Remember this step's location; you are going to come back and repeat these steps. Select the 2D line tool and click on the "Snap to midpoint" snap located in the snap toolbar:
Then click on the left side of the rectangle midpoint, a red triangle should appear in that place:
Once you have clicked there, activate the "Snap to midpoint" snap again, and click on the other side of the 3D rectangle's midpoint. You should end up with a line looking like this:
Then draw a 2D line from the above left corner down to the midpoint:
We are going to draw another 2D line, but first activate the "Snap to midpoint" snap. Click in the middle of the newly drawn 2D line:
Then activate the "Snap to perpendicular" snap as circled in the picture below:
Then go to the other side of the rectangle and click at the 90 degree sign as shown in the picture below:
You should end up with another line like this:
Then find the centre of that by drawing 2 lines intersecting each other from the corners of the 2 lines going across the rectangle. I have done this a lot in my tutorials and the picture below shows what you should have:
Great, remember how I told you to remember a certain step's location? Well we are going to repeat from that step to the one before this step, but this time on another 3D rectangle with dimensions as shown below:
Once done, you should have something that looks like this now:
Now it's time to join the handles up with these rectangles. Adjust your view until you can see your handle's X formed by the 2 lines.
Then select the 3D move tool, select a handle (doesn't matter which one, but make sure you only select ONE handle), press ENTER and set the base point as the intersection of the 2 2D lines of the handle.
Now your handle should be moving with your mouse, adjust your view so you can see the intersection of the lines of the first 3D rectangle that you drew earlier.
Then click at the intersection:
And now your first rectangle should look like this:
Do the same and join up the second handle with the second rectangle. You should have something like this now:
Now select the fillet tool. Input "t" and press ENTER and press ENTER again for TRIM:
On the first rectangle (the bigger one) select the bottom edge:
Even though the entire object was highlighted, only the edge will be selected. For the fillet radius, input 3 and press ENTER.
Now select the 4 edges on the rectangle that surround the handle (be careful that you don't select the 2D lines that we drew before):
Then press ENTER to execute the tool. Now your rectangle is nicely rounded off:
Fillet the other rectangle exactly how I showed you just now.
Now you should be left with this:
Moving on, activate the 3D move tool; select both the handle and the panel of the smaller desk draw.
Now for the base point specify one of the lower corners of the panel, but that corner cannot be a filleted corner:
The smaller panel + handle should be moving with your mouse. For the next point click on top corner of the bigger panel. That corner cannot be filleted as well. It also must be on the same side of your smaller panel's base point (if you chose the bottom left corner, you would choose the top left corner of the bigger panel, don't worry it will snap into place):
Now you should have something like this:
Adjust your view so you are facing the back if the panels if you aren't:
Select the 3D box tool once again, click on the top right hand corner (the one in the picture below):
Input the width of the rectangle as 50 and the length 100 then press ENTER:
For the depth, click on the bottom left corner (the un-filleted one) and it will adjust itself:
Now we have something like this (I've adjusted the view):
Create another 3D box using the top left corner of the desk:
Make the width 105 and the length 150:
For the height, specify 10 and press ENTER
Currently we should have this (don't mind the 2D lines):
Next, use the bottom right corner of the newly created rectangle as a snap and create a 3D box that is 105 wide and 10 long:
For the height, just use the bottom corner of the rectangle (NOT the filleted one) and click there. It will adjust itself to it's level:
We should have this so far:
We are almost there, adjust the view so you see the back of the desk:
I'm going to create a panel for the back. The length will be 90 because 150 - 10 - 50 = 90. For the width input 5 and press ENTER. Use the top right corner of where the 2 rectangles touch:
For the height input 35 and press ENTER.
Now you should have something like this:
Ok, pull out the fillet tool and trim the edges pointed out in the picture below with a radius of 3 like we did with the panels (NOTE: You cannot fillet them all in one go):
Once you filleted all these edges, fillet these ones as well:
Now we should have something that looks like this:
Well, I guess there is one thing left to do, open the materials panel by right clicking at the top of the tools palette and selecting “materials”
Here is my desk:
