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no, its me eating dumb pudding ken,, i never done one that wasnt at 90 and didnt even think of turning the crank on a dado blade

I hear ya Larry, those step stools were my first shot at it.

larry merlau said:

my question on this is how does one cut a dado on a angle like your drawing???

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What Ken said.

Ken, as to drawing the angled side with un-beveled ends, you could do a couple of things. One of them is to utilize SketchUp's inferencing like this:


Guidelines mark the location of the outside of the board at the top and bottom. Use the Line tool and connect them as shown.



Move the cursor back along the line you just drew. Don't click. Hold it there for two seconds.




Move the cursor up in the general direction of the next line and look for it to turn magenta and the Perpendicular message to appear. Let go of the mouse, type the distance (.75 in this case) and hit Enter.



Move the cursor over the long line again for two seconds.




Then move the cursor until the line turns magenta and you get the Parallel message. This time press and hold Shift to lock the line direction and move the cursor down until it snaps to the edge of the bottom panel.



Repeat the process for the perpendicular edge at the bottom. Hide the trim piece before you get started to make it easier to see what you are doing. Complete the face and you are ready for Push/Pull.

I can think of several other ways to approach this, too but I think this is a good lesson to learn. The inferencing stuff really is quite fundamental. Knowing how to use it will make drawing, especially drawing accurately, much easier.

Here's another way. This assumes you've already got the board drawn in place with the beveled ends and you want to make them square.

[video]http://blip.tv/designclick-build/inferencing-example-6507318[/video]


this is a silent one.

I can't get the video to play here.

I had a little play with your model. Trim added to the edges of the top to make it a bit thicker and hide the dados. Trim added to the front of the angled sides hides dados, too. This was more fun than what I should be doing but now I should buckle down and get to work.

Luv it & all the help! Thank you!!!

Aw, shucks.

Thank you Ken.

By the way, I also set the feet back from the front and back edges by 3/8 in. to provide a shadow line.

Nice touch on the feet! I had originally planned on some trim for the top piece, never occurred to me to add it to the uprights...and your color addition really brings it to life!

So did you show this to your bride? What did she think?

Did you have a chance to try the two methods I showed for getting the square ends on the angled boards?

Yes I showed it to her, guess I won't be sketching any more ideas for a stand She loved it after seeing it with your artistic work added...Thanks.

No, I haven't played with the lessons, feel a cold coming on & have pretty much been on the couch all day....

Stay on the couch and get well.

I'm glad she liked it and thank you for the compliments.

TTFN