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Learn professional techniques which make even complex projects easy to model in SketchUp.
Course Highlights
- Update: link to free SketchUp basic lectures added February 2018
- Bring your design ideas to life in 3D with SketchUp
- Learn to try out different ideas quickly and easily by making edits to your models
- Go way beyond the free videos and learn how to build SketchUp models the professional way
- Cut drawing times in half, literally, with a simple mirror method
- Learn why its so important to build your model in situ
- Learn how you can model even complex shapes with a simple technique
- Learn to draw something once, and use it again and again and again, saving hours
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
9 Topics
Welcome to SketchUp for Woodworkers
Design Ideas; doing a bit research before you start
Free basic SketchUp course available here...
Viewing your model
Components and Groups
Positioning Objects in SketchUp
Changing Sizes
Changing Colour and Number
Keyboard shortcuts; a few of the most popular ones which can save lots of time.
6 Topics
Building a toolbox: Introduction
Outline Box; start the design process in SketchUp with overall shape and size
Use your outline design as a template to start the construction of details
Front and Side Worksheet
Setting up dovetails is easy and adds realistic detail to your outline design
Set Up Dovetails Worksheet
19 Topics
Cutting dovetails; if only it was this quick and easy in the workshop!
Cutting Dovetails Worksheet
Marking out the sockets; get out the virtual pencil to finish your dovetails
Marking Out Worksheet
Making the top: create a top with a tongue using the Push/Pull tool
Making the Top Worksheet
Cutting the top grooves by drawing rectangles on the top and pasting in place
Cutting Top Grooves Worksheet
Cutting the bottom grooves using a great mirroring technique
Cutting Bottom Grooves Worksheet
Quiz 3; editing components
Make the bottom of the toolbox in one easy move and edit!
Creating the Bottom Worksheet
Splitting the side or get the virtual saw out
Splitting the Side Worksheet
Splitting the front or a bit more cutting with the virtual saw!
Splitting the Front Worksheet
Creating the linings; more drawing once using twice
Creating the Linings Worksheet
4 Topics
Main tray side and front: streamlining the Copy and Flip techniques
Main tray dovetails plus a few keyboard shortcuts
Main tray bottom and grooves: introducing the powerful Intersect Faces option
Adding dividers and what on earth is a tangent arc?
3 Topics
Small tray sides and building a grid with guidelines
Model the small tray dovetails
Small tray bottom and grooves finishing (almost) the construction
6 Topics
Holes in the main tray ends
Filling in the jigsaw pieces
There's more than one way to chamfer a top. Two in fact.
Rounding over the outer edges of the main tray
Starting the finger pull
Finishing the finger pull
7 Topics
Styles - An overview of setting up and editing styles
Styles - Lines (or Edges as SketchUp calls them)
Applying materials
Working with wood grain
Scenes; how to use scenes to display your model including animation
Adding Dimensions
Output: some of the great alternative ways to present and share your model
1 Topic
Bonus lecture: additional drawing resources at my LineMine website
SketchUp for Woodworkers: bring your designs to life in 3D
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