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I just realized I hadn't answered this question Don. I congratulate you for the care and energy you have devoted to your tutorials.Regards,Don Brown

#Sketchup tutorials how to#

A very ambitious tutorial would demonstrate how to change individual elements of a piece of furniture in order to arrive at a pleasing overall design.I think many people can gain confidence about using a program like Sketchup simply by knowing that something CAN be done. What about a demonstration of wrapping crown (or other) molding around the top of a cabinet?Another area of interest is using the program for testing out various scales and proportions in design. You've shown a good example of the Follow-Me tool for lathing a knob.

Sometimes it is easier to change a 1x4x8' into a 2x12ењ†' rather than drawing a new element from scratch. Or scaling a stock cabinet so it fits in a prescribed opening (stretching a 24'-wide cabinet, for example, to exactly 37.5').Another time saver is using the Push-Pull tool to change the size of a stock element, for instance, a piece of lumber. I think woodworkers would enjoy some explanation of draw-once/use-often ojects-what Sketchup terms 'components.' For example, resizing a raised-panel door while keeping the width of rails, stiles, and panel edge constant. 'I'll keep them coming.anyone have any more suggestions?'Stone-The excellent tutorials and the on-line Help pages provided by Sketchup provide most of the basic information on how to draw.

I'll keep them coming.anyone have any more suggestions? Things you are having difficulty with? Oh would still be worthwhile to get to the library for viewing.

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You use to be able to download the tutorials. You shouldВ get a USB drive and go to a friends or Library with high speed access. It is faster (although I suspect the quick download you experienced was because the file was already in your cache) and you'll have them to view over again and follow along with. Direct transfers to your harddrive is the way to go. My woodworking skills are intermmediate at best so this is the best way I can contribute. This is a great way for me to pay it forward. Each only took about 5 minutesВ to create. I used to run a BBS back in the pre-internet days. 't carrier pigeon faster? Sorry,В I remember the pain of dial-up remotely. There are already a number of tutorials on there as well. Make sure you look at Design, Click, Build. I can either point you to the answer or I'll create a tutorial to illustrate.

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Feel free to ask any specific questions you may have. Both are well explained in the tutorials.Д«est of luck to you. Some critical concepts to understand are the use of the red, green, and blue axes, and inference snapping.

You'll find that you'll have a few moments when critical concepts become clear and suddenly everything will become easier. I know it's somewhat time consuming but the best way is to go through and follow along with the online tutorials at Sketchup. You'll find an entry from May 2nd on Sketchup Learning Resources. If you look at the sidebar of the blog under categories you'll see 'Bob's posts'. I recentlyВ posted a list of online resources (learning and otherwise)В in the Design, Click, Build blog.В You'll find a lot of other info there as well.