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[Lonsdale73]

A whole day to Sketchup!

 

[Brandlin]

want a copy of solid works?
you can lose whole months that way

what did you sketch?

 

[Peter Sefton]

what did you sketch?

Was it a black hole or a long wait

Cheers Peter

 

[g7g7g7g7]

I really need to get better at sketchup, I'm fine up until there's curves god forbid trying to draw spindles or anything where curves and spheres intersect. I hit a point and then have to go to doodling on paper. Does anyone know any sketchup tutorials that deal with complex curves comprehensively?

 

[ColeyS1]

DaveR over on 'The Woodhaven 2' is the grandmaster of sketchup imho. He's very good with helping and sharing his skills. He's got various tutorials online which helped me a lot.

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[Lonsdale73]

want a copy of solid works?
you can lose whole months that way

what did you sketch?

A knock-down toy farmhouse. I'm used to page layout and photo-editing programs where I can easily type in dimensions and positions albeit in two dimensions and in all likelihood will end up recreating the components in InDesign to create printable templates!

 

[pcb1962]

in all likelihood will end up recreating the components in InDesign to create printable templates!

I use Matthias Wandel's Big Print program for printing templates from Sketchup models, it's easy to use and works very well.

 

[Eric The Viking]

The Design section here may help, too.

Regarding curves, etc. It all depends on what you are trying to achieve, as usual. You don't get Bezier curves (you probably do with a plugin but not natively (or at least I haven't found them yet), but I did come across a neat plugin recently for spirals/threadforms: DrawWhorl. It will leave you with a hollow spiral by default, so you have to add in a central cylinder or cone, but it works well enough for me. Like SU itself, it reduces circles to polygons, which is quite good enough for my purposes, but might be annoying if I was driving a 3D printer. It also only really likes UNC/UNF standard sizes (unless you type in the full detail), but that's not a disaster either.

The single thing that transformed my ability to use SU productively was the unbreakable rule that you make a component of the simplest things you draw (every one of 'em!) and the nest them to get complex objects. That way, things don't "glue" themselves to each other unless you tell them to ("intersect with model"). Drawing something and then hiding it for later use (in the right place) also helps me.

 

[Bodgers]

I switched to Fusion 360 after getting a 3D printer and an XCarve. I now don't use Sketchup at all. I just found the learning curve easier with Fusion.

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