Hopefully this works. I did a very short video on how to use the protractor tool to make a mitered corner. It’s a rather feeble attempt—I’m not sure why my voice is ahead of the video action. But it is what it is. Hopefully it will be helpful. Thanks for looking.
I’m sure this won’t be any great shakes – but I thought I’d try my hand at making a simple trinket box that I could maybe, possibly, in the near future——someday make. OK—- so I’m feeling a little sorry for myself—- it’ll pass. Any how – this will give me the opportunity to play around a little bit with the protractor tool and once I get a lid on—the rotator tool to move the lid up and down. Another thing I want to explore...
Or as done as it’s going to be. So here’s the finish up. The last entry had me down to the drawers and putting in the bottom. This shot shows where I put in some guidelines to set the bottom. I hide the side so I could see where to guide the bottom. I also tried to do the move by using the x-ray function (found under view on the program’s menu bar). You can see here where I moved the bottom in – notice the inference dot. The next two shots j...
I’m still working on this project and the drawers are coming closer. As with anything there are numerous ways to get to the same destination. DaveR, who has the patience of a saint, has been trying to show me how to do this project. See this entry http://lumberjocks.com/jocks/Betsy/blog/5575 I’ve been struggling with this technique – not sure why – but it is what it is. Long and short I came up with an alternate method that probably won’t work if I were ...
Heading into the home stretch. I redrew some of my table to point out some things I was learning. However, I left off on my hall table with a few problems (OK – more than a few) that I’m working on fixing. Specifically, I need to redraw my back apron because somewhere along the line I erased the back edge and did not make it a component. Because I did not make it a component, when I drew in my drawer runners – the runners broke the face of the apron. Secondly, I redrew my dr...
I have the Google Sketchup for Dummies book and it gives a website to go to for tips, etc. It’s listed in the book as www.dummies.com/go/SketchUpFD, but I could never get that site to work for me. So I ended up tonight just e-mailing the author, Aidan Chopra, for help. He sent me a different link and I wanted to share it with all of you. www.sketchupfordummies.com I’ve looked at a great deal of the videos and they are well worth the time to view. Happy sketching!
OK – I know I’m a slow learner – but I finally got the scale tool. One thing DaveR pointed out that I honestly did not see before is that when you select a tool from the tool bar – an explanation of what that tool does appears in the lower left corner of the window screen. If there is a toggle option it will also show in the explanation. So here’s my short video on how I used the scale tool. On to making the joints. Thanks for looking. As you can se...
I’ve been wondering how some of you make videos to post on the net. Scott (Chicowoodnut) put me onto http://sourceforge.net/projects/camstudio/?abmode=1 It’s a pretty cool looking program. I actually managed to do a very short video on SU. What surprised me when I played it back was that it had sound! I had no idea my laptop had a built in microphone. So if you play this video – you’ll hear all the typing going on but nothing else. I highly suggest turning the sound...
Here’s a little tidbit that I recognized tonight while drawing my guidelines for my drawers. Notice on the first shot that my red inference dot is on the middle of the red axis and I’ve got a dotted line showing where my guideline will be when I release my mouse. This next shot shows where I start on the “origin” (yellow inference dot) and move up the green axis. At first I thought that because I was moving on the green axis line itself – I did n...
So I’m home from the church concert – WOW – kinds of revs you up. So decided to try to learn a little bit more on the SU front. I’m probably the slowest learner on this type of stuff – but no one can say I’m not persistent! So here I go. This is my first side – which shows the length (10.25); width (.5); and height (3.5) and I’ve made it a component. This next shot shows the second side having been copied and moved to it’s ...
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