casings and you can see in the middle one hereis uh... very basic it's just a square three-and-a-half inch wide by threequarter inch deep uh... you know one by four so this is
as you would expect the easiest tomanipulate uh... to create this shape that we havehere uh... because you can see i already have the profilemade you just grab the push pull tool to get you know a length and then you can select the the edge uh... now before you do that you wantand know the width of this
and if you're not sure you cangrab a tape measure tool and measure you can see it's three-and-a-half inches so once you do know the the width ofthat you grab the move tool and you have to have the edge selected and you click and you pull up to the same distance
that it is wide, so three pointfive inches enter and you can see we have a nice fortyfive degree angle cut now wouldn't that be great if that method worked for other casings it doesn't if you try to do that with any type ofcomplex curve or
anything it doesn't work so i'm gonna show youhere this profile i have in a group, so i'm gonna openthat up grab the push pull tool, click i'll just bring it up to there and if i try to select that one edge and move it let's see what happens
grab the move tool go and start to click and look at that they're just completely tears apart sketchup starts to add all these little all these edges to the profilebecause you know all this other stuff is stayingput so has to add a bunch of edges an order to create everything uh... create all the faces flat because everything in sketchup
is a straight edge or a straight face that's it even curvesthey're just made up of straight edges and straight faces so let's take a step back here and look at thisyou notice how when i pulled the casing with the push-pull tool i've got like a bunch of these edgeshere that don't look that great
i know we talked about this in the othervideo but just real quickly just grab the eraser tool hold-down control and you can select by you know holding down the left uh...mouse button and dragging and you can actually select you know multiple lines at once and what this does is it's smooths those lines so we want to keep the inside corner theoutside corner 'cause those are some
pretty defined edges but get rid of those as well so now we have this nice clean looking casing okay so how do we figure out the angle of this case the first thing we do is grab the tape measuretool and we're going to want to figure out the width of this case and so we have two and aquarter ok so we just press escape there
we wanna make a guide so from this outside corner so whatever whatever uh edge that's gonna be the pointy side of the uh... the angle so the outside edge is where you want to put this guide so two and a
quarter just type that in you get your your guide and then take the select tool select the face of your profile doesn't matter you can just select theface or you can double click and grab the whole edge
and then you want to uh... orbit around to the back side in the inside corner okay so this point right here so we're going to grab the rotate tool we want to be on this for me it's the red uh... axis with the rotate
and so you click once to engage at thatcorner which is important you wanna makesure you're on that the furthest point in inside of thecasing and then you click again uh... with where the where you're parallel with theedge and you drag up too forty five so i'm kind of weird angle hear so i'm just going to orbit around a little
and i got thirty... forty three forty seven... come on forty-five okay i could have clicked and then just typed it in and i don't know i didn't do that :) okay so you can see i've got thisforty five-degree corner but wait a minute what is going on you can see what happened here um...
this face when i rotated it it didn't uh... scale at all so what happened was everything else connected to that face moved around and scaled out in order to keep this face uh... locked into its originaldimensions
so we have one more step to do and that is to scale it with that still uh... selected you just grab the scale tool you grab this corner and you just dragup to the guide that you just created there you go! so we've we've now brought the uh... the edges
parallel back to their original parallelconfiguration and you have this great forty five degree uh... angle cut the other method you could use you startout the same way grab the tape measure tool figure out your width which is two and a quarter we already knowthat creat a guide two and a quarter
so we open up that group we come around the back side rotate tool grab the inside corner now here's where it it changes up youwanna hit control to create a copy so we do that and we go to forty five degrees there's an extra step here you grab thescale tool
and you scale that face up to the the guidethat you just made then you want to select the face of the casing then you grab the pushfor for and you push it up to the guide and now what you've done is you'veactually divided
these two faces so now you can hit theget the eraser in just erase the parts that you don't need now the advantages of doing this overthe other method is not clearly seen unless you show hidden geometry so if you go to view and hidden geometry you can see
that this first method the faces when you when he scale it out of proportionand then bring it back sketchup will create these triangular faces with this method you retain that nice parallel line uh... when you're using the push pull tool
so now i'll go ahead and start putting the casings on the windowsso the first step is to set some kind ofguide so we'll do that at a quarter-inch and we'll do that all the way around thewindows okay so we have our guides so now wewant to go back to the table and grab one of our casings
i'm gonna grab it from the inside corner of one of our angles and then we just drag it in and snap tothe intersection of one of our uh... guides next we're gonna open this group and we need to create an angle on this side as well
so i'm gonna go ahead and do that using the same method in here's just a quick tip wheneveryou're working on something that's attached to another you know other geometry like right now i need to spin around tothe back side of that casing in order to use the rotate tool so i created a custom keyboard shortcutthat allows me to quickly hides the rest of the model whenever
i'm editing the group or component so i use the x keyboard uh... key to hide the rest of the model and it's it comes in handy a lot so now i canrotate to the back of this casing and use
the rotate tool to create the angle okay so now we have this group that we can use for every for each sideof the window so i'm just gonna select that face of the corner and drag it down
to where i need to be so now that i know the right side is the same height as the left side i can easily just drag it over and scale using the scale tool i can turninside out to get a mirror image so i just select the casing i start the move
tap control on the keyboard to make copy and i'll come back over here to the intersection and then using the scale tool i'll grab this blue scale about opposite point then i'll just drag it out until it equals negative one and that's an exact mirror image
so to make the top header we'll go ahead and make a copy of it i'm just gonna drag it out here on thegreen axis and click and you'll notice that when you have themove tool selected these uh... little red x's pop up and what those are are shortcuts to therotate tool so you don't have to actually go andchange your tool to the rotate if you have
moved uh... activated and you hover over any group or component these will pop up so you just click on that and you can rotate it to get the proper orientation that you're lookingfor and we just drag it up to theappropriate spot and resize the length so that's my method of creating anglecuts with keeping the uh... each component separate
so now instead of having them altogether we can move these out of the way if we want to
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