Sketchup Session 3: Draw a Jewelry Box

This jewelry box is a project that, we're gonna go ahead and build this. Now, the only reason I brought this in is it's a project we finished. It's a fairly simple project. But it'll be helpful from a beginning standpoint to go ahead, watch this whole process unfold before you so you can watch all the videos that we have on this. We're gonna do some different sections where we just do the front and sides and then the bottom and the top. Watch it all and then you can come back and do it click for click. So you can draw on your computer while you're watching this one. Might be an effective way to learn. So just get an overview sit back, watch it happen. And anyway, let's get started. So I'm gonna go over here, and I'm just gonna pull this apart a little bit. So we're gonna start out by just drawing the box part of this. So it'll just be these two ends and the front end back, then we'll break it down and see how we groove this out and put the bottom in. And then the top is a separate project in itself. So let's go ahead and take a look at this. So if we look at this, I'm gonna dump this texture just for right now. So we can see it a little more clearly. If I grabbed my Pan tool, and kind of pan down a little bit. And come in closer. You can see that we have this rabbit, which forms a tongue on the side. So that's what we're going to go for first, then we'll come back and look at this front and back. And we'll notice that there's a dado on each side of that to accept the tongues on the ends. So let's put this away and get on with our project. So we'll grab our Rectangle tool, left click on that. And we'll come down to the origin. And I'm just gonna pull this out. And as before, remember, we can use our keyboard. So I'm gonna type in six, comma, 3/4, then hit Enter or Return. And let's go back here. And at this time, I'm gonna come over, left click on my Push Pull tool and pull this up. And I'm gonna just type in four for that much, and hit Return. So now is a good time, remember, we talked about making components. So I'm gonna grab my Select tool, come over, click three times. And this time, let's just go up here and make a component. And we'll call this end. And so I'll just hit Return. So now we have a component. Now we have to edit this. Remember, if we look back at our project, we've gotta make these tongues on the end by just making a rabbit down the side. So let's do that to this component. We'll right click on the component, and then we can edit it. And we'll come over and this time we'll use the tape measure tool so we know exactly where we're gonna place our editing. And if I come over here and just go on the edge, you'll see how it says, on the edge. I left click and I drag it along the surface here. And I can tell if it's gonna go along the surface if I take the tape measure and you can see that little red box appears, that means I'm going along that edge. And that that dotted line is gonna stay on the surface. So I can release anywhere. And then I can just type in 3/8 and hit return and so then it leaves 3/8. Now I need to do that over in the other side too, so why not just go ahead and do that. You can see 3/8 comes up because SketchUp remembers what I just did. So it always wants to try to repeat it. So it was easy in that take. So let's go ahead and grab our line tool. Now, we're in the edited . So I'll come up in the Line tool, looks like a pencil. I'll left click. I'm gonna drag that into my area here. And you notice here that the center, that tongue is 3/8 so this is conveniently a 3/4 inch wide board, goes right to it. Then I can drag along. It's going in the red direction. So I know it's perpendicular. If I'm going off this way, it's not red. And if I was going this way, it'd be green. But I'm going red, so it's perpendicular. And then I click again. And now click again on that point and come over here, along that dotted line to the edge. So now what I have is a rectangle on the surface. And I'm gonna come up here and grab my Push Pull tool. So I left click on that, release, and come over. Now I can left click on that highlighted surface, drag it all the way down. And I can make sure it goes all the way down just by having the cursor go along this edge. And if I release, you can see it's completely gone. So now we have one part of that done. Now we need to do the other end. So I'm gonna just keep it in this format. So I'm gonna push on my scroll wheel, and orbit around and come over here. Now I can go up and grab my line tool. So I'm just gonna left click on that. Now if I come over here I can find that midpoint again. Left click on that, drag it in the red direction, and then click again. And then I can click again and come over and right on there, and then noticed I'm going in the green direction. So that's gonna be perpendicular. If I was out here, it's obvious that I'm not. But I'm going along that dotted line. And then I can come over and grab the Push Pull tool, left click on that, release, come over here. Now I'm on the highlighted area. And if I pull that down, and go all the way down to the bottom along that edge and release and I have both pieces, both ends of the piece done. So that component is the first part of that component is all done. So I can go up here. Also, I can get out of this editing format with whatever tool I have as long as I'm outside. And if I right click with this Push Pull tool, this box comes up and then I can left click on Close components. So if you wanted to shortcut without always going up to grab that. But you're safe getting this Select tool