Sketchup Woodworking Drawing

Join thousands of woodworkers who have finally gotten over the hump of learning sketchup to design and layout their next woodworking project.

Sketchup woodworking drawing. There are a number of extensions for sketchup that will create cutlists. When i showed him he was amazed. There s a better way of course. You will need the sketchup software to download this drawing and its freely available online.

I know a woodworker and sketchup user who would draw his project and then sit down with the tape measure tool paper and pencil and make up his cutlist. Now a cutlist isn t that difficult to create by hand. This is easily accomplished by rendering the model in isometric view aka parallel projection view with just the click of a menu command. Creating compound miter joints.

Plans pricing try out design variations in 3d. Sketchup for woodworkers the internet s free leading online resource for learning sketchup that is built and run by woodworkers for woodworkers. How to use google sketchup for woodworking intro. We do not provide support for this software.

And although the rules are for woodworkers they can benefit newcomers doing any kind of design work in sketchup. The digital jobsite 60 133 views. Six rules for success for sketchup beginners. In this video i ll teach you how to navigate around in a model.

With sketchup success for woodworkers any woodworker can download sketchup and be drawing helpful detailed woodworking plans like a pro in no time at all. These rules embody basic principles to help beginners who find sketchup frustrating. This is a link to a google 3d sketchup drawing for a large workbench made from hardwood and plywood with a full 4 x 8 work surface. In this tutorial learn how to get started and begin modeling in sketchup as a woodworker.

An affordable simple and powerful 3 d design program sketchup can be used to create models and plans for anything a creative mind can imagine especially simple to elaborate woodworking projects and plans. Sketchup for woodworkers who use cad layers in sketchup aren t like layers in cad if you re used to drawing in autocad or a similar program you ll have to adjust to the way layers work in sketchup. Sketchup is an easy to use 3d modeler that lets you think through and pre build projects on the computer before you tackle them in real life. Shop drawings and cut lists sketchup for woodworkers when a 3 d model is completed in perspective view that same model is used to create scaled shop drawings with dimensions.