This has become my standard over the years, as I can create different size and shape tables pretty quickly.

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Hey Tyson, I often watch your videos to learn things or compare methods. I was interested to see how you progress in your iterations. And for once I'm not very enthusiastic about your method. When you draw a table this way, it's not easy to calculate the right dimensions. You constantly have to divide or multiply by two. What's more, in the end, when you want to produce a cut sheet with opencutlist, you first have to redraw the table with the full dimensions of the components. More wasted time. My method for iterations is to Create components / instances of each part. Create a component of the entire object (here, the table) Duplicate the entire object component And here's the trick: Lock the first entire object component Now that the entire object is locked, sketchup will systematically warn you when you ant to modify a copy or anything inside the copy. Just select "make unique" and you're good to go.

Hey Tyson, Boneyards for the win buddy. Nice to see you still producing great content. I like this process for design iterations and use it a lot myself.

Thanks for acknowledging the freedom from being so rigorous all the time. I appreciate that.

This is a brainstorming philosophy. Whatever it takes to iterate ideas quickly... Once this is done then it can be adapted for actual parts and accuracy. I do near the same process.

The normal method for symmetrical objects. In 3ds max, this is done with the symmetry modifier))

Where can I get that cap ?!

this is exactly how I work most of the time