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<\/a><\/p>\nThat’s a picture of a Sketchup<\/a> model made from a hinge by Matthew Miller<\/a>\u00a0and a gate by Adam J<\/a>. Having fooled around with Sketchup for a couple of hours, I did wonder if it would have been easier to go outside and find a real gate. But, I got there in the end.<\/p>\n With the gate in its closed and latched position, everything is true and square. Here’s a picture of the hinged end of the gate, without its gatepost. The top hinge is directly above the bottom one, so this gate will open level, not rising.<\/p>\n The surfaces marked “horizontal” and “vertical” in the picture are, not surprisingly, vertical and horizontal. This is true for ordinary gates and for rising gates too.<\/p>\n Here is the gate modified to make it rising.<\/p>\n The gate hasn’t moved 1mm from the previous picture. Only the bottom hinge has moved<\/em>. I added the white spacer screwed to the gate, and I drilled a different hole in the gatepost to match. The whole bottom hinge has moved out and left compared to the previous picture. But the gatepost is still vertical and the gate is still all vertical. Because of the slight offset of the hinges, they should be twisted a little so pins of the two hinges line up exactly straight (but tilted). However, this sort of gate hinge is usually made very loose, and the hinges work fine with the hinges out of line. If I’m being very pedantic, I twist everything to line up precisely. I find that easier to do with a power drill in my hand than I do with Sketchup \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n As a reminder from the\u00a0previous blog post<\/a>, what I’m trying to avoid with this design is this:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>click the picture to enlarge<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n