SketchUp for Woodworkers: bring your designs to life in 3D

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Simon Rodway

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1 - Designing and drawing

1 - Welcome to SketchUp for Woodworkers.mp4

02:00

2 - Design Ideas doing a bit research before you start.mp4

03:37

3 - Free basic SketchUp course available here.html

4 - Viewing your model.mp4

05:35

5 - Components and Groups.mp4

03:39

6 - Positioning Objects in SketchUp.mp4

05:21

7 - Changing Sizes.mp4

07:56

8 - Changing Colour and Number.mp4

03:16

9 - Keyboard shortcuts a few of the most popular ones which can save lots of time.html

2 - Building a Toolbox 1 Outline design

10 - Building a toolbox Introduction.mp4

04:40

11 - Outline Box start the design process in SketchUp with overall shape and size.mp4

03:47

11 - TL-23-A-BARRON-TOOLBOX-MM-.pdf

12 - Use your outline design as a template to start the construction of details.mp4

03:40

13 - Front and Side Worksheet.html

14 - Setting up dovetails is easy and adds realistic detail to your outline design.mp4

05:58

15 - Set Up Dovetails Worksheet.html

3 - Building a toolbox 2 Carcass and Linings

16 - Cutting dovetails if only it was this quick and easy in the workshop.mp4

03:48

17 - Cutting Dovetails Worksheet.html

18 - Marking out the sockets get out the virtual pencil to finish your dovetails.mp4

04:54

19 - Marking Out Worksheet.html

20 - Making the top create a top with a tongue using the PushPull tool.mp4

02:47

21 - Making the Top Worksheet.html

22 - Cutting the top grooves by drawing rectangles on the top and pasting in place.mp4

03:49

23 - Cutting Top Grooves Worksheet.html

24 - Cutting the bottom grooves using a great mirroring technique.mp4

03:19

25 - Cutting Bottom Grooves Worksheet.html

26 - Make the bottom of the toolbox in one easy move and edit.mp4

02:30

27 - Creating the Bottom Worksheet.html

28 - Splitting the side or get the virtual saw out.mp4

02:56

29 - Splitting the Side Worksheet.html

30 - Splitting the front or a bit more cutting with the virtual saw.mp4

03:28

31 - Splitting the Front Worksheet.html

32 - Creating the linings more drawing once using twice.mp4

04:21

33 - Creating the Linings Worksheet.html

4 - Building a Toolbox 3 the main tray

34 - Main tray side and front streamlining the Copy and Flip techniques.mp4

03:02

35 - Main tray dovetails plus a few keyboard shortcuts.mp4

03:54

36 - Main tray bottom and grooves introducing the powerful Intersect Faces option.mp4

05:43

37 - Adding dividers and what on earth is a tangent arc.mp4

03:33

5 - Building a toolbox 4 Small Tray

38 - Small tray sides and building a grid with guidelines.mp4

02:56

39 - Model the small tray dovetails.mp4

03:30

40 - Small tray bottom and grooves finishing almost the construction.mp4

05:22

6 - Building a toolbox 5 Finishing off and refining the details

41 - Holes in the main tray ends.mp4

02:40

42 - Filling in the jigsaw pieces.mp4

04:49

43 - Theres more than one way to chamfer a top Two in fact.mp4

03:30

44 - Rounding over the outer edges of the main tray.mp4

03:32

45 - Starting the finger pull.mp4

05:08

46 - Finishing the finger pull.mp4

02:51

7 - Presentation and Output

47 - Styles An overview of setting up and editing styles.mp4

11:12

48 - Styles Lines or Edges as SketchUp calls them.mp4

07:13

49 - Applying materials.mp4

06:17

49 - gradient4b.zip

49 - gradient4b-v.zip

49 - gradient-1b.zip

49 - gradient-1b-v.zip

50 - Working with wood grain.mp4

08:25

50 - bubinga200.zip

50 - bubinga200-v.zip

50 - bubinga201.zip

50 - bubinga201-v.zip

50 - bubinga202.zip

50 - bubinga202-v.zip

50 - olive-ash-1s.zip

50 - olive-ash-1-90s.zip

50 - pine200.zip

50 - pine200-v.zip

51 - Scenes how to use scenes to display your model including animation.mp4

09:21

52 - Adding Dimensions.mp4

07:26

53 - Output some of the great alternative ways to present and share your model.mp4

08:24

8 - The next steps

54 - Bonus lecture additional drawing resources at my LineMine website.html

Description

Learn professional techniques which make even complex projects easy to model in SketchUp.

What You'll Learn?

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

Who is this for?

Anyone who wants to design small scale projects with SketchUp

Any woodworker who wants to present a project to clients and public in 3D

What You Need to Know?

A computer with either SketchUp Make or SketchUp Pro installed on it

A basic knowledge of SketchUp drawing and editing tools

SketchUp Make 2017 is still available as a free download, on the Sketchup website with /download/all added, then login

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Description
Let me teach you the basic methods I use in SketchUp as a professional illustrator and designer with 20 years experience in woodworking magazines!
I have drawn thousands of woodworking projects for magazines in the UK, US and Europe, and currently illustrate 2 top UK titles, Furniture and Cabinetmaking and Woodworking Crafts.
SketchUp has been a big part of this process. It is a great drawing program, and although its hard to find, you can still download the FREE version called SketchUp Make.
Just in case you are having trouble finding Sketch Make, the free version you can install on your computer, search for SketchUp Make in Google and follow the instructions. This is a different and much more powerful version of SketchUp to the online browser based SketchUp Free.
Learning the basic tools is just the start though. You can save yourself so much time and effort by using a few simple methods I show you in the course.
Using these techniques, you will find it much easier to design and draw your own projects!
Drawing in 3D can be huge fun, seeing something you have imagined coming to life.
It can also be a bit daunting at first, and without a clear structure to guide you, its possible to get a bit lost. This is why you need my course.
(Update, February 2018: link for students who want to learn basics first added)
Who this course is for:
Anyone who wants to design small scale projects with SketchUp
Any woodworker who wants to present a project to clients and public in 3D

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Working as an illustrator and designer in architecture and publishing for more than 30 years has taught me a lot about different types of drawing software.So how do you choose which programs to use?I've done that for you in my courses.Would you like to learn how to draw accurate woodworking plans quickly and easily using a great value professional CAD program? Well, take my CAD for Woodworkers course using DraftSight, a great professional level CAD program similar in commands and structure to AutoCAD.Would you like to be able to design and draw your projects in 3D? I'm running a course now on Udemy, SketchUp for Woodworkers, for anyone (not just woodworkers) who wants to learn how to use SketchUp to draw smaller projects (ie not a house!)See my Udemy courses ,SketchUp for Woodworkers and its companion course, CAD for Woodworkers. Brief CV: I have worked on a wide range of magazine titles in the UK, US and Europe and currently illustrate 2 UK based craft titles, Furniture and Cabinetmaking and Woodworking Crafts, providing plans and 3D drawings as well as articles for both. I have illustrated more than 50 books on a wide variety of craft subjects, and have written extensively in craft magazines on the use of computer drawing techniques in furniture making and joinery.I have a degree in Architecture, and run LineMine, a website that focuses on design drawing techniques and software.

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