PSeverin

I generally like it, but I question how the thrust of the legs intersects with the cloud-lift members under the table top. I think that the legs should hit the fattest part of the cloudlift perhaps stretching the width of fat transition from low to high so that it appears on each side of the legs. Well it's a suggestion. Maybe each of us has our own sense of how the parts should relate.

I like sketch-up for its ability to allow me to design; create a series of variations of a piece of furniture to try out various options. I often end up with models that are a long string of furniture that gradually transform from one form to another. It allows you to see what it would look like if the piece was higher, lower, fatter wider, doors one way other.

I'm not particularly interested in working out or showing complicated joints. I'm interested in what it will look like before committing the time and money to construct the project.

What I find interesting is that even with all the capabilities of the program to see everything, building with your hands brings surprises,. Opportunities arrive from picking up pieces and reacting to wood in hand that just can't be seen on a computer screen.

But isn't that what the Bauhaus was all about...to train designers who learned from being craftsmen and craftsmen who could do better if they learned how to design?

They look very nice from the rear. How about posting a picture with each chair rotated 90 degrees from the previous so that we could see how well they looked from the side and front.

Dovetails always seem to be made as you've drawn w/ a half pin at the top and bottom. But why. If the drawer face is left exposed it makes a not particularly pleasing pattern of different sized bars on the face that manages not to make a mark at the corner.

By accident I laid out the tails starting with a tail at top and bottom that grew in width as it moved toward the face. It would be as if you took your tails and flipped them front to back. Then I laid out a series of thin tails that make fat pins. The end pattern on the face is of a series of evenly spaced squares that start and stop at the corners.

I would attach a pdf file or a sketch model, but there seems to be no way to include them

Your skill with the program is far beyond mine, but I find sketch most useful as a tool to consider alternatives, slight variations and to convince myself that the project will be worth the effort to make it real. And even then, things change in the basement.