How do you get the through tenons to cut a mortise on the back of the post?
I notice that you don't have a face on the end of the tenons, so I took that off,but still won't cut a face on the back.

Starting a new thread for this.

I'm going to carry on being picky here.
In the shop drawings, the timbers do not "roll" through the 4 views, they are rolling backwards in relation to the views.

For example, the layout face in the top position could become the bottom face in the second position, so that the timber is visually rolling down the page.

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Mark:

Don't worry about being picky - I'm alway open to suggestions.

The way the timbers "roll" is as if it were made of cardboard, and you "unfolded" it. Or take your shop drawings, and fold them between the faces to make a rectangular tube, and the faces will be correct. So the top _face_ is ajacent to the top _edges_ of the side views.

That's just what's intuitive to me. I've worked with Deitrichs prints, and they always felt backwards to me. I suppose I could make this a configuration option. Does anyone else have a preference? CB.

I get it... I've been doing plans in roll method for a while now, but I'll see if my brain can grasp the cardboard concept.
Making it a config option would be great if possible.

That should be pretty straightforward. In the mean time, if you are feeling adventurous, you can change it yourself. Just edit the file tf.rb, and on line 650 add a minus sign:

change this:
ra = 90.degrees

to this:
ra = -90.degrees

and then restart sketchup. CB.

That was an adventure!, wow there is a lot of stuff in that file.
The .rb file did not want to open for me, so I forced it into word pad and searched around till I found the spot. The lines are not numbered when I open the rubies in word pad.
Thanks for the info CB.

Actually, something I've been thinking about would be to change the 'Repaint Face' ruby to act more like a paint primary and secondary face tool. Double click on the face to set the primary (perhaps giving it a color) and follow by a single click on an adjacent face (again, another color) to call it secondary. These would then orient in the shop drawing as the middle two faces - primary on top, secondary below.

I'm working with something similar as a graphic that is built into my timbers. Not quite there yet - but essentially crow's foot registration marks that point to the layout arris. makes placing that timber in the mind when looking at the drawing much easier.

Mike: I'll take a look at that after sunriver. CB.