SketchUp - 2x4 Porch Swing - 095

all right this is the bench that I've been making for several years now and uh it's about it's a 48 in bench and I've always wanted to make this into some type of porch swing uh I really like the angled legs I don't really care for straight legs or straight arms I really like the angled uh look and you know 15° this is perfect for me so recently I was asked to make a bench and figured it would be or make a swing and I figured it'd be a great time to do so so this is what I've came up with it keeps the same 15 Dee theme going uh I've added an extra slat in both the front and also the top and of course I've got four eyebolts to suspend this from the porch it's all half flap construction and it should be a very quick very easy very budget friendly project so uh stick around and I'll show you how I made this in SketchUp all right I'm going to start this project with the slats so R for rectangle from the origin and I'm going to go 3.5x 1.5 for a standard 2x4 P for push pull this direction 48 in space bar triple click G for component enter M for move control brings up your plus sign and I'm going to go from this corner along the red axis 3.625 that allows the 3 and 1/2 in plus 1/8 of an inch spacing and I'm going to press X4 enter which duplicates this copy times 4 now I want to make set of slats going up the back so let's just first select everything rotate from this point this direction 105° but I'm going to press control to bring up the addition sign M for move from down here to this point and let's see I need to move these eighth of an inch this way so I have a nice spacing in between so let's go with tet tape measure and across one of these edges I can drop a guideline which will allow me to move along that guideline .125 I actually want to add one more slide up here so I'm going to select it m for move move control brings up your addition sign and I want to snap from this point over here that way I keep the spacing already already there there we go I'm going to have six slats on back and five on bottom so now I can build the arm and what I'm going to do is basically use the T for tape measure to make a couple guidelines and just draw from there so the arm pieces are going to be 3 in wide and let's see I need to guide here and then go down 3 in right there right there I'm going to take both of these M for move control brings up copy copy both of these guides over here grab one of these M for move control brings up copy and I'm going to go three plus a 4 in spacing so I need to go up here 7 in now this just outlined everything that I'm going to do so I can use my L command to just draw in everything this particular one is this horizontal piece on bottom is just going to be flush right here P for push pole this direction distance of 1.5 that's a standard thickness of a tube four space bar triple click G for component enter L for line let's draw another one right here P for pull this direction and I've already got my distance here space bar triple click G for component enter Alpha line over here to here just connecting some dots P for push pull this direction right there space bar triple click G component enter L line and this one's going to be a little bit funny shaped P for push pull right there space bar triple click G for component enter now that's the arms I just need to cut out for the half lap so I can delete my guides and which pieces do we want to show up on the half laap I want to see the horizontal pieces on the outside of the Swing so let's first remove let's first remove the vertical pieces so double click and we can use l for line to just draw in these half laps using the horizontal pieces as as reference P for Push Pull we're going to go in 75 in enter in 75 in enter get out of that part over here Alpha line P for Push Pull whoops P for Push Pull in 75 in in. 75 in space bar all right now I'm going to hide the rest to this so I can see the inside now we pushed in the verticals on the other side so now we need to push in the horizontals L for line tracing out our guides real quick P for Push Pull in 75 in push this in 75 in same thing on bottom a little bit of repetition here L for line and Trace Trace out our little guides here p for Push Pull whoops I wasn't in my part there we go Alpha line P for Push Pull in 75 in push it in 75 in space bar get out of that and now we have some nice half flap joints as you can see all right so the slats need something to rest up against and for that I'm just going to r a rectangle and make a 2X two that I can just screw to the bottom so 1.5 by 1.5 enter P for Push Pull and I want to go this direction I'm not sure where I want to stop as of yet because I want to connect it to the other one so let's just stop it right there and don't make it a component yet so now we need to uh we need to go down this way with a 2X two and this is an angled face as far as the origin of the drawing so I'm going to use my T for tape measure and go 1.5 this way and along this face 1.5 and then also right here so now I've got a little rectangle I can trace out with the L command there we go let's delete these little guides real quick P for Push Pull and I'm actually going to to back up P Push Pull there we go back actually going to go further than the piece and use the L for line command to just chop it off right at the bottom now I have a good mounting location for the back slats triple click G for component enter now we never made this one a component so we can still P for push pull this face to this point Alpha line whoops too far Alpha line Connect the Dots here P for Push Pull we're going to push it all the way back to this Edge now we can delete that line delete that line there's another line inside the part that I should delete but no one can see it so I'm not going to double triple click rather G for component enter and now we have a mounting location for the seat slats all my seat slots and back slots are going to be secured from the bottom so there's no screw heads on top and and these are just going to be screwed in and glued as well so now let's edit unhide all let's unhide our slats and they fit in just as planned so we can use a window to select just the leg assembly or just the arm assembly rather M for move control brings up your plus sign come over here and we dragged it across the green axis it is in in the wrong orientation so let's flip it along on the green Direction and that's pretty much it there's not much else to this although I do want to put in the eye lags real quick the eyebolts so let's go to file import and I've already downloaded an eyebolt off the internet so I can just open this and drop it in my part now let's rotate this so that it is in the correct orientation let's go like so and let's go like so and for move I'm just going to grab it on that part around the piece somewhere and drop it like that now when I put this into the into the swing I want to go through the arm assembly and through this two by so let's go something like that and then from this Direction Let's Center it on the front arm piece here M for move control brings up copy and I can copy another one up here somewhere something like that and looking down this 2 by two I can move it along this direction so that it is going through the back support into this 2x two now we've got this side complete we can control select both of these M for move control brings up the plus sign and go from this outside point to that outside point we moved it along the green axis so we can whoops I move I deselected what I didn't mean to deselect those select that control select that right click flip along green Direction now they're a little bit too far out out so let's move them and yeah something like that that works so there we go uh the inexpensive easy to make porch swing so let's make this yellow real quick something like that there it is very quick very easy porch swing