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Do you Click-Move-Click, or Click-Drag-Release?
May 1, 2011

A reader of my book recently asked why his mouse was not working like my book explanations. While drawing a line with the Line Tool, he could not get the…
Creating New Materials
April 26, 2011

Last week I was asked to describe how I make wood grain materials for use in SketchUp. Here's a bit of the discussion we had. To start with, I find…
Evolving a Design in SketchUp
April 19, 2011

When beginning a new design, I plan on saving several SketchUp versions as the project develops. I will start with a "1" after the filename, and continue with "2, 3,…
Drawing With Plugins
April 9, 2011

The other day I was looking through an old book and came across a ladder back chair with a rush seat. I thought it would make an interesting excercise in…
Showing Shop Dovetail Procedure (in SketchUp)
March 31, 2011

Recently I tried to explain my dovetail procedure used in the shop. The project was making several Shaker Chip Boxes, and each corner is fastened with hand-cut dovetails thesenbspare...
Resizing a Model
March 27, 2011

In my previous blog entry I mentioned that, after drawing the model to the dimensions of the original, I would like to make it slightly deeper. I also think wider…
Modeling a Windsor Chair – Part 1
March 27, 2011

For next semester's class at Mount Diablo Adult Education Center, I'm developing a model and accompanying design documents for a Braced Comb-Back Side Chair. I like to replicate actual 18th…
Using a Reference Sketch—Another Approach
March 23, 2011

In my previous blog post entry I wrote about tracing a reference drawing to get the basics for a 3D model. sometimes the reference drawing isn't at all useful for…
Tracing a Reference Drawing
March 14, 2011

Once in awhile it happens that you want to draw a SketchUp model from a sketch on paper. Perhaps it is something you've drawn out by hand or as in…
Checking a Plane Angle – in SketchUp?
March 10, 2011

Sometimes it's easier to determine a difficult angle by drawing a model of the problem in SketchUp and measuring the angle. Recently in one of my classes, while hand planing…

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