Building a Pergola: Modifying Components and Adding Details

Let's continue modifying and building our pergola. So let's modify our component axes into this component of our column and let's place our component axes right in the center point of the space plate.

And now I want to move this component to the center point of here. Let's double check that this is centered. From here to here is 8 inches.

From here to here is 8 inches. So that's where we want our base plate to go and we will copy from this reference point here along red to this reference point here and then from here we'll copy from this reference point here and then do the same thing from here to here. Let's make all four of these components a group.

Right click make group. Let's double click into this group and let's add in our beam and this beam is going to be a 4 × 10 but in actual dimensions our height would be 9 and 1 quarter inches and our width would be 3.5 inches. Make sure that we draw this along the correct axes and then let's push pull this all the way across to this point right here.

That's at 24 and 11 inches. Let's push pull this element out 6 inches and then this portion out 6 inches and then we will triple click right click make group. That does not need to be a component we just make it a group and then let's modify this material and do a create a new material and call this wood beam and select our wood drain texture.

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Hit okay and then we will paint we this is going in the correct orientation so we do not need to modify that and then we have our our wood beam for a pergola. We'll hit escape to close out of this group. One thing that I do notice is that this is actually a little bit too low for our trim.

We want this to go above our trim so I want to quickly just move this up and to see what that distance is and that's three and five eighths so let's move it to be around four inches just right just above that trim. We'll double click into this group and we'll move this beam up four inches because I modified I made each of these a component if I was to modify one it'll modify all of them so I'll move this up four inches and then I will make this column slightly taller to be four inches and you can see that it made that change in all of those components and now I want to double click into this group select all and make hit our move key hit control on my keyboard to make a copy and copy this out 10 feet and now let's modify this beam to create more decorative endings so we'll double click on this portion we'll pull this out one foot and we'll pull this portion out one foot we'll add a reference line from the top and we'll go down two inches and we'll go out the side eight inches actually let's go out one foot one foot and then from this side we'll go one foot and then let's draw a line to connect from this intersection to this intersection and from this intersection to this intersection and push pull to auto fold delete that portion and that portion I feel that this is a little bit too small so I can actually select this this edge right here and then holding down shift to also select this edge go to my move tool I can actually move this down to a comfortable spot let's make let's move it down two inches now we'll go to edit delete guides and close out now you can see that I have this nice kind of trim element for my pergola our pergola is definitely coming along it's looking great I will save my file next let's create our joist for above our trellis so let's double click into this group and we're going to add a two by six joist so we'll start from this end right here and we'll draw a rectangle orbiting down so we can see in the green direction we'll type in 1.5 comma 5.5 for one and a half inches by five and a half inches hit ENTER so this is going to be our joist we are going to pull this out 12 feet and then let's do a reference line from the top of here to go down two and then from here to go eight and we'll draw a line here to create this little chamfered edge and delete that and then we will triple click right click make group and now let's create our supports so modeling in this in this area let's draw a rectangle from from here down we want this to be two and a half inches down so we can see that it's it's going in across first and down second so we want this to be a little bit smaller than one and a half so let's make it one and a quarter so 1.25 inches comma two inches deep and then we will double click this and let's move this over half of this so 1.8 inch and then let's extrude this portion out one quarter inch and then let's click this top edge and then make a copy go down one quarter inch and then actually this is too thick let's make this 1.8 inch so we'll go we'll move this in 1.8 inch and move this up 1.8 inch move this back and now we will move this out in the same same dimensions two inches let's make this slightly rounded right here so we can go use our arc tool and this time doesn't have to be perfectly accurate we can we could select here and then go from here to here and find where we get that magenta where it'll auto fill and then push pull that and then hitting e on your keyboard erase and now i can triple click right click make component and we will call this one l bracket create double click into this component and let's create another bolt this time we don't need to make these bolts as component but let's add some reference lines from here to the center point from here to the center point from this point to the center point and from here to the center point let's triple click make group so we don't interfere with this geometry and let's go into our polygon tool and from this point here let's move this out three eights enter and then double click to do the same thing here three eighth inch enter we'll push pull this out three eight enter and then three eights enter let's make those actually slightly smaller one eighth inch one eighth inch so i made this now to be one quarter inch instead of one eighth inch so now i can triple click make group triple click make group edit delete guides and i will select all and then click an h to get this base metal material i can paint this that same material and then i want to select this point because this component in this group and right click make component and i want to call this pergola joist and i'll create so we need to make a we need to make a couple inside this component we want to make a duplicate of this base plate or this little l bracket so we'll move and hit control to toggle copy and we'll move this all the way out to here till it snaps onto that surface and then we'll do the same thing make a duplicate on this side along the green axis we'll flip along the green and then move this along the green snap right there and now let's paint this material this same wood i'll use my eyedropper tool to get this wood beam and we'll paint this that same material and now let's make an array of of these beams across so first let's move this four and three fourths over i've already determined what the ideal location is for each of these so you can just copy my dimensions and now let's make an make a duplicate my rain all of these across 10 and a half inches apart so we'll use our move and hit control toggle copy we'll type in 10.5 for 10 and a half inches and hit ENTER i'm not sure how many we need but let's just do more than enough so we can delete more let's type in times 30 and look at that i got a couple more than what i what i need we want this one to stop kind of roughly in the same spot and actually you know what i don't think that our range was very accurate and didn't space them evenly so let's go do something a little bit different let's let's undo that so typically you want to find a point where you know that each of these beams are the same distance apart you see from here to here those are eight feet from here to here eight feet and from here to here eight feet so let's go from a center point like right in the and we'll move and hold down shift to toggle lock in that red and then snap right to the center point of this and now let's do a a copy from here to here and we can see that that is eight feet so we can either have them let's say we divide that by eight so now these are if i if i do a measurement with a line tool i can measure that this from here is one foot i think that looks like a good spacing so let's continue with that same spacing actually let's make it a little bit denser let's let's undo that and let's go from you know from this point and toggle copy to here and we'll do divide 10 or we can divide 12 this dimension here is eight inches and i think that looks like a good good depth we can make a a duplicate from this point to here to come out a little bit over on that side and then let's do this from here to here which is eight inches and we'll do that times 25 and there we have our completed pergola we can do one final thing and we can modify our color so we can see that we have this wood in our model which is kind of we made this a little bit darker we can go into this our wood beam and we can select edit and we can actually do match color on screen and select the color that we would like to match we can do that for that color and then we can do the same for this material would column match color on screen and there we go so now we have more of a stained wood that matches the wood that we have on our clubhouse i will edit delete guides and now i will save my file and i will see you in the next video