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

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Designing and drawing

Lecture 1: Welcome to SketchUp for Woodworkers

Lecture 2: Design Ideas; doing a bit research before you start

Lecture 3: Free basic SketchUp course available here…

Lecture 4: Viewing your model

Lecture 5: Components and Groups

Lecture 6: Positioning Objects in SketchUp

Lecture 7: Changing Sizes

Lecture 8: Changing Colour and Number

Lecture 9: Keyboard shortcuts; a few of the most popular ones which can save lots of time.

Chapter 2: Building a Toolbox 1; Outline design

Lecture 1: Building a toolbox: Introduction

Lecture 2: Outline Box; start the design process in SketchUp with overall shape and size

Lecture 3: Use your outline design as a template to start the construction of details

Lecture 4: Front and Side Worksheet

Lecture 5: Setting up dovetails is easy and adds realistic detail to your outline design

Lecture 6: Set Up Dovetails Worksheet

Chapter 3: Building a toolbox 2: Carcass and Linings

Lecture 1: Cutting dovetails; if only it was this quick and easy in the workshop!

Lecture 2: Cutting Dovetails Worksheet

Lecture 3: Marking out the sockets; get out the virtual pencil to finish your dovetails

Lecture 4: Marking Out Worksheet

Lecture 5: Making the top: create a top with a tongue using the Push/Pull tool

Lecture 6: Making the Top Worksheet

Lecture 7: Cutting the top grooves by drawing rectangles on the top and pasting in place

Lecture 8: Cutting Top Grooves Worksheet

Lecture 9: Cutting the bottom grooves using a great mirroring technique

Lecture 10: Cutting Bottom Grooves Worksheet

Lecture 11: Make the bottom of the toolbox in one easy move and edit!

Lecture 12: Creating the Bottom Worksheet

Lecture 13: Splitting the side or get the virtual saw out

Lecture 14: Splitting the Side Worksheet

Lecture 15: Splitting the front or a bit more cutting with the virtual saw!

Lecture 16: Splitting the Front Worksheet

Lecture 17: Creating the linings; more drawing once, using twice

Lecture 18: Creating the Linings Worksheet

Chapter 4: Building a Toolbox 3: the main tray

Lecture 1: Main tray side and front: streamlining the Copy and Flip techniques

Lecture 2: Main tray dovetails plus a few keyboard shortcuts

Lecture 3: Main tray bottom and grooves: introducing the powerful Intersect Faces option

Lecture 4: Adding dividers, and what on earth is a tangent arc?

Chapter 5: Building a toolbox 4: Small Tray

Lecture 1: Small tray sides and building a grid with guidelines

Lecture 2: Model the small tray dovetails

Lecture 3: Small tray bottom and grooves, finishing (almost) the construction

Chapter 6: Building a toolbox 5: Finishing off and refining the details

Lecture 1: Holes in the main tray ends

Lecture 2: Filling in the jigsaw pieces

Lecture 3: There's more than one way to chamfer a top. Two in fact.

Lecture 4: Rounding over the outer edges of the main tray

Lecture 5: Starting the finger pull

Lecture 6: Finishing the finger pull

Chapter 7: Presentation and Output;

Lecture 1: Styles – An overview of setting up and editing styles

Lecture 2: Styles – Lines (or Edges as SketchUp calls them)

Lecture 3: Applying materials

Lecture 4: Working with wood grain

Lecture 5: Scenes; how to use scenes to display your model, including animation

Lecture 6: Adding Dimensions

Lecture 7: Output: some of the great alternative ways to present and share your model

Chapter 8: The next steps

Lecture 1: Bonus lecture: additional drawing resources at my LineMine website