327. Szafka dla dzieci - projekt SketchUp / Children's cabinet – SketchUp project

Szafka gotowa ale nie było projektu? :) Nie ma problemu… dziś naprawiam ten błąd i zapraszam na kompleksowo wykonany projekt w SketchUp.

The cabinet is finished, but there was no plan? :) No problem… today I'll fix that mistake and show you a complete SketchUp project.

Welcome again

Today I'll be showing you another video
about designing in SketchUp

We'll be creating a plan for an item
that I already made in the workshop

a children's cabinet with drawers

Let's begin!

We'll jump straight into SketchUp
and begin working

Where would I start? With establishing our
working area or the exterior dimensions

The cabinet is 570mm wide and 460mm deep

The height is 515mm

whoops, not 215… 515mm

These are the exterior dimensions

I'll erase the center, I don't need it

Create some guide lines on the bottom

And we'll start working on the upper part

A very simple top,
I only need to round the corners

I'll make it this way:
create guide lines at 20mm

Press A for arc

After we have the first arc
double-click the rest of the corners

Pull to 24mm

Erase redundant lines

Select the whole part and create component
we'll just name it "top"

and that's it

Now we can work on the legs

I'll erase this whole part
and we can begin drawing

The leg is 45mm wide…

I'll check again…

45 x 460 mm

and is also 24mm high

The front round over was,
I think, about 15mm

Maybe even less, maybe 10mm

Again, create an arc

Done

The same on the other side

Now push these parts

Boom, done

Create component – "foot"

So this part is done. What now?

Now maybe let's make the side panel

But first I need to create
some guide lines under tho top

15mm from the front

10mm from the side

10mm from the back…

and the other side 10mm as well

OK, press R

and draw another rectangle

The side panel was 20mm thick by 435mm

435

I can pull that to the foot

Group it into a component
Let's name it "side1"

Might as well create the housing
right away

Ctrl-H to hide all others,
you should already know this

And we'll draw the housing
for the back panel

The housing is 15mm by 4mm

Push it all the way up

That's it

The side panel is done

The foot was moved back, I think I talked
about it in the end of the other video

So that it is flush with the side panel

Now we can move both these parts

and copy them to the other side

Move this part and rotate it

so that it's mirrored

Now it's only a matter of moving the foot

This way

Pressing Shift, as you remember, locks the
movement axis

And we just move it to this point

Now we need to make to bottom part

But first I need to recede the side panels

to later accomodate the drawer fronts

The drawer fronts were also 24mm thick,
so push it back

Now we're left with drawing
the cabinet floor

I'm looking for the proper point to start

OK, draw it from here

The floor was a little bit thinner
– 16mm

We'll also pull it this way…
or maybe we can just draw it like this

on the bottom

510mm x 4mm

510 by 4…

and pull it 4mm, done

Make component – "floor", done

Virtually the whole
cabinet body is finished

I won't be making the back panel just yet,
it's not necessary at this stage

We can now remove the old guide lines

so they won't distract us

The ones on the bottom as well

Let's save the progress

It's time to set the dimensions

for the drawer fronts

The fronts will determine the whole
inside grid

This will be unfortunately
a little bit more challenging

2mm from the top

And also 2mm from the bottom

That's at least what I did

Let's now measure
how much space we got left

400… I'll need to write it down…

462mm minus 6mm that will be needed for

the gaps between the drawer fronts

So, 462 minus 6 equals 456

divide it by 4

equals 114 – that's our front height

Now for the second dimension

Also 2mm…

from both sides

I wonder where that decimal came from…
But it's 546mm

546 minus 2…

546 minus 2, divided by 2…

272

So now we have the full dimensions of our
future drawer fronts

I can now draft the front

272mm by 114mm

Pull to 24mm thickness

Make component – "front1"

Should match

We can move it right away
to the correct position

Now the moment of truth…

If I place it here…

and divide by 3…

Everything should fit
and it does

Now we have to make the notches

for drawer handles

Let's edit the component

First mark the center

Now, if I remember correctly,
it was 20mm from the top

The notch was 100mm wide, so the lines are
50mm from the center each

The radius was about 10mm

So, one more and we can start drawing

I created two more guide lines

I need to draw some straight lines first
so the arc has something to attach to

Like this…

Now we only need to delete this part

And the fronts are done

Of course I can now erase the guide lines
Won't be needing them anymore

Ctrl-S, remember to save your work

Now I just have to merge the two bottom
drawers into one

We'll do it this way:

Select…

Wait, is this correct?

This is…

OK, I need to also make this one unique

Like this

Now we open the component and copy it
with Ctrl-C

Delete it, edit the other drawer

And paste it in here

So now both objects belong to
one component

Now we just need to close the gaps

It already closed itself

Select the eraser tool
and we can erase these lines

Deselect, close the component

We have a finished "front_bottom"

Now for the system of drawer slides
we have to go inside

and begin work on this part

Where would I start?

