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SketchUp ®

Google

Guide for

Woodworkers

By Timothy S. Killen

The Taunton Press, Inc., 63 South Main Street, P.O. Box 5506, Newtown, CT 06470-5506

e-mail: tp@taunton.com

Fine Woodworking® is a trademark of The Taunton Press, Inc., registered by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

The following manufacturers/names appearing in Google SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers are trademarks belonging to

their respective owners: Adobe®, Adobe Acrobat®, Brusso®, Dominy Tool Collection®, Google®, iPhoto®, Macintosh®,

Microsoft Windows®, Picasa® SketchUp®.

E d i t o r : David Heim

d E s i g n & L a y o u t : Michael Amaditz

P r o j E c t M a n a g E r : Sarah Opdahl

c o P y E d i t o r : Candace B. Levy

i n d E x E r : Cathy Goddard

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Killen, Timothy S.

Google SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers / Timothy S. Killen.

ISBN-13 978-1-60085-341-8

ISBN-10 1-60085-341-2

Contents

c h a p t e r o n e

Introduction......................................................... 1

c h a p t e r t e n

More Tools and Functions ................................. 66

c h a p t e r t w o

How to Set Up SketchUp for Woodworking ......... 4

c h a p t e r t h r e e

The Modeling Environment and Toolbars............. 7

c h a p t e r f o u r

How to Use Basic SketchUp Tools ..................... 11

c h a p t e r f i v e

Learn to Draw Precisely..................................... 18

c h a p t e r s i x

How to Make, Move, Copy, Edit,

and Connect Components................................. 24

c h a p t e r e l e v e n

How to Use Photographs

and Scanned Images ........................................ 74

c h a p t e r t w e l v e

Advanced Modeling Techniques ........................ 80

c h a p t e r t h i r t e e n

Advanced Detail Modeling

Using the Intersect Command......................... 102

c h a p t e r f o u r t e e n

How to Add Color and Texture

to Your Model.................................................. 122

c h a p t e r f i f t e e n

How to Create an Effective

Package of Shop Drawings.............................. 127

c h a p t e r s i x t e e n

Printing Full-Size Templates

and Other Scenes............................................ 133

Index ............................................................... 137

c h a p t e r s e v e n

Create Your First SketchUp Model..................... 29

c h a p t e r e i g h t

How to Design and Construct Joints.................. 36

c h a p t e r n i n e

How to Begin and Develop

a Piece of Furniture........................................... 44

C H a P T E R O N E

Introduction

F or years I’ve wanted to draw

components detailed in the model, you

can use SketchUp to generate full-size

templates for the shop. That makes con-

struction much simpler, faster, and more

accurate, with less reworking and fewer

delays to sort out discrepancies. You also

gain a better understanding of construc-

tion details, which pays off when you

tackle the real project in the shop.

SketchUp’s price is right—free. The

no-cost download has all the features

you need to produce the most complex

woodworking projects and compre-

hensive shop drawings. A Pro version,

priced at $495, includes capabilities and

features for importing and exporting files

to and from various CAD formats, add-

ing information to models, and produc-

ing documents exported in the Adobe

PDF format.

Most of the books and tutorials I’ve

seen are designed to help architects,

landscape designers, and builders master

SketchUp. They aren’t always well suited

to woodworkers, who use SketchUp in

unique ways. That’s why I’ve created

this book for professional and hobby-

ist cabinetmakers, furniture-builders,

and designers as well as woodworking

teachers. My book will show you how

to do the following:

• Develop a complete piece of furni-

ture from scratch or from photos or

images imported into SketchUp.

• Create shop drawings, documents,

and full-size templates.

my furniture plans in full-size

three-dimensional (3D) models. I

dreamed of “building” the furni-

ture on the computer as if I were in the

shop, shaping each spindle, board, and

panel and assembling them into a fin-

ished product. Existing two-dimensional

(2D) computer-aided design (CAD) sys-

tems were okay, but they didn’t let me

view the project from any angle or check

its integrity as it developed. I wanted a

design program that gave me exploded

views of assemblies, perspective color

images, and the ability to ensure that

complex joints fit together properly.

