![]() Take a course or get a training DVD and then use it. My advice is, don’t take seven years of noodling around to get comfortable using this powerful, helpful tool. In that time I learned a lot more about SketchUp’s features and how to better use its features. For seven years, we changed the layout, size and features of the various rooms in our house. But then I began revising it based on the orders of the Supreme Commander. But when my wife and I decided to build our own house, I started using SketchUp. I drew the original, entire first draft of our house plan in just a week or so. “I, too, was a junior high school drafting class student, and quite enjoyed putting pencil to paper to plan out my woodworking projects. And you won’t lose the design like you would a sheet of paper. Cut lists can be created either manually (by fitting the finished parts onto digital images of plywood sheets or solid wood boards) or automatically with some of the add-on applications that are available (which I personally don’t like, and they have been known to err). Pieces that would bump into one another in the real world also do so on the screen. Forcing myself to digitally ‘mill’ every piece of a project and then fit them together has saved me a lot of board feet of lumber by getting the dimensions and joinery right. “Rob, I’ve used Sketchup for years (beware, there is an annual updating of the software, which means that new SketchUp files, such as those for I Can Do That, won’t load into older versions), and I wouldn’t have it any other way. He wondered how other eZine readers draw and design their projects. In last issue’s eZine, Rob mentioned that he has not yet learned SketchUp – but plans to, in order to design his new shop.
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