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Firstly I must add my thanks to Chris for a great resource. Thank you. I too found the creation of two linked drawers at the 20:00 mark to be impossible for a while. But I finally cracked it. This is for Windows - maybe there’s a difference in assumptions on a Mac, but there are a couple of unstated steps that made the difference for me. 1) Draw the initial rectangle on the left cubby. 2) Give it thickness 3) Triple-click the face of it, and make it a component. Click outside the component to unselect it. 4) Double-click the drawer face to put the component in edit mode - now it will get a dotted “cage” around it. 5) Draw the dividing line from left edge to right edge of the front as Chris did. 6) Press P for the Push/Pull tool, click-and-hold on the lower-half, push it back as far as it will go (0.75 in this case), and let go of the mouse in whereupon the lower-half disappears. to cancel the tool. Click outside the console to cancel edit mode. 7) Single-click on the upper-half, press M key, press , then move your pointer to the top left corner as Chris did, then click-hold-and-drag a copy of the top-half into the bottom-half. to cancel the tool. 8) Now for the check at 20:55. Double-click on either half-drawer-front to put it into edit mode signified by the dotted cage. Press C for the circle tool, and draw on the front you had selected. As soon as you finish the first circle it appears on the other half-drawer-front. Success 😊 Don't forget to cancel the tool and edit-mode afterwards. I hope this works for you as it eventually did for me. The key seems to be knowing when to be in edit-mode, and when not to be.
I got as far as the end of step 6 but then when I try to make a copy and drag it to the bottom it's duplicating not just the front drawer face but also the attached side panel on the right (so I guess I accidentally made that part of the same component when I shouldn't have...). When I try and go back to step 3 to make it a component I have just the front drawer face as a component which is correct. However, when I try double clicking in step 4 no dotted cage appears (which is the same problem I had originally). Any more ideas would be appreciated thanks :)
Thank you so much for this comment. I couldn't determine how much he was selecting on the Front drawer face before making it a component. Tried many different ways and a good 30 minutes of frustration.
Well, even this comment did not help, as the freshly created rectangle would snap to the mid vertical structure, resulting in push not giving it any volume and thus preventing from creating a proper component. Solved it by building it away from the main model, and then moving onto the cabinet.
So GOOD. Thank you. I have used sketchup for many larger, landscape scope projects. I thought it was enough to start modeling furniture, but I was wrong. Your video filled in the blanks. So grateful.
Dude - this is absolute GOLD. The number of hours/attempts I've made at trying to successfully fumble my way through SketchUp listening to some random guy with a terribly difficult accent showing me every single facet of SketchUp...nightmare. Super thankful to have something well presented, easy to follow, and catered toward someone like me who is just trying to improve the building process. Well done m'man!
Thanks, Chris I've been using Sketchup for three years now in my cabinet-making business and wish I'd seen your video back then! I get there in the end but the methods you use and in particular, the clear way you explain and demonstrate them is very helpful. This is a complicated subject for someone who is, in my situation, a cabinet maker but not very computer literate. I'm going to set aside time each week to study and practice the processes you demonstrate. So thank you.
This is everything I have been wanting! You said recently that you find yourself to be a great teacher, and I completely agree. Thank you for sharing your talents and experience with us!
Thank you so much for this. I just designed my first project and I love this tool. what a great way to have a set final product that others can see. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
OK wow. So way back in high school I learned how to model on a computer using AutoSketch, and back then being a 2D software package I had to draw absolutely every single line in my 3D models individually. There was no extrusion, no push pull button none of that, and I have been trying to model an entertainment unit in Sketchup by doing just that same method and taking forever while learning a new software. Drawing a box the total size and then forming a basic frame of the finished product has just blown my mind and sped my workflow up significantly. Amazing.
From Africa, this tutorial is one of the easiest to understand and to apply. I watched it the last years and now that I need to relearn Sektcup to model somthing, your videos are gold to me
dude....I have been using sketchup 2017 free for a couple years now with my woodworking, but i just never took the approach you teach in this video. And i'm literally kicking myself because of it! you created a beautiful cabinet model in literally less than a half hour and i have been like drawing out each side the exact dimension it would be if it was cut out of wood, making each a component, and then piecing it all together like i would out in the shop. never thought to just draw the overall box out first and just recess it to give the finished carcass size and stuff! plus all of the little shortcuts i didn't know about! Mind = blown thank you kind sir!
I really appreciate you all for this video. I'm sure it doesn't perform well with the views and the clout, but it actually makes a HUGE difference. Thorough educational content like this is so beneficial, and though the metrics might not be favorable for you, it benefits those that are truly interested in the craft. Thank you again for your work and I'm excited for part 2.
Thanks...yeah. I know this will be my worst performing video whenever we are 1 month after launch...the hope is that in two years from now it will be a really good performing video. It should be fairly ever green...and I think the information is on par with things that people would frequently pay for...so hopefully over the long haul it's a win for everybody :)
followed for 7 minutes and already fell in love with sketchup later i was working in pro100, a goody as hell program for furniture modeling and i can tell that sketchup is way interesting and easier to work with
My God how this makes it so much easier to learn and tinker in SketchUp, Many years ago I had tried to tinker with it and got 10 minutes in and bailed due to the complexity... thank you so much for this tutorial.