as well. Now, we need to make a copy of this because the other end looks pretty much just like it. But let's go up and get rid of these guidelines. I don't need them right now, we just needed them to make this rabbit up here. So let's go up to edit, left click on an edit. And we'll just scroll down here or just move our mouse down and it will day oh, there's Delete Guides. So left click on that, and they're gone. So let's go ahead and make a copy of this. So it's a component. If we come over here and I left click on here and release, I've got my move tool. Remember, if I use my Option key or I'd be a Control key on a PC, I can push that down then I can drag and I'm gonna go in the green direction. And I know that if on this project if I go 7.25. So I'm gonna just say 7.25, which is 7 1/4 inches and hit return, I'll be in the right spot. So I'd say exactly parallel 'cause I drove it along the green line. Now, if we look at this, let's go back and take a closer look here at the project. We'll notice that this is not exactly the same as that, it's a mirror object. So here we have the tongue toward the inside. Here, the tongues toward the inside. If we look at what we've just drawn we have a tongue toward the inside, and this one's on the outside. So how are we gonna remedy that without flipping it around and doing a bunch of things? Well, it's pretty easy. We just have one click and we can make a mirror of it. And so I'll right click on the object. And if I just move my mouse down, it'll say Flip Along. And so we went in this green direction when we made a copy. So we want to flip it along, components screen. So let's left click on that. And you can see what happened. It changed it just in the direction we want it to be. So just with one click, we were able to make that mirror copy. So now we have our two pieces. And we can go ahead and start with the next piece, which is this front and back. Those two are the same as these two. So let's go ahead and make this piece right here. Now, drawing rectangles can be a little bit cumbersome because see, it doesn't really wanna go necessarily in the right spot. So let's go ahead and undo what we just did there. And let's look at it. So we can see an exact end view. So if I go up here to Camera, and I go Parallel Projection. Let's do that. And looks a little goofy but they're actually parallel. But it's getting rid of that foreshortening, the way our eye sees things or the way the camera sees them. Now I'm gonna go over here. Remember we looked at different options of viewing our model. So this is on the right side. Remember, the green axis was sort of going straight back before. And red was going to the right. So if we look at the right side, that's the left. Here's the right. I'm gonna click that. So we have this perfect end view now. Now we can grab our rectangle tool. So we'll go over and left click on that and release and come over. And I just, see how it wants to snap to that point. So I'm gonna go right to there. And I'm gonna just drag it over here. And I can go to this far point, and I can click again. So now I get this shape, and I can push the scroll wheel in and orbit out, and kind of come over at an angle. And you can see that we have this right where we want it. So I'll just go over and get the Push Pull tool now and give that face some dimension. So as I pull it out, I can pull out as far as I want. But then when I type in the measurement 3/4, it's 3.4. So it sort of looks like we have our joints done. But if I come over here and grab my cursor and click on here, and then I'll right click and then I just go down and I'm gonna just push Hide this time. It's just gonna hide this piece from view. I'll look . Well, there is no joint there. So I have to make that change in this piece. So I'll go up here and we can just hit Undo, and that puts that piece back in. So let's go ahead and make this a component. We've got sort of our rough dimensions in what we want it to be. So we'll triple click on it. And then we'll right click, and we'll go down and left click on Make A Component. And we'll call that front slash back, 'cause they're the same, and I just hit return. Now we've got a component. Now we can edit this component and get these two dados in the front. So , we've got something for our ends to lock into. So we've got a wood joint. Right click, we'll edit that component. So left click on that. Now I'm gonna go up and grab my pencil tool. And I'm gonna come in here. And we'll scroll in so we can get into some detail here. Now with with this opened up as a editing function in this piece, whatever I do it's not gonna affect this one. So I can draw lines and this all day, nothing's gonna happen to it. So this is the piece that we're editing. So if I come over here to that intersection with left click, release, and click, release, and click and come around. Now I've made a lines all around this. Now if I go over to Push Pull, I'm gonna come here and grab that tool and come over here. Notice how that is highlighted. So if I go ahead and pull that down with my mouse, remember if I just pull down to this line and let go. Now there should be a groove right here. So let's go ahead and test it before we go any farther. So I'm gonna close the component. Remember, if I right click on here I can hide this. Then come around and they can see it's there. So that was pretty cool. So now to get this part back, remember I could go Undo. I can also go up to Edit, left click, and you see where it says unhide, So I could just go over there. Come over here and left click on Last and it'll stick That back