This sketchup for woodworking blog will help you learn how to use sketchup to create models of your woodworking plans.
Woodworking sketchup tutorial. Sketchup has a few different areas. In this video i ll teach you how to navigate around in a model. When you first open up sketchup you ll get a window that allows you to set your template. David is a sketchup guru who does a lot of illustration and skethchup tutorial work for fine woodworking.
Sketchup is ideally suited for woodworkers because the 3 d model produces the documentation set we know as shop drawings and cut lists. Join thousands of woodworkers who have finally gotten over the hump of learning sketchup to design and layout their next woodworking project. In this tutorial learn how to get started and begin modeling in sketchup as a woodworker. I ll give you a real quick orientation of your workspace.
Sketchup for woodworkers the internet s free leading online resource for learning sketchup that is built and run by woodworkers for woodworkers. Sketchup tutorial 1 coffee table in this video my youngest daughter sai who is actually the sketchup expert and i will show you how to master some of the basics of google sketchup. Sketchup is an intuitive program with a short learning curve once you understand the basics of 3d modeling. He skips over how to layout landscapes staircases and roofs in favor of showing you how to make mortise and tenon and dovetail joints.
Let s look at 3 d modeling first shop drawings and cut lists second. Sketchup tutorials sketchup is a free 3d modeling program formerly owned by google and now owned by trimble. I ll also teach you the basics of. But sketchup could not be better suited for woodworking if it had been the only target on their list and the developers were all woodworkers.
Sketchup woodworking tutorial for beginners part 1 selecting a template.