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I start with the front.
I draw a rectangle an type in the values for the width and the depth.
Then I pull the face in the 3rd dimension and typ in the value for the hight.
I create a component by selecting the front and pressing G.
I draw a rectangle and type in the values for the profile.
Then I selct the face and move it to the midpoint of the front.
I start pulling the side and type in the value for its length.
Followed by the creation of another component.
Then I move the side in the direction of the front and type in the value how much I want it to be moved.
I open the parameter window of the wudworx plugin. All parameters are adjusted already.
With 3 clicks I draw the dovetails. Firt the tail board, then the pin board.
I add some color for better differentiation.
Then I copy the side part.
To make both sides symetrical I mirror it along the red axis.
The pins has to be drawn no the other side of the drawer front.
The drawer needs a back panel now.
I push the face in the 3rd dimension and type in the value for its thickness.
I ctreate a component by triple cklicking the part an pressing G.
Some more color.
The rear panel gets the pins...
...the side panels gets the tails.
The other end needs pins as well.
I want that the back panel has an offset of 8mm form the upper edge.
I push the pins inwards,
and delete the redundant line.
I do the same on the other end.
I push the rear panel down
and fill the gap in the side panel to a small slant.
Every step I do on one side is automatically done on the other side.
It's because the sides are copies of one component.
The bottom edge has to get an offset as well.
I do it the same way as I did it above.
The gap has to be filled straight.
I also erase the redundant lines.
I find that the distance from the edges to the pins is too much now.
The outer pins has been lost.
The guide lines corresponds with the grid of the pins and tails.
I want to move the pins by one grid.
I select the pins...
...and move it by one grid.
I copy one pin downwards.
I do the same with the tail piece.
The faces which SketchUp creates automatically has to be deleted.
One face has to be restored at the pin piece.
It looks mauch better now.
I have to move the pins at the other end as well.
And a face has to be restored.
The drawer needs a dado for the bottom.
I draw a rectangle for the bottom.
The dado in the drawer front has to be built yet.
2 lines devide the face.
Now the dado is getting it's depth.
Ready!