end. So we've got one wood joint then, now we can do the other. We just saw how to do that. So let's go ahead and edit this. I'm gonna quickly grab my line tool, come over here, left click, drag, and just outline this. Go over and grab the Push Pull tool like we did before. Go down to the offset limit, minus four inches. And we've got it. So we can double check again. So I can close that component. Click on this, hide it, and it's there. So let's go back and undo that. So now we have this component. And it's all edited. Now, there's other ways to do this in SketchUp. I can show you one fairly quickly. So we can unedit it all of this. And we can go back to this part. Remember, that's where we just made that rectangle. Now, let's go ahead and Push Pull this and we'll go to three quarters again. Now, this time, I'm not gonna make this a component yet. I'm gonna go up and grab my Select tool and I'll click three times on it to highlight everything, just like I was going to make a component. But I'm not gonna do that yet. I'm gonna push my shift key. And I'm gonna go over and select that piece. And then I'll select that other piece. So I've selected the two ends. Now. Let's do that again. So the triple click, select and select. Now if I'm on this I can go down, let's first go in here. And I'll go down and it'll say Intersect Faces. So we just scroll down, Intersect Faces. I'm gonna go with selection 'cause I've selected those two end pieces. Okay. So what happened is that I intersected the faces onto this piece. So if I come over here and I right click here and I just hide that for a moment, and I come over you can see it left a mark. And there's that mark. And the same is true on this side. So what I'm gonna do is then... Remember, this isn't a component. So if we come over to Push Pull and we're right on top of here, this isn't a component yet so I don't have to open, it's still in the raw. I can pull this down and I've got a groove in there right now. So that's one way to do it. So let's go up here and edit and we'll unhide the last one, so that one gets put back. Now we gotta do the same thing over on this other side. So I'll right click, and I'm gonna hide this one. And because we intersected the faces, we had this highlight. So I'll just go up here and pull down. And then I can go up to my Edit, and unhide the last. So there, we essentially did the same thing in two completely different ways. It lets you see a little bit of the flexibility of SketchUp. And there's other ways to do it besides. But these are two very familiar easy ways that you can make one component from another. Now, this isn't a component yet. So what are we gonna do? We'll go up, left click on our Select tool. Click three times fast on the object. Now everything selected, even those dados that we put in there. Now, if I right click I can make it a component. And I'm gonna print in front slash end and hit return. And so there it is. Now we just have to take that piece and make a copy. But we've done that before. I go over and grab the move tool, and then push my option. And then I'm gonna... Didn't grab it yet. Let's go and undo that. I push the Command key instead of the Option. So let's go ahead and push the Option. Now it's moving along in this direction. And as long as I see the red dotted line, then I know it's parallel. I can just stop it anywhere for right now. So I'm gonna just there. Remember, we'd used the Flip Along function so that we can get this to mirror this front edge. So this back. So if I right click, and I go down to Flip Along. And then we did this in the red direction this time. Remember we're going along this red direction. So left click on red. Now it's flipped around. So if we come in close, it's gone in the right direction. And all I have to do is with my move tool I just come in close, I can grab that corner. You see how that highlights? And then it'll just lock into place. So there we go, we've got a box. And there's just one more thing that we need to do to this box. And that's to curve the front edge. And we'll do that later. But for right now, that's where we're gonna stop. Okay, last session we built these front and back and the two ends. And we've got nice perfect joints, we know that it's gonna work out and we haven't even made any sawdust yet in the shop. So a lot of our work has done for us already. Now, what we're gonna do in this session is go ahead and create some grooves down in the bottom here. Let's just take a look at our model again. So we've got these grooves that run along. Here of course they're stopped. Because we don't want that corner to reveal a groove. And then we've got our plywood bottom, which is just 1/4 inch. So let's go ahead and put the grooves and the end pieces and the front and back. Now, I'm gonna go up to parallel projection again. So if I go up here to camera and I go back to perspective, then I can kind of get out of that parallel. I enjoy working with this. As you get really complicated drawings, this kind of perspective actually takes a little bit more memory but really probably nothing to worry about in terms of woodworking. So do whatever is comfortable for you. If you like that other, you can use that. It's definitely handy in some applications. So now I'm gonna grab my Move Copy. And I'm gonna just take and make a copy of this. So remember, I grabbed my Move tool, and I'm gonna push the Option on a Mac, which control on the PC. And I'm gonna drag this end piece out aways. So I've made a copy of that component. Now remember that when we make changes to one component, it does it to all of them. So