FreeFor everyone
Planter box in 3D
Draw a planter box from one plank 150 mm wide: a floor with a hole for the water, two ends with holes for a rope handle, and a front and a back. Then make it for the windowsill or the garden.
Three short lessons to take at your own pace. Watch each step as often as you like. Nothing to download, no account.
- Lessons
- 3
- Time
- about 35 minutes
- Points to win
- 450
0 of 3 lessons passed
The lessons
New boards in yellow
- 1
Lesson 1, 10 minutes
The floor, with a hole for the water
Start the planter: a floor 450 long and 150 wide, from 15 mm board, with a hole 20 across in the middle so the water can drain out.
- 2
Lesson 2, 15 minutes
The ends, with holes for a rope
Stand an end on the floor, 120 wide and 150 high, with a hole 20 across near its top for a rope handle. Copy it for the other end.
- 3
Lesson 3, 10 minutes
The front and the back
Close the planter: a front 450 long and 150 high on the floor's front edge, against the ends, and a copy of it along the back.
Points and levels
100 points for each lesson you pass, and 50 more when it's right the first time you check.
- Seedlingfrom 0 points
- Growerfrom 150 points
- Gardenerfrom 300 points
The keys you'll use
Keys and axes
Tools
- RRectangle
- PPush/Pull
- CCircle
- MMove
- 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).