SketchUp Post

I probably spent a total of five hours on building my SketchUp model. I had some difficulty getting the dimensions to line up just right. I found that I would type things into sketch up, knowing how long something needed to be based of what added up on my calculator, and then when I put it together with other parts of the model it would be off by something like 1/32 of a inch. 
I ended up making the doors first and then copying them onto the model once it was built. This was helpful because it allowed me to see how all the different parts fit together. I did the same with the legs so that I could see them separately. For the metal grid part of the door I was able to find a fence type of thing in the 3-D warehouse. I discovered that if I "exploded" it I could erase the parts of it I did not need and make it small enough to fit my model. This worked better than the "scale"  tool which did not keep the grid at the same ratio, but shrank the size of the spaces between lines and the lines themselves, making them all too close together and too small.