if I do something to this one, the change will be affected here and here as well. So it's a lot easier for me. I've got some elbow room to get in here and work around. So let's go ahead and make our changes on here. I'm gonna grab my tape measure tool. So I'm gonna come over here. Now, this is the inside face of this end piece. So I'm gonna come in here and I'm gonna edit the component First. So we're gonna make some changes. So I'll come down in the edge, and I'll pull up. And I don't wanna go 3/8, I wanna go 1/4. So I'll type in 1/4 on my keyboard, and hit Enter. And I get 1/4 that comes up. Now if I come in further, again, right on that line with my tape measure it wants to remember what I did last time. So concept 1/4 because I've got 1/4 inch thick panel that fits in the bottom for the bottom. Now I'll come over to my rectangle tool. So I'll click left click on that. And I'll come in this intersection. And I know that's where these guidelines that we just made on that face intersect the edges. So I'll come here and I'll move along here and I can just follow that line until I get there and then it'll say intersection, I'll click again. Now, if I go over and grab my Push Pull tool, left click on that and come over and you notice it's highlighted. So what I'll do is I'm gonna push this back. I've just left clicked and I'm moving my mouse to the left. And I go right to that edge and I'm gonna let go. So now I've come in and I've made a groove in the bottom of this piece. But if we spin around, well, notice that we Have this face here. Well faces in SketchUp, they don't really have any thickness they're just a face. And this was a remnant that got left over. We couldn't push it beyond, it just went to this point. So now it's really easy fix, we can just go up and grab our eraser tool. So I'll left click on that, release, and come down. And now this is still in the Edit component mode. So we'll just go in here and click on that line, and then that just goes away. It takes that edge in the face with it. So let's go over here. And sure enough, we've got the same thing going on on this side. So see that little circle on the eraser just hold that right over the line, left click, and it's gone. So let's just back out of that. We got a groove in the bottom of that component. Now let's peer down inside of our box and see if that happened. Looks like both sides. Remember, we flipped along this piece earlier and made a mirror of it. So whatever happens on this one gets mirrored onto there. It's like holding that piece up to a mirror. You're not gonna see the backside, you'll see the side that's reflected on itself. So that's how that works. So that's done. Let's go ahead and we'll just right click outside the box with with any tool we have. Close Component, left click. And there we have it. So we don't need this piece anymore. So I'm gonna grab my Select tool, click on it, and just say Erase. So that's gone. Now we can do the front and back. We still need a groove in those. Let's go ahead and get rid of these guidelines. Remember, we can go up here to Edit, left click, move our mouse down, and then we'll just go down to Delete Guides, left click on that. So they're gone. Now we'll make a copy So I'll grab the Move tool, Move Copy tool, and I'm gonna push option on this one and drag it out, and I'm gonna go in the red direction this time. I could edit it over here, it doesn't matter. I'm just doing this to keep things lined up for myself. So I'm gonna come over here then. And remember, if I edit this piece then this piece will reflect the changes. So let's go up and right click on it. And we'll go down in Edit Component. Now I'll come over, grab my tape measure tool again. And we're gonna come up from the bottom. And we'll go 1/4. It remembers what you did last time that's the last time I use the tape tool, I did that. Don't rely on that by the way, make sure it says 1/4. And there we go. So now those dotted lines we can see are on the face. Now, last time we use the Rectangle tool, let's go ahead and use the Line tool this time. So it'd be like drawing a pencil line on it. So we're in the edited mode here. I'll come up at that intersection. Left click, release, come along here. Left click at the intersection. Then I'll come down here, left click again, release, pull down, and left click. So now this area is bounded by lines up on the sides and on the top and bottom. So if I grab my Push Pull tool, come over here, left click, release and come over here. Now you can see that it'll want to, it will allow me to go ahead and change this. So if I push back. S I left click and push my mouse back, and I'm just gonna go right to this surface or I could go to that line 'cause I know that's 3/8 or half the thickness. So there we go, that groove is in there. And we've got a little line here. We can go ahead and erase that line because that lines coplanar, which means the line is on this surface and that surface. If it was on a different surface from one to the other, you couldn't erase it. So let me just go ahead and grab the eraser and erase it. Then come over here and erase that. Doesn't have to be done but it's nice to clean up your drawing. So just out of curiosity, what happens if you erase a line here? Well, the whole face goes away. So that's what I mean about coplanar. This line happened to be on the same plane as these two planes, so you could get rid of it. But this edge wasn't, it took up two plates. So when you erase it, that's what happened. If this happens don't panic, just go back up and hit undo. And there you go. So let's go back into