![]() Matt Sanfilippo is the Chief Partnership Officer (CPO) for the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Co-Director of its Engineering Research Accelerator. I am not sure that you can use SketchUp effectively without the keyboard shortcuts, particularly for the camera and view tools. I will post the small SketchUp tips that have made a difference for me as I come across them.įirst tip, you need to learn to use the keyboard shortcuts. Between Bob’s DVDs and the Grover book, I have been making rapid progress at learning SketchUp at last. Additionally, I bought the book Google SketchUp: The Missing Manualby Chris Grover. Bob generated many “ah-ha” moments that solved my prior problems. Bob makes clear the small “details” that turned SketchUp from frustrating to highly useful. It is very useful.įor those of you wanting to learn to use SketchUp for furniture making, I highly recommend buying Bob Lang’s two DVDs. ![]() I’m happy to report, that after taking Bob Lang’s SketchUp seminar at WIA, and then practicing at home using Bob’s SketchUp DVDs, I’m now successfully using SketchUp to design furniture. After all, I deal with technology all day and I ought to be able to learn to design using this program. This year, prior to going to WIA last month, I became determined to learn SketchUp and fight may way through my hangups. To do SketchUp right, it takes some practice. This hidden power makes the program LOOK much simpler to use than it really is. The program is far more powerful than it looks, and there are a myriad of tiny details and tricks that are hidden from the user. Unfortunately, in my prior attempts to use it for “real” I have always been stopped by small details that I just could not get to work the way that I wanted, and I always reverted to pencil and paper. The program, on its face, is very easy to learn to use and really cool (and free). I’m always down to talk about woodworking and carpentry.I had tried to learn to use Google SketchUp before to aid in design of woodworking projects.\ If you have any questions about anything(or you think I missed something!) please don’t hesitate to ask. Finally, if your team is in the PA/NJ area and need a field to practice on, feel free to email to arrange a time to stop by and do some testing! Feel free to figure out how much you would need from scratch and post it below. I did not fill out the required material section of the spreadsheet because 1712 has material from 20 that still needs to be sorted through, and this will impact how much new material is needed for our team.The loading station has been simplified to a basic sheet with the appropriate cutouts and two braces to hold it vertically. ![]()
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