I wanted to share with you all that I have been working on learning the techniques and tricks of Sketchup. I followed the directions from this training website:
http://sketchupforwoodworkers.com/
From watching these tutorials, I was able to make this model of a new bathroom vanity that I will be building in the near future for our 1/2 bath off of my newly remodeled kitchen.
I also have attached a screen shot from my laptop of the software
Here is detail that by following the techniques from the tutorial can be easily made.
I do have to admit that I have been an AutoCAD user for many years with my work but I had never really taken the time to learn sketchup..the free addition…but after a couple of days, I have become pretty good at it.
I would like to hear from you, your thoughts on this software..good or bad
Thanks
Steve
-- Measure twice and cut once.....Steve Lien
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nomercadies
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#1 posted 05-01-2013 03:20 AM
Nice pictures. Thanks so much for the website. I am dabbling too, but am not nearly as far along as you. Nice stuff.
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Don "Dances with Wood" Butler
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#2 posted 05-01-2013 11:21 AM
Among many helpful sites, I strongly recommend a visit to this site:
http://www.finewoodworking.com/blog/design-click-build
There you’ll find some useful and sometimes surprising help with this excellent software.
Yes for the free edition, too.
ddwwb
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Alongiron
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#3 posted 05-01-2013 11:27 AM
Don and James..Thanks for that information…lots of good stuff!
-- Measure twice and cut once.....Steve Lien
Sandra
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#4 posted 05-01-2013 11:49 AM
Thanks for this post. I have not had the courage to try Sketchup yet, but it’s on the list.
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SebringDon
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#5 posted 05-01-2013 11:58 AM
Sketchup is awesome. All my projects start there, unless they start on a napkin because I’m not home. I even use the Cutlist plugin to generate a shopping list, and use the cutlist printout to kit up and manage the project as well. I’d played with it for house design and the like, but it wasn’t until I found the site referenced in the OP, http://sketchupforwoodworkers.com/ that it fell into place as a woodworker’s tool.
-- Don
andy_P
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#6 posted 05-01-2013 08:29 PM
I have been trying to learn Sketchup for quite some time. My progress is almost nil. There is something I am missing or it has just been too long since I was in school. I don’t know what I am going to need to ever learn it. Thanks for that new link though, Steve. I’ll give it a look see.
-- Wood is a gift from God/Nature that maintains its beauty forever via the hand of a woodworker.
Doug Scott
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#7 posted 05-03-2013 03:45 AM
Call me old fashion, I took machical drawing and blueprint reading for two year ,before computers and I can still draw it out faster than what I can on the computer. Lots of the stuff I build I do without a print ( Using my brain )
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hjt
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#8 posted 07-18-2013 03:52 AM
I’m looking at this and saying to self “holy crap… his FIRST SU drawing…” Then at the end he lets the cat out of the bag – Auto-cad for years!
I dabble with it, but am not proficient at it at all. Come to think of it – the same goes for my woodworking too!
-- Harold
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