our model here and see what happened. So there's our front piece and our back piece, they have grooves in them. Let's go underneath, take a look. Looks like it's all in place. So I'm gonna click outside the box. I know I have the eraser, but if I right click outside this bounded area this dialogue will come up. I can left click on Close Component. So I'm gonna grab my cursor or my Select tool, click on that and then I'll just erase that piece 'cause we don't need it anymore. And then I can get rid of these extra guidelines that were made when I was editing that component 'cause I edited that component, guidelines actually went on all the components. They weren't only over here, they appeared on this component too 'cause I'd opened it, put guidelines on there. So let's just get rid of them. So they're gone. Now, what we've got to do is fit a bottom into that space. And I'm gonna do that without pulling this stuff apart and sliding something in like you're doing normal woodworking. We can do that. And 'cause we can push components right through one another in this, which would be nice to do in the shop but can't do it. So we'll do it here in SketchUp. I'm gonna go up to Camera, and I'm gonna do a parallel projection again. And this time, I'm gonna go to a top view. So it looks like the roof of a house there. I'm gonna left click on that. Now I'm looking at this box that we've made, just on the top. So I'm gonna grab a rectangle tool. I'm gonna come up here and I'm gonna grab this corner 'cause I know I've got a groove in all of these that comes in half the thickness. So it kind of goes right down the middle here. So I'm gonna just click there, left, click release, and come down to this opposite part, left click here. Now I've got this face. So if I grab, if I push on my scroll wheel, I orbit, and there we have it. We've got this thin face laying on top. So I'll come and grab my Push Pull, and I pull up 1/4 inch. So I'll type that in, in the keyboard and push enter. There I go. That's the bottom. But the problem is it's sitting on top of this thing. We need to get it pushed down and locked into place. So we're going to actually make this a component before we do anything to it. So the left click three times with our Select Tool, right click, and we're gonna make it a component. And I'm just gonna type in, bottom. Hit return. Now, we've got this component. Now let's slide it down. Well, let's look at another cool function we have in SketchUp. And if we go over here to, and these are views. So different ways we can look at the model, remember. So this one on the left here, if I left click you notice it says X-ray. So now we have this advantage of being able to see through the sides. All the sides are transparent. And it takes your eye a little while to find out what's going on. But you can kind of see that these are the grooves right along this channel that we had made earlier. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just grab this move tool, left click on that. And I'm gonna come up here, we're not editing any of the components we're just moving them. So if I come up here, and you see where I get this little purple ball on the end, I'm gonna move that point and I'm gonna move it right down here. It's gonna fit right inside there. So let's just go ahead and grab it. I'm gonna I left click, keep it clicked in, move it down, and I've moved it right to there. And I'm gonna release. Now it's down there where it's supposed to be, it's kind of hard to see because we're X-ray. So let's go up and click on X-ray again and get rid of X-ray. Now if I look down here, it looks like it's in the right spot. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna just click on this front edge, and I'm gonna just say Hide. We can get a little better look. So if we come in here, it looks like it's in place. Now of course normally in woodworking we wouldn't make something that fit this tight. We'd never get this thing glued up tightly. But in SketchUp it makes it exactly come to a point. Now I could just click on this, edit it and then I could have this come in as 1/16 on each side and create a little bit of room for assembly or if you're using a solid piece you might want to dump in 1/8 so you'd have some room for expansion. But that's how that works. And then you could get an accurate cutting list. But for right now, we're just gonna leave it exactly like that. So I'm gonna close the component. And I'll go up here to Edit, unhide the last, and it looks like our box is nearly complete. The other thing that we want to do is if we go back and look here, we see that we have a curve on this front and a curve on the back piece as well. So let's go ahead and make that as long as we have this open. And then what we'll have the remaining is to do our top. So let's get rid of that and take a look at how we do that. Last time, we went ahead and built our bottom. Now if we go ahead and open up the model that we're looking at, we've got this curved front and it's on the back, too. So we're gonna play around with how are we gonna make that? And well notice that the curve comes out from this groove. So it's not 3/8 in like this tongue is, that comes in here. We've got another 1/16 of an inch. Because as we shaped this we didn't want to expose that and have it be visible on the front of our piece. So let's go in and make that curve on that front and back piece. Here's what we ended up with last time. So here's our front, here's our back. Now let's go ahead and take a look at this. And we'll look at it from the front view. So here's the red, and here's our blue