Finally, I found what I wanted—Google

SketchUp. I’ve been using this program

since 2005 and will never go back to 2D

CAD, nor will I enter the shop without

first creating a piece in SketchUp.

SketchUp opens up drawing capabili-

ties once available only to professional

designers and illustrators using esoteric,

expensive CAD systems. Now you can

create virtual furniture, using SketchUp

to create each piece of wood and hard-

ware, complete with every joint detail.

You can view and check every aspect

of the furniture with SketchUp’s array

of viewing options, including easily cre-

ated exploded and X-Ray views. With

SketchUp, you can design furniture full

of complex shapes and angles, such as a

Windsor chair or a Chippendale lowboy

with cabriole legs. Once you have all the

Figure 1. An assembled view of a Philadelphia fan-back armchair. With SketchUp, even

complex pieces like the turned chair legs can be easily created, copied, rotated, and joined

to other components.

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C H a P T E R O N E

In short, SketchUp allows you to

quickly and accurately make a detailed

model to generate the dimensional

views and full-size templates necessary

for basic shop construction.

There are limits to what I can do in

SketchUp, however. I learned this when I

developed the Maloof-style rocker shown

on page 3. I couldn’t possibly create a

beautifully sculptured chair in SketchUp,

but I didn’t need artistic sculpturing in

the model. What I gained from SketchUp

were sizes, angles, joint details, bandsawn

shapes, and full-size templates. The final

artful sculpturing so important to a Ma-

loof design would have to come from

studying photos or an actual piece.

I also bump into SketchUp’s limitations

on Windsor chairs. SketchUp shows the

complex assembly, with parts connected

at various angles, but it’s not easy for me to

render the final shaping and sculpting of

the seat, arms, and crest rails. Nevertheless,

I would not know how to start a Wind-

sor without first working out all the parts,

angles, and connections in SketchUp.

Perhaps someday SketchUp will in-

clude a woodworker’s toolbox equipped

with drawknives, travishers, files, and

spokeshaves. Meantime, I’ll be quite

Figure 2. An exploded view of the top of an American highboy. Once you’ve drawn the

individual elements of a piece of furniture, you can display them in numerous ways without

having to redraw anything.

• Make any woodworking joint,

no matter how complex.

• Assemble paneled doors and

drawers.

• Shape cabriole legs, back slats,

steam-bent parts, scrolled aprons,

tapered legs, and the like.

• Design and shape complex

moldings.

• Render turned drawer knobs,

table legs, chair stretchers, bowls,

and spindles.

times as needed. You can rotate or flip

the copies to orient them properly. And

any change you make to one copy auto-

matically appears in the others.

If you want to reproduce a piece of pe-

riod furniture, you can import a scanned

image of the original into SketchUp, then

use the image to determine exact sizes

and re-create original shapes.

In SketchUp, there is no need to draw

multiple views of an object. With a few

mouse clicks, you can view the model

or its pieces from any angle and at any

size. You can easily create an exploded,

orthographic, or X-Ray view.

SketchUp’s Scenes feature lets you isolate

and enlarge a portion of a large or com-

plex piece, such as a drawer in a highboy,

without having to create a separate draw-

ing. Scenes let you generate a complete,

detailed, printable design document.

SketchUp’s special strengths

(and limitations)

When you work in SketchUp, you create

“components.” These are 3D elements

that define a piece of furniture—a leg,

stiles and rails, a drawer front, and so on.

For multiples, like table legs and drawer

sides, you draw one and copy it as many

Figure 3. These drawings of a cabriole leg show SketchUp’s versatility. You can show the

overall component with dimensions, in two-dimensional views, or in perspective views to show

complete details of the joints, such as the dovetail socket and mortises.

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