SketchUp for Woodworkers: bring your designs to life in 3D

Learn professional techniques which make even complex projects easy to model in SketchUp.

Created by: Simon Rodway
Drawing software professional, designer and journalist

What Will I Learn?

• Update: link to free SketchUp basic lectures added February 2018
• Bring your design ideas to life in 3D with SketchUp
• Learn to try out different ideas quickly and easily by making edits to your models
• Go way beyond the free videos and learn how to build SketchUp models the professional way
• Cut drawing times in half, literally, with a simple mirror method
• Learn why its so important to build your model in situ
• Learn how you can model even complex shapes with a simple technique
• Learn to draw something once, and use it again and again and again, saving hours

Requirements

• A computer with either SketchUp Make or SketchUp Pro installed on it
• A basic knowledge of SketchUp drawing and editing tools
• SketchUp Make 2017 is still available as a free download, on the Sketchup website with /download/all added, then login

Target audience

• Anyone who wants to design small scale projects with SketchUp
• Any woodworker who wants to present a project to clients and public in 3D