access that kind of orients it. Remember that green is going back away from us. So let's go in here. We're gonna edit this component 'cause this is the one that we're gonna shape. So let's go ahead and click on it and get it in the editing format. Now we're gonna use a different tool. First, we'll come in with our tape measure. And we'll come in on this surface. And we're gonna come in 5/16. So I'll just type that in 5/16, and return. Now this line is 5/16 from the edge. Remember if we went in 3/8, we'd be possibly exposing that tongue which we don't wanna do. So now we're gonna take and go up here in our tools. And we'll see this two point arc. So this is really a cool tool. And it's gonna help us out with in this situation. So left click, release and drag it over here. Now, this tool, you have to see how it works. Hard to explain. So I'm just gonna come down here and click on the intersection. Then I'm gonna come up here. And don't matter what this is all doing, just click once, click twice. So we've got that established. Now you've got this piece that's dangling, this is a three click tool. So let's just kind of zoom in here a little bit. We're gonna put it, the remember it wants to snap right in the middle. Well, that's where we want our curved end. So let's click again. Now we have it. And remember, we have a mirror image over here. So what we did to this component happened to this component. So let's go over and grab our Push Pull. So I'm gonna left click on that. And I'm gonna come over here. And you'll notice that we've got our highlighted areas which means we can use that tool right here. So I'm gonna left click on there, and I'm gonna start pulling back. Notice it's happening to that left piece over there too, as well as I go back on the right. And I'll just go back right to the end, and release. And so that's shaped now. And let's go down here on the bottom part of that curve. And do the same thing there, and I'll release. So there we have it. Now I'm gonna go up here to camera tools again, and I'm gonna put it in perspective so we can kind of get a good view of how that looks. Now with this in mind, we still have this line. So what I could do, I'm gonna grab this Select tool and I'm gonna select that line. And I could say hide, and it would go away. And if you look carefully, we've got a little bit of a line there. You could get rid of that line. So I'm gonna go back and undo, so there's line again. I could select it again. And this time, I'm gonna go way up here to window. And up here in my menu, and I'm gonna click on window. And I'm gonna come down here, and there's this thing called Soften Edges. So I'm just gonna left click on that, and you'll get this box that comes up. And it says softened and smooth edges. So if I... All the way to the left, see the line there? And if I just move it a few degrees, which means the angles from top to bottom of that particular line. So if I just go even five degrees, it's completely smooth. So it just took five degrees, that five degrees on top and bottom and sort of blended it and rounded it out. So that's done. I like it. So I'm gonna just click this. And it's gone. So now we've got two end pieces, front and a back. And a bottom piece, we're well on our way to completing our first project. So let's go on next time with the top. Our box is nearly complete now. So if we go ahead and look at this, let's get rid of these lines again, the guidelines. So remember, we go up to edit. We'll just move our mouse down, and left click on delete guide. So that's gone. Now we're gonna, remember how we made the top? Or the bottom? Excuse me. We're gonna make the top. Start off in just about the same way. So I'm gonna go up to views again, just because it's a lot easier to control. First I'll do the camera and we'll do Parallel Projection. We get that sort of funny looking thing. And then I'm gonna come up here and we'll look at, see, there's a roof top. Means we're looking from the top now. Now, here are our curved edges that we just made in the front and back. Remember, here's the red and the green axis. So here's that curved edge. We're gonna make a top, remember the top if we look at this, I'm just gonna open this up real quickly. See, the top has this piece that comes down from the top and fits inside of our box. It sort of stabilizes the box so it doesn't just fall off of there. That's what we're gonna go ahead, and make that part first. Okay, here we are. So we'll come up, grab our rectangle tool, left click and release. Come over here. And last time we were out here for the bottom. We're gonna come right in here 'cause we want this to fit inside the top. So click on there, I'll come over here. Let me escape and try that again. Make sure we have it. Okay, there we go. It's there. So if we come, it did seal that up. Then we'll come over here with the Push Pull tool again. Now remember, if we click on this and pull our mouse down, we can get this surface to go down inside. So let's go ahead and do that. So I'm gonna left click and pull down. I pulled down sufficiently. You can't see what happened, so I'm gonna just put in 1/4 and hit return. Now I'm hoping that that went down in there. So remember, we can always check by clicking on this and hiding it. And yes, it did come down inside there. So we can go up here and do undo to put that piece back in place. So that operations taken care of, now we can go over and grab the Push Pull tool again. And this time we can come up. So let's go ahead and come up here, a 1/2 inch. So I'll type in 1/2 and Enter. Now, that was a second operation so there's