Then make it for real
Make a raised bed
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Raised bed in 3D
Draw a raised bed the way it's built: two rows of scaffold boards all round, a post in each corner and in the middle of each long side so the boards don't bow under the soil, and a capping on top to sit on while you weed.
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 50 minutes
- Points to win
- 450
0 of 3 lessons passed
The lessons
New boards in yellow
- 1
Lesson 1, 20 minutes
Two rows of boards all round
Stand an end board at each end of the bed, 900 long, 225 high and 38 thick, and a second row on top. Then the long boards between the ends, 1724 long, two rows at the front and two at the back.
- 2
Lesson 2, 15 minutes
Posts in the corners and the middle
Stand a post 50 × 50 and 450 high in each corner, inside the boards, and one in the middle of each long side, so the long boards don't bow out under the soil.
- 3
Lesson 3, 15 minutes
A capping to sit on
Lay a capping of decking boards on top, 120 wide and 28 thick, flush with the outside: 1800 long along the front and the back, 660 across each end between them.
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.
- Diggerfrom 0 points
- Sowerfrom 150 points
- Harvesterfrom 300 points
The keys you'll use
Keys and axes
Tools
- RRectangle
- PPush/Pull
- 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).