How To Make A Rocking Chair In Sketchup

Maloof rocker roughing into sketchup step 1.

How to make a rocking chair in sketchup. Google sketchup 6 can be downloaded for free at the sketchup website. Use the push pull. The first step is making chair legs see this video and learn carefully i ll make it to the next step. Now tap playback speed.

It is based on the plans that i got from the url below. This is a model of a rocking chair. Using the line tool draw a side view 2d chair on one sides of the object. It is a woodworking model so each enity is a seperate component that can be measured and manipulated individually.

And set it to 0 5. Vertex tools 00 26. Tap the 3 dots in the top right corner of your screen. My first video im using curviloft slicer5 and bezier curves.

Import as an image the orthographic sketches from sam s article how i make a rocker in fine woodworking issue. Prototype to the rescue to sort all of this out into useful design information i decided to do some hands on research and build and play around with a functional prototype. In this video i will show you step by step how to draw a classic armchair with sketchup. Create a rectangle and use the push pull tool to create a 3d rectangle.

In terms of rocking chair design the goal is simply to wind up with a rocking motion that feels comfortable. And set it to 0 5x. I timed myself on this model from start to finish counting the time i used experimenting and then fixing my mistakes it took 3 1 2 hours.