still 1/4 inch chain down and then there's a 1/2 an inch up here. Now what we have to do is it's a good time, whenever you just get a top and bottom and sides to go ahead and make it a component. So I'm gonna go over here, and this time we're gonna grab this Select button. Click three times, remember? So all the edges and surfaces are selected. We'll go up and make a component this way this time. And then we're just gonna call it top And let's go ahead and push in Return. So there it is. Now, it exists in space. We can't alter it unless we edit it. So now let's go ahead and edit it. So I'm going to right click, and then go down to Edit Component. Now, if I grab my Push Pull tool and I pull this out. Let's see, it wants to pull that bottom part that's underneath there with it. So that's not a good situation. How are we gonna edit that so we just get this top part, and we leave that recess down below? Well, the best way to do that is come up here and grab the line tool. So I'll left click on the line tool. And this is in edited format, so I can just take and make a line there. I can push in my scroll button and orbit and then I can make a line here. I can push in the scroll button to orbit, and then I can make a line here. And I believe I'm all the way around now. So there we go. We're back where we started. Now, I can go over and grab my Push Pull. Remember, I've separated this under part with this upper part with a line that went all the way around. So I'm gonna left click here and come over here. Now if I pull this out, you notice I'm not pulling that part that's recessed anymore. So I'm just gonna come flush here. And I know that flush is even with the outside, but I know the top overhangs 3/8 of an inch. So I did that is one operation to register where I'm at. Now I can just go over here and type 3/8, and hit return. So now I know that I'm over 3/8. So let's just push our scroll button in to orbit. We'll do that here too. I'm just gonna come right to that edge. I brought it over that edge. And then we'll just come 3/8 more. So I'll just type in 3/8 and return. And we'll just do that over here, come to the edge, stop. Go 3/8 more. And then I'll come all the way to the back, come to the edge right there. And then come 3/8 more. Type in 3/8 and return. So there we go. And I'm gonna go up to Camera, and I'm gonna go perspective just because I like to look at it the way my eyes really sees it. And it looks pretty correct. Now we're ready to learn a new tool. Because if we go back and look at this, here's our top. Let me just move the top over here so we can take a good look at it. So the top has this chamfered edge, and it's got some inlays in it. So let's go ahead and look at it and there's our recess. So we've got to get our top to look just like this one. Best way to do that is come over here. And here's another tool. And this one is an offset tool. And what this offset tool is gonna do is help us make a line that's concentric inside, meaning that it's the same from every edge, the same distance and it's just a shape. So it's gonna take this perimeter shape and create the same shape inside. Let's go ahead and click on it and see what happens. So here we go, we get this sort of concentric circle look by our cursor and then we're riding along this edge. So that's good. That's where we wanna be is on top of here. So if I just click inside and then I move my cursor, and this line appears. And so if I go down to my dimensions and I type one and Return, I get a line that is one inch from every edge. And it's sort of the easy way to do that. I could do that again, and again, and again, as long as I type in the number. So with that being done, now what we have to do is get a bevel over here. So what I'm gonna do is go over to my tape measure tool. I'm gonna come in here on the edge. And I'm gonna come on the edge one inch. And so that An inch from here to here now. Then I'm gonna come with my pencil tool. I'm gonna come to the midpoint here. So that's 1/4 inch. Remember, this is a 1/2 inch welled together. And I'll just come up here. And then right to that intersection, I'll go just like that. Now, we're gonna learn a new tool. And that's called the Follow Me tool. So this is gonna be like putting it on a shaper or a profile edge and a router and making this go all the way around, this shape that we've created. So what I'm gonna do is grab my Select tool, and I'm gonna select a path for this shape to go around. So I'm gonna click there. And remember, if I push my Shift key, So I'll push that down. Then I can keep selecting as long as I keep that Shift key down. So this is the path that I want this shape to go. So if I go here and left click on Follow Me, those lines went away but they're still highlighted. So if I go to this now, you'll notice that this is ready for an operation. So I'm gonna left click where it has these dotted lines where I made that shape. And then all of a sudden, I get this chamfered edge. Looks pretty neat. And so that part of the top is done. Now there's another way to make the top too. And let's go ahead and look at that. I'm gonna go over here. And we're gonna undo just what we did. We'll undo that shape that we made. And we'll even undo that inscribed part. Now, I've got to take the top and make it 1/4 inch thinner. So I'm gonna come down here and put in 1/2. And we're doing that because we're gonna lift the top up, and I'll show you a tool that'll do that. So let's go back here again to our offset. And we'll do that same thing that we did before. And we'll type in one and Return. And now we've got this offset, the