SketchUp for Woodworking - Google SketchUp Workshop: Modeling, Visualizing, and Illustrating - page 137

In creating this profile, I also divided the face into sections that represent
individual component parts of the cornice. These parts or layers (totally seven
in number) can now be extruded (minus the pendants) into solid lumber
components with the Push/Pull tool, as shown in Figure 8.2.
FiG 8.2 Extruded components.
I continued to add detail to the cornice by defining the turned pendants as
shown in Figures 8.3 and 8.4. The turned pendants were created in SketchUp
using the Follow Me tool. A pendant-shaped half face was created by the
trace-over process. A semicircular path was created with the axis at the origin
of the circle. I rotated the circular path 7.5° so that the midpoints of the circle
segments are aligned with the red axis. This ensures a clean Follow Me with a
quality flat face on the half-pendant. Since the pendant is so small, the pen-
dant shape and circular path should be scaled-up by a factor of 100 (SketchUp
does not handle small faces well). After selecting the circular path, pick the
Follow Me tool and click on the pendant shape. Figures 8.3 and 8.4 show the
steps in making pendants.
The arched and hollowed-out cove was created by making a shaped block
and then using the Intersect capability on the cove molding. An arch cut-out
tool was created using the Push/Pull tool with the face of the arch shape as
shown in Figure 8.5.
Place multiple copies of the cut-out tool spaced accurately into the solid cove
molding as shown in Figure 8.6.