The slides will, of course, be a little
higher than the bottom of the drawer

So we have to add a couple of millimetres
to where the bottom of the drawer will be

Whoops, where am I?
Zoomed out too much

So that was 102mm, let's continue

116mm…

Again 116mm here

That's correct

So the first slide will be,
let's say, 5mm higher

5…

5…

5…

As you remember, I tried to make all the
slides from the same material

It was 30mm wide and 16mm thick

Thats the piece

We can pull it to the other side

Make component – "slide1"

We can also copy it to the back

The next slide that was definitely there,
as you can remember, or not…

was on the side

30mm, make component – "slide2"

I can already move this one

Grab it by the bottom

Move it up a level

and two levels up

Also, we can move all three of them

to the other side of the cabinet

That's good

What's left is…

adding the vertical slides

255mm, that's the center

8mm this way…

…and 8 the other way

Draw another rectangle
This will be our next part

This time a vertical one

Pull it all the way to the top
of the cabinet

Group component

This will be "slide3"

We can also copy it to the back now

We don't need these side guide lines
anymore. Erase them

Okay…

Now we have to make the
center slides, right?

So…

From the bottom

We need to set up some more guide lines

Let's continue drawing

16mm by 30mm

Pull it…

…to here

Make component – "slide4"

I see an error here

This must go 16mm higher

Because there was
a horizontal element here

OK, let's do it like this

This way

Pull it 50mm (correction: should be 30mm)
this way

and 50mm (again, should be 30mm) this way

Make component – "slide…" 5 or 6?
OK, let's make it 6

Now we can move these two parts togheter

116mm down

That's correct

And once again 116mm down

OK, as you can see there's a lot going on

I can erase all the guide lines

Won't be needing them anymore

This and this as well

Now the object is clean

Ctrl-S to save

Why don't we make the back panel now?

Easy

Press R

Drag it to here

4mm

Select, make component – "back_panel"

Are we missing anything?

Well, the drawers themselves, of course

So, the whole box

OK, while we're at it
we'll make the boxes as well

I can hide the top for now,
I don't need it

And let's make a drawer

Drawer…

As you can remember, I made some
additional notches in the front of the box

because I wanted the box to be
as high as posiible

It was, of course, a bit tedious

I wouldn't do that again the same way

So I'll skip the notches here

We'll do it like this for now

5mm

5mm from the end should be enough as well

We can now draw the side of the box

Pull it to 10mm thickness

Make component, we'll name it "box_side"

Move it to the other side

Now the back part

Also 10mm

Component "box_back"

Duplicate and move it

I won't be making this part
unique just yet

Let's hide the back panel as well

Now I'll make the housing dados for
the drawer floor

Open the side

5mm should be fine

5mm from the bottom

Make the housing

The drawer floor is 3mm thick
so 3mm by 5mm

Now push it all the way

Rotate this element this way

Now for the front and back housing

5mm here

5mm here

5 by 3 millimeters

Push

Almost ready

Rotate this part…

…around the blue axis

Whoops, not blue but green, sorry

Yep

So, what now? We need to make the
middle part of the drawer

I mean the floor, sorry

We'll do it like this

I'll draw a rectangle here

Offset it by…

the housing is 5mm
so 4.5mm

And now…

I'm just erasing the redundant lines

I can now pull the whole thing
to 3mm thickness

And that's our "small drawer floor"

Enable X-ray mode

And move it down into the housing

OK, it's in place

All is right

Just check again, X-ray

That's it, everything correct

Again, erase the guide lines

Keep the project clean

All right, everything cleaned

And the whole drawer is finished
so now it's only a matter of

grouping this all together

so 1, 2, 3, 4

and… the middle

Make component – "drawer1"

Got one more guide line left somewhere

Here

Now it's OK

Now I can finally copy it

Does it fit? It has to

Copy it down

And again

Now we only have to remake this
into the bottom drawer

which is the widest

We can also group these objects right away

Group

G is the keyboard shortcut

Grouped, grouped, grouped…

…grouped and grouped

Now it's only the bottom drawer left,
as I said

We'll make these two unique

And now we need to destroy this

So we'll make this unique as well,
because we'll be merging them

Delete this side in this one

and this side in that one

Ctrl-H

Extend…

And again, these pieces are unfortunately
nested

So we'll need to make this one unique
as well

Good…

This one unique as well

And we'll just extend this side

Delete this

Now we only have to remake
the drawer floor

I'll hide these elements because
I can't see down there

OK, the drawer floor

Make this unique

And extend it…

all the way to here

Deselect

I can delete this

The floor is done, but there's still
a seam in the middle

We need to…

That's better

That's how it should look

Select all, unhide

So, our cabinet is ready, right?

Now only the last group

This whole drawer

and the front panel

Letter G to group

Show the back panel

Rotate, and let's see if it works

The bottom drawer

Works?
Works

As you can see all the drawers work fine

And that's it!

I made a pretty long video from a short
instruction

but I think some folks might
find it useful

I virtually made the whole cabinet in this
design, every single part of it

You can now pick it apart, piece by piece

Break it up into parts

Grab the pieces

Move them and make an exploded view

Explode it, dismantle it

So you can better see how it's made

It's a very useful form of presentation

You can prepare it like this to show
the piece of furniture to someone

Have it broken up into parts

That's a form of presentation I recommend

It's also easier to see the number
of parts, in this case in a cabinet

You can see there's quite a lot
of elements

A little bit more to the front

That's how I would leave it,
don't overcomplicate it

That's it for today
Thank you for watching

Stay tuned for upcoming videos about
SketchUp and more

See you next time!