The bad news is that it changed from being a solid component named “drawer front” to a solid group. The good news is that SketchUp made the other half of the joint as soon as I clicked on the drawer front. I like to say SHAZAM! on the second click, but it isn’t necessary. When the parts are in position, I select the Trim tool from the Solids Toolbar, click on the side and then on the front. The side will join the front with a half-blind dovetail, so I moved the side to positiont the back of the tails on the back of the drawer front, and the outsides are flush. The first step to use the Solid tools in SketchUp Pro, is to position the parts. That process is described in this post, with tenons becoming mortises. In the free version of SketchUp, this can be done by copying geometry from one component to the other. I want to make sockets in the front for the tails in the side. The piece highlighted is my drawer side, and the other piece is my drawer front. Like everything else in SketchUp, they are hollow shells composed of faces and edges. Solid in the sense that there aren’t any holes or bits and pieces of stuff sticking to them. These two parts are each “solid” components. Here’s an example, and how to iron out that wrinkle. But the second component ceases to be a component, it becomes a group. When you use the “Trim” command for example, you use one component to cut another. But there’s a wrinkle that makes it seem that the solid tools aren’t the time saver they appear to be at first glance. I can take a component that has dovetails on the end, wave a magic wand and have pins and sockets appear in another component. I do a lot of detailed models of furniture, and these tools make my life a lot easier and my work go much faster. One of my favorite features of SketchUp Pro is the solid tools.
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