On the off chance that I'm not being a bore, here's the next chapter in the construction of our armoire.
There is little new in this section so hopefully it'll move a bit faster.
We begin by drawing the bottom of the case. I figured out the desired reveal on the front and sides and set construction lines as guides right on top of the base assembly. Then I drew a rectangle. If you were so inclined you could measure for the required size of the bottom and simply type the diimensions after you start drawing the rectangle. I tend to work as I would in the shop by fitting subsequent parts to the existing ones.
After drawing the rectangle, P/P to give it thickness. At this point the bottom is drawn to the full dimension of the case. then I made the bottom a component.
To make it easier to work, I turned off the Base Assembly layer to hide the base. I unchecked the box for the layer in the Layer window.
I decided to draw the right side panel next. I started on the bottom of the bottom panel and drew a skinny rectangle.
I set a construction line to the desired height of the case just to give me a height to snap to. This was set as a height above the floor. If I'd known the desired height from the bottom of the case to the top, I could have simply started the P/P and typed the distance.
I made the side panel a component, copied it, mirrored the copy and set it into place on the opposite side. When using the move tool, think about where you need to grab the "movee" and where it needs to go. In this case, I grabbed the panel at a lower outside corner and moved it to correspond with a lower outside corner on the bottom panel.
I also copied, mirrored and moved the bottom panel to the top.
The next view shows the lower right front corner of the case. You'll notice that the two boards overlap each other at this point. My initial plan was to do dovetails to join the case pieces. Except for the wood that gets cut away for dovetails, the boards meet this way so why not start them out there? As you'll see I chose not to use dovetails here. I'm saving them for a drawer. I do think this is a good way to start the case assembly anyway. We'll still need the boards in the same positions for the joinery we will do. Besides, we autmatically get some useful guidelines from the piece we aren't editing when we draw the joinery.
At this point I have selected the bottom panel for editing.
I've drawn in some construction lines to show where I want to cut the bottom panel. In reality, I could use the inferencing engine in SU to guide me along because I'm working off intersections and midpoints. I didn't do that because I couldn't show it in the screenshots the way they're made. If you want to see how the inferencing works I would highly recommend looking at the demo videos on the sketchup.com site.
So I drew the lines for the cut. Push/Pull takes care of the waste.
I repeat that for the opposite end of the board and the bottom and top are completed. Since the top is an instance of the bottom component
and the top was mirrored, not only is the joinery cut on the top panel, it is cut on the proper side of the board.
I did the same thing for the top and bottom on a side panel.
And all four corners of the case are done.
Next we'll add the dadoes for the dust panels and add the panels.
