Steve, Chris, Sabrina, DLM,
Thanks for the well thought out responses!

It's really easy to change dimensions on this model since almost all 
dimensions are parameterized and/or/sometimes related to other 
dimensions. Of course it could end up looking a little funny. See 
attached.  :-)

The real desk is one that somebody used at a former employer of mine. 
During breaks I'd go around measuring things to feed my POV enthusiasm 
at home.* This desk seemed like a nice target since it lends itself well 
to primitive based modeling.  Years later I saw a slightly updated (they 
changed the drawer handle, and reduced the radius on the drawer bevels) 
version of this desk in a store.  I couldn't believe I was looking at 
somethig so ordinary and plain yet obscure and familiar to me.  The new 
handle was probably anodized aluminum in an arc shape with a radius 
which gets thicker in the middle... i.e. a shere sweep and 2 cylinders 
that hold it to the drawer-face.

I think almost all of this desk is partical board. - It has a noticable 
seam in the very-thin lamination just above the bevel on the top.   The 
style of the drawer faces with those top/bottom round bevels seems like 
something I've seen on any number of cabinets...

I've found the manufacturer.  I guess they still make this desk and even 
a wood-grain version of it.  Now I'm trying to figure out if it'd be 
worth contacting them and if that would make things sticky for no 
reason.  I doubt if they have anybody there who's been asked this kind 
of question before.  I could be wrong but I have a feeling manufacturers 
of scale model airplanes don't get permission from the manufacturers of 
the real ones.

Charles


*...and because things got re-arranged there *so* often that I thought 
'what if I made a 3D model of this place to make it easier?'.


PS  Currently I have the text "Desk design is presumed copyright of the 
manufacturer.  Model is copyrighted by me." at the top of the file.

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