Designing and drawing
- 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.
Building a Toolbox 1; Outline design
- 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
Building a toolbox 2: Carcass and Linings
- 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
Building a Toolbox 3: the main tray
- 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?
Building a toolbox 4: Small Tray
- Small tray sides and building a grid with guidelines
- Model the small tray dovetails
- Small tray bottom and grooves, finishing (almost) the construction
Building a toolbox 5: Finishing off and refining the details
- 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
Presentation and Output;
- 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
The next steps
- Bonus lecture: additional drawing resources at my LineMine website
