Edges to Rubies The Complete SketchUp Tutorial

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Appendix M—Medallion in Floor

I used to just click on one of the hardwood floors. SketchUp sent in the carpenters. I was maybe hoping for north/south boards, but if the SketchUp carpenters laid east/west boards that was OK. After all, they worked fast and for free.

Then I asked the carpenters if they could do fancy stuff. "Sure! We're experts!" I asked them what they could do with a fifteen-foot square entrance hall. This was their answer:

Light hardwood floor with dark border and six-sided center medallion.

The Contest

Do your SketchUp carpenters just do plain floors? You should challenge them to do more!

Here are the American specs:

Fifteen-foot square hall
Foot-wide border, mitered corners
Six-sided, six-foot-wide, mitered center medallion
Edges between the light and dark woods, not within the dark

Outside the U.S.:

4.5m square hall
25cm-wide border, mitered corners
Six-sided, 1.8m-wide, mitered center medallion
Edges between the light and dark woods, not within the dark

You have five minutes.

You may try as often as you like.

Stop Reading!

Go back to The Contest. Try it. Use The Hints if you are really stuck.

The Hints

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