This bookcase will reside in front of two windows and will serve first as storage space for books and second as a piece of furniture to sit upon. The design phase is where I am with my current project, a window seat bookcase for my daughter.

This means I can work out all the needed joinery during design eliminating virtually all guess work during construction. For me, SketchUp gives me the ability to design a project to a very high level. Now I design almost exclusively in SketchUp. In my early days of woodworking I used graph paper and pencil to draw furniture projects to scale. One of the fun aspects of this hobby is furniture design. I have a lot to learn and it is great to have an active community forum to ask questions.I have been a woodworker for more than 30 years. The sketchup class videos I purchased was developed in 2012 so there are bound to be differences in the way it works today. Thanks a lot! Thanks to DanR for the tip on pressing the ‘Ctrl’ key once and not needing to hold the control key down while using the ‘Move’ tool to make the copy. I was then able to use the ‘Move’ tool to move up a copy of the component bottom which will be the top of my cabinet. After reading your comments, today I tried just clicking three times slowly and then right clicked, selected ‘Make Component’ and made the component. Not sure if you have to when using the ‘G’ key? I avoided the triple click in the first place because I found it hard to do 3 rapid clicks and still know how many times I clicked. I don’t recall if I was holding the control key when I pressed the ‘G’ key. What I did was I single clicked the rectangle and then used the G shortcut which then prompted me with the make component box. After reading Box’s comment that I single clicked instead of triple clicked the cabinet bottom I realized that was what I exactly did.

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