First Sketchup model

Nice pictures. Thanks so much for the website. I am dabbling too, but am not nearly as far along as you. Nice stuff.

-- Chance Four "Not Just a Second Chance"

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

-- Will trade wife's yarn for tools.

Don and James..Thanks for that information…lots of good stuff!

-- Measure twice and cut once.....Steve Lien

Thanks for this post. I have not had the courage to try Sketchup yet, but it’s on the list.

-- No, I don't want to buy the pink hammer.

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

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.

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 )

-- Furniture By Douglas, Comstock Park, MI

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