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Create Shop Drawings II
May 8, 2009

This is the second entry in a series covering the creation of shop drawings. Last week I showed the use of Scenes to provide a way of capturing views of…
Layers, Scenes, Dimensions and Construction Drawings
May 3, 2009

My approach to utilizing layers for with dimensions and scenes when making construction drawings.
Create Shop Drawings
May 1, 2009

Now that you've got your piece of furniture modeled in SketchUp, how do you extract/ show information and drawings needed in the shop? For this you need to know about…
Using the Shape Bender Plugin
April 25, 2009

Here's an example of a table leg component drawn using the new Shape Bender plugin.
Using the Intersect Feature
April 24, 2009

In SketchUp you can interact different model shapes and find their "intersections". The feature is called "Intersect" and comes in handy for furniture design. A popular example of its use,…
Breadboard Joinery for the Table Top
April 17, 2009

I'll show my SketchUp procedure for making detail connections of a breadboard to a table top. This design, while using tenon pegs, allows for seasonal movement of wood which is…
Making a Bevel-edged Drawer Bottom
April 10, 2009

Both Dave Richards and I have recommended modeling components in the context of the assembled piece of furniture. This saves time and reduces errors by drawing a new component where…
Another New Plugin with Great Potential for Woodworkers
April 9, 2009

A quick look at a new SketchUp plugin that allows you to bend the geometry of a flat line to correspond to a curve. Read about one example of how…
Axes in SketchUp
April 5, 2009

A look at global and component axes in SketchUp
More on Mirroring with Flip Along
April 2, 2009

Last week I showed how to mirror table legs using the Flip Along feature of SketchUp. As pointed out in comments to the post, there are conditions which will affect…

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