Then make it for real
Make a log store
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Log store in 3D
Draw a log store the way it's built: bearers on the ground and a floor with gaps for the air, a side at each end cut to slope to the back, slats across the back and a roof tipped 10° so the rain runs off behind.
Three lessons to take at your own pace. Watch each step as often as you like. Nothing to download, no account.
- Lessons
- 3
- Time
- about 45 minutes
- Points to win
- 450
0 of 3 lessons passed
The lessons
New boards in yellow
- 1
Lesson 1, 15 minutes
A floor on bearers
Lay three bearers on the ground, 1200 long, 50 wide and 75 high, 275 apart. Then nine floor boards across them, 600 long, 120 wide and 28 thick, 15 apart so the air gets under the logs.
- 2
Lesson 2, 15 minutes
Sides that slope to the back
Stand a side on each end of the floor, from 18 mm exterior plywood: 600 deep and 1100 high at the front, its top cut to slope down 106 to the back, so the rain runs off behind.
- 3
Lesson 3, 15 minutes
Slats at the back, and the roof
Fix eight slats across the back, 1200 long, 100 high and 22 thick, 20 apart, the bottom one level with the floor. Then a roof of 18 mm plywood, 1200 × 700, tipped down 10° to the back.
Make it for real
Points and levels
100 points for each lesson you pass, and 50 more when it's right the first time you check.
- Kindlingfrom 0 points
- Split logfrom 150 points
- Seasoned logfrom 300 points
The keys you'll use
Keys and axes
Tools
- RRectangle
- PPush/Pull
- LLine
- MMove
- QRotate
- SpaceSelect
- GMake Component (select the board first)
Axes: an arrow key locks the way you're drawing or moving
- →red axisleft and right: the width
- ←green axisfront and back: the depth
- ↑blue axisup and down: the height
- ShiftAlready moving along an axis? Hold Shift and it stays on it.
- CtrlWith Move: makes a copy (Option on a Mac)
- EscCancels what you're doing
Sizes: just type, they go in the Measurements box at the bottom right, then Enter. Two sizes: 1000,600 (1000;600 if your computer writes decimals with a comma).