top is just 1/4 inch thinner than it was before. So we're gonna pull this up 1/4 of an inch. So how are we gonna do that? We'll take this Move Copy tool, and we're gonna put it in the middle. And this time we're gonna take the Alt key on your pc or the Command key and your Mac and push that down, and we'll just pull this up. Now I'm gonna let go and I'm gonna type in 1/4 and hit return. So now it pulled that section up 1/4. And then we've got our top. So both ways work. Like I said, in SketchUp there's a lot of ways to do things. So this is just two ways to make that chamfer edge. So I'm gonna go push my select key, select outside, and we have that part of it done. So now we've got an inlay. Let's go ahead and look at the inlay. And if I edit this group. We've got, excuse me, we've gotta Exploded it. There we go. We've got fees in lays. So there are two pieces that we're going to look at inlay. Let me take that down. So we'll use our follow me tool again. So let's go ahead and edit this component. And we'll come over here. And we're gonna grab our offset tool again. Remember, if we just kind of hover on this edge and we come inside and click and move this, you'll see how we can get this concentric line. So I know that I wanna make that 9/16. So I'll type the 9/16 of my line, stays there. Now let's put another one inside. So I'm gonna come in here. And I know that this time I wanna come 1.25. So I'll type that in so 1 1/4. And I'm left with that. So now I wanna actually make some pieces. You could stop there and say, "Well, I'm gonna take this to the shop and I know I can get measured mitts off of this." But we can actually make pieces here. So let's go ahead with our Push Pull tool. And we're gonna come down here and we're gonna recess this 1/32. So I'll type in 1/32, hit Return. Now you can see it's dished down. And I'll do that on this one, 1/32. And that's dished out. So now we've got that part of it down. I'm gonna go up and push my Select key. And I'll show you how to make a piece. It looks like a pretty tough operation to get in here and make a rectangle and get that built out. So I'll show you an operation that will work for this type of a peculiar situation. Let's take our Select tool, and we're gonna double click that shape where we wanna create an inlay. So what I've done by double clicking instead of triple clicking, the double clicking takes the face and the edges that bind that face. So we're surrounded. So there that is. And then I'm gonna go up here to edit. And I'm gonna say, Copy. So now I've copied that. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna click outside of here to unselect my edit component. Now what I can do is I can go up to edit again, remember, I deselected it. So I'm gonna go up here and I'm gonna go Paste in Place. So I'm gonna left click there. And now I've got this thing that pasted in place from my last operation when I had this component open. Now I can simply go over to my Push Pull, lift this up with a surrounding hedge. And now I've got an inlay that fits in there perfectly. So but what I need to do is click on it, click outside. Click down at three times. You can't see it all get bounded. But then I'll just make it a component and I'm gonna call it inner inlay. So create. Now let's grab our move tool. Let's see, it didn't catch. So let's go ahead and undo that. It must not have selected it. So let's come in again and reselect it. There, we've got it all. Now let's make a component. And we'll call it inner inlay again. And we'll create. There we've got it. Now we can go grab our Move Tool and come over on it and pull it out of there. So now you get this thing that's a 1/32 of an inch thick. So you have to be careful when you select something that we can't see all the edges that we can get it. So I can come over here grab that end, and it'll into place. So now we can do exactly the same thing with this other part, this outer inlay. So let me just grab my cursor. And I'm gonna edit this component again. So I'm gonna come in here, left click, go over, push Copy. And then I'm gonna click here to get out of the Edit component for the top. And I'll come over and say Paste in Place. So it'll take whatever we had selected, I hadn't moved anything. So just pastes that surface and the edges are in place. Now I can come over, grab my Push Pull tool and pull this up. And I can just go even with this face. See, it says on face and component. Now I have to go over triple click, make a component. And we'll call this outer inlay, and push Return. So now we've got an outer inlay. So if I come over here and try to lift it out of place, you can see that we've got that neat little thing that just like you cut it out a piece of veneer. And we can pop that back into place. We better zero in on it so we get it right back, tucked in where it's supposed to be. So that's the thing. Remember, we can group all these things. Now if I want to come over here and move my top or any part of this, it comes apart. So let's go back can push Undo. So let's go ahead and take our Select tool and do something we learned before. We can click on that. We'll put the shift key, we'll click there, and we'll shift, then we'll click there. And then we'll just make a group out of the whole top. Then I can come over here with a move tool. And then I can move the whole top because I grouped all those pieces together. It's kind of handy 'cause if I tried to move something, then I would get one of the inlays or with the top. So I can just push Undo. So we've got our whole box all done. So that's our first SketchUp project completed.