I know you posted this video like 6 months ago and the likelihood that you'll see this is incredibly low, but I've wanted to learn this software for quite some time and it's been so daunting and intimidating to the point that I just kept putting it off and telling myself 'I'll do it later' and whatever else excuse came to mind. I just wanted to say thank you (which I don't feel does any justice) so insanely much. I've been a subscriber of yours for years now and I watch every single video you post. I've learned frankly an unfathomable amount from you and still am today. You've inspired me to take on projects that I absolutely never ever would have, and I'm still hoping to chase my own dream of building stuff for people for a living. I genuinely can't convey how much I appreciate all of your content and kindness and how thankful I am for how much you've helped me learn and grow. Also, I'm proud to say that I've followed along with the entire part 1 video and my/your/our console looks amazing. I'm really pumped for part 2 (which has probably also been up for like 6 months. don't judge me.)
this is how every introductory tutorial should be, assuming the viewer knows absolutely nothing about the topic and skipping no steps even the ones that might look trivial. Well done!
Thanks so much for putting this tutorial together Foureyes! It’s extremely helpful, especially for someone that has struggled with Sketchup. Even better, so nice that you’ve geared this towards woodworkers. So many tutorials are for complex parts for machining, so it’s hard to apply to woodworking if you get lost at all in the process.
I'm a science teacher who left the building craft 25 years ago. Of course, I have a small shop and build furniture and sculptural things a lot. I can't tell you how many "how to" vids on SketchUp I've watched. And they never do what you did first thing: set up units and make something a set dimension! SketchUp for building furniture. YES! I've needed this tutorial for a long time and I'm so grateful for your content. Nice job Chris.
This was amazing, thanks. It would be *really* cool if you ultimately built what you're modelling now, showing how you use the model to define cut lists etc.
I'm using Sketchup from more then 10 years and you never stop learning. The / and * tools blows my mind! Thank you very much! 👍👍👍 (PS: I have sympathy for you who use the imperial system...there's a kind of masochism 🤣)
From Maldives: Al'hamdhu LILLAH. Thank you so much Foureyes Furniture! This tutorial really help me extremely. This tutorial is simple and also the way he guide us is really easy for the beginners. This two part series is outstanding. Thank yo so much for donating the considerable time and effort to make this. Great job! Thank you so much Chris!
This is the exact thing I've been looking for, I've made furniture for 20yrs as a job and need to use sketch up now so this vid is immensely helpful,cheers for doing this for all us non technological woodworkers to follow, you my friend are a legend👏👍👍👍
This is a great tutorial. I am an avid woodworker and have hacked around with sketchup for years, so I was mainly interested in seeing how a pro works with the app, without getting distracted by a bunch of aesthetic detail. Its already reduced the cursing in my office by 90% haha!
Great video and thank you! I have been using sketchup for about 4 or 5 years... But i did not really dig deep into the learning and just learnt what i needed as i went along. I knew all of the stuff in your video, but not some of the tips and details of the tools. So even for a seasoned sketchup user, this was well worth the watch!
I'm not a beginner in Sketchup but if I was this is definitely the video I'd love to find; really clear, extremely well explained & I loved how each piece of knowledge built upon the last. Great job Chris!
Dude! This video BLEW. MY. MIND!!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯I learned to use a few of the basics from Steve Ramsey's video (no discredit to Steve) but this is on another level. The divide by or multiply by is a game changer as are many of the other functions I wasn't aware of. Thank you so much for this. I will definitely be watching Pt.2
This is a blessing! I come from parametric solid modelers like SolidWorks, TopSolid and Fusion 360. Sketchup had me really confused to the point that I basically was ready to give up. I use CAD mostly for woodworking projects so this was very interesting and I might actually start using Sketchup. Thank you so much for this!
I wish you were my instructor 25-years ago when I first got into CAD & DCC modelling. Btw, one small FYI is that when an object is duplicated and it's still connected to the original object (reflecting any mods from/to the master object) is called an 'instance'. It's a small detail in vernacular but the reason why is that a 'duplicate' can also be a 'copy' which is a unique component that doesn't reflect the object it was duplicated from. Makes more sense when you're in a conversation with another modeller and describing steps and such... Anyway, awesome channel.
It's hard to overstate how unbelievably helpful this is for novice woodworkers who aren't confident in 3d modeling. This has helped me immensely with laying out my own small side table build. Thank you!
The video is very successful in terms of explanation and instruction. I will now be able to finish tasks that previously took me hours in a short time. Thanks so much Chris. 😊
Thank you - This is what I have been looking for and even signed up to Skill Share - but no real how-to for woodworking projects. Appreciate the time in building this. Will help me out a lot.
Having just started using SketchUp for several home projects this video has cemented some of my learning and also taught me some useful shortcuts and tools to use to be more productive, thank you
I have watch an embarrasing amount of SketchUp videos on TH-cam and this one is BY A MILE the best quality and teaching I have seen yet. Nice work, hope you keep them coming, I have alerts turned on! You mentioned SketchUp Make 2017 as a free version, it does have a 30 day free trial, is there a desktop version that does not require a subscription or is using the free web version good enough?
I’ve been trying to use Sketchup for quite some time now, with no success at all. This helped me tremendously! You’re such a good teacher, and I thank you for sharing your knowledge, (and your humor), with us. I really enjoy your channel! 👍🤓
Excellent Chris. Over the years I've dabbled in 3D with a variety of apps... I finish a project and then forget most of what I've learned about that tool's interface. Sketchup made be