“Even if you’re experienced with using a computer, learning a new software program presents two problems. The first is learning how to get around the program; the second is learning how to make the program do what you want it to do. We’re excited about what SketchUp can do to make woodworking easier and better, [...]
The winner of the Subdivide and Smooth Tutorial Contest was Takeshi Hashimoto “with his outstanding tutorial of how to accurately model a Panton Chair using the plugin. He presents a very interesting workflow that might give you some new ideas on how to put Subdivide and Smooth to use.” Read more on the “Whaat’s Up [...]
Guest writer Megan Jones takes you on a tip trip with Google SketchUp on Bill Mullin’s Weblog; “Whether you want to design a new addition to your house, plan your landscaping or just make a drawing for fun, Google SketchUp offers wonderful functionality for creating 3D models. Even better, it’s completely free. If you’d like [...]
Chris Fullmer continues his Ruby scripting tutorial series with part 2: Writing a script. Part 1 is located here.
“To figure out the hight of a building you can use a combination of “Match Photo” in SketchUp and Google Earth imagery. After you have traced the photo in SketchUp, import Google Earth imagery. Measure the length of the building on Google Earth. Rescale the model using this length. You will now have a better [...]
Yet another cool and useful tutorial video on the proper methods to build models for Google Earth in Google SketchUp. Read more or watch the video below.
We have already mentioned SketchUp Basics – Trunk Lid Pt. 1 and Trunk Lid Pt. 2 previously. Here is the final part of the series; Trunk Lid Pt. 3 now. An excellent video tutorial posted on “The Wood Whisperer”.
In this great tutorial by SketchUcation Community Forums member “MuseumMaker” (Patrick R.) we can have an insight to detailed modeling with the otherwise rather underestimated “PhotoMatch” function of Google SketchUp. See the finished model and a quick render below and read more here.
Another excellent tutorial by Dave Richards (also member of the SketchUcation Community Forums). With these tutorials, woodworking and SketchUp indeed looks pretty easy. Read more.
An excellent and detailed tutorial by Don Engel who says “We’ll be creating a gemstone in this tutorial. I use Illustrator and Sketchup Pro, but similar effects can be achieved with Corel, Inkscape, Xara or other tools and the freeware version of Sketchup”. Read more.
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