Sorry, Ken. I'll admit the project itself isn't that interesting but I was hoping some folks might come across some interesting time savers in drawing that might be used in other, more interesting or more complex models. Maybe this was the wrong model for that.
Here are a couple of things I did when I drew the chair to save myself some work.
I drew the seat board first and then made a copy with Rotate/Copy to make the back. The seat board was drawn laying on the ground plane. The copy was then flipped so the notches mated.
I copied the rims of two holes from the seat board component and used Edit>Paste in Place to paste them outside the seat board component. THen I drew the wedge shaped piece in place so those circles got incorporated into the wedge component. That meant there was no lay out for the holes and they had to match the location of the existing holes.
Although I didn't have to, I placed all the wedges before I added the dowels. Then, before I added them, I pulled away a copy of one of the wedges. I opened the wedge component for editing, selected all the geometry and made a new component. Thinking about my wrapper analogy for components, this resulted in the component being double wrapped (for freshness
). Then while the outer wrapper was open for editing, I made a dowel component just as I did for the little box using the bottom of the hole as the starting point. The dowel geometry was made into a component and copied to the other hole. At the end of that process I had dowels in all the holes.
Finally, to rotate the chair into position, I selected all of it and used the Rotate tool. The center of rotation was the back outside corner of a rear wedge. The start point of the rotation was the corresponding corner on what would be the bottom front wedge at the end of the back rest board. then it was a simple matter to rotate it up until I got an "On Axis" message. By using those points for rotation I was assured that the model would be sitting on the ground plane correctly.
So, since this exercise wasn't so interesting, should I come up with something a bit more complex? Or would someone else like to suggest a model? Or, since it really is spring, now, should we have a break until the weather gets nasty again? Maybe everyone would rather be outside mowing their lawns and weeding their gardens instead of sitting at the computer. I'll leave it up to you. If the decision is to have a break until next fall, and anyone is interested in earning extra credit, the bottom of my boat needs a new coat of paint.