david_delano

Hi, I'm new here, but started reading this forum because I've been using SketchUp to design my woodworking projects.

I had to do some dovetails a couple weeks ago, and it would have been nice to have this info. I didn't make mine even, and had to redo them when I flipped the copied board over.

I've tried a few different things. After "cutting" the tails, I used the intersect tool to cut the pins. However, it was unpredictable as to whether or not this would actually work, and I never figured out what I did when it did work.

I also needed to copy and resize a board with dovetails on it. I spent time pushing back each face, but in the end had trouble getting them all to work right. Quite accidentally I discovered you could select the end of the board and use move to resize it. You can either start it in the direction you want to go and type in an offset, or make a mark with the tape measure and push/pull it to there.

David