I draw the curve I want on graph paper, then transfer the coordinates to SketchUp, guide point by guide point. I have figured out a way to bludgeon out a solution. Bob, you make it sound easy so I'll give it a try later. I want to get to do some woodworking today, so I was trying to avoid the prospect of spending a lot of time figuring out the download part and then learning how the extension works. I have it running in the background for reference when I am using SketchUp. Bob Lang's eBook is very helpful and I'll put in a plug for it here (no charge Bob). The price is that it has a learning curve and since I use it infrequently I usually have to re-learn quite a bit. So SketchUp is a real boone in that regard. But I cannot for the life of me draw anything that is 3 dimensional on a piece of paper. I can draw 2 D on graph paper quickly and accurately, and I don't have to boot up the pencil. I find SketchUp to be a blessing and a curse, about 1/3 blessing and 2/3 curse. Yes Jean, I am trying to do curves like your examples. Some methods are better than others depending on what you wanna do. There's different ways to make curves in Sketchup, which is a very poor tool IMO. I thought you wanted to make something like this in Sketchup :
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