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Quick and Easy Mortises and Tenons
June 25, 2010

Mortises and tenons aren't really very difficult to draw in SketchUp but it can be tedious work when you have a lot of them to do. Recently a mortise and…
Materials, Colors, and Textures 3
June 19, 2010

This is the third entry of a series on Materials, Colors and Textures. The first two blog entries covered the easy application of colors. This entry moves on to the…
Materials, Colors, and Textures 2
June 12, 2010

In this second coloring example, I will shown how to color edges or lines different than the standard black. Often, I like to show the sight lines on a Windsor…
An Upholstered Chair Cushion
June 12, 2010

Our reader, Nollie, asked about how to make a cushion for a dining chair he's working on. Here's a simple approach to create a cushion. I'm using a model I…
Materials, Colors, and Textures 1
June 6, 2010

I admit showing limited application of model coloring or texturing, rather emphasizing default values for edges and faces. This has been intentional as I don't usually find value in...
An Elliptical Table Top
May 30, 2010

The other day a reader asked about how to draw an elliptical table top. Coincidentally I just did a drawing of a small table with an elliptical top. Here's how…
The Blacker House Chair Leg Detail
May 28, 2010

One of our readers asked about how to draw the indent detail from the Greene and Greene-designed Blacker House chair legs. As with most procedures, there are perhaps a number…
Sculpturing a Windsor Seat with Plug-in
May 26, 2010

For years I've struggled with shaping (in SketchUp) the seat on a Windsor, or for that matter a Maloof, chair. I continue to look for easier ways than my brute…
A Barley Twist in SketchUp
May 23, 2010

A friend of mine asked me if I could draw a two-start barley twist. With a couple of plugins, this turns out to be a fairly easy proposition. I used…
Sugar Scoop – A Follow Me and Push/Pull Excercise
May 22, 2010

The other day I had an e-mail from a reader who was asking about how to draw a wooden scoop similar to the one shown here. Like the Ruhlman-inspired leg…

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