Today in the Shop

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:17 pm

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dusty · Post by **dusty** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:32 pm

Mark: Are the hinges surface mounted or were the doors drilled to accept the hings.

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Mon Jan 09, 2012 7:42 pm

Dusty those are the European concealed hinges. They take a 35MM or 1 3/8" recessed hole 5MM from the edge of the door. I have a machine that drills and inserts them but it is very easy to do with the Shopsmith in drill press mode. It is actually a 2 piece hinge and the plates that attach them to the cabinet are surface mounted.

paulmcohen · Post by **paulmcohen** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 1:12 am

wannabewoodworker wrote:I wonder if Sketchup can print them out life size on a huge plotter?

I have been unable to get Sketchup to print out full size patterns on small items that fit on an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper. I did a bunch of Google searches and most seem to say that you need to export the design as a 2D (JPG) file and then print full size with some photo software. Once it is an image it looses all concept of real size so printing it is never to scale.

So far that has failed completely. The design is round and very difficult to scale correctly when I import it into photo software.

If I could get this to work getting it to work on an HP plotter would be trivial.

tdubnik · Post by **tdubnik** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:06 am

Paul,

I did a tutorial on how to print to scale in Sketchup a while back. You can find it here. Hope this helps.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:35 am

tdubnik wrote:Paul,

I did a tutorial on how to print to scale in Sketchup a while back. You can find it here. Hope this helps.

Some of the tools (the houses) are not shown in my tool bar. I had previously concluded that the tools were in the Pro Version and not in the free version. Am I right or wrong.

tdubnik · Post by **tdubnik** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:40 am

dusty wrote:Some of the tools (the houses) are not shown in my tool bar. I had previously concluded that the tools were in the Pro Version and not in the free version. Am I right or wrong.

I don't have the Pro version so they must be in the free version.

If you go to the "View" - "Toolbars" and check the "Views" option you can add that toolbar.

wannabewoodworker · Post by **wannabewoodworker** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:58 am

MB,
Thank you very much for the clarification on assembly. So in this photo you would assemble the "box" using glue, Festool domino's (biscuits), face screws and pocket holes? Then it is clamped together? Also I noticed that you just have bar clamps holding it together. Do you not need to use some type of corner brace or jig to keep it all squared up? Thanks again for answering all of my dumb questions but at some point I want to build some cabinets and boxes etc. and this post is enormously helpful.

mbcabinetmaker · Post by **mbcabinetmaker** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 7:58 am

http://www.sketchupwoodplans.com/2011/0 ... up-part-1/

Try these directions. I make patterns all the time using them. They usually print out on more pages than I feel is necessary but I just align and tape them together.

dusty · Post by **dusty** » Tue Jan 10, 2012 8:21 am

tdubnik wrote:I don't have the Pro version so they must be in the free version.

If you go to the "View" - "Toolbars" and check the "Views" option you can add that toolbar.

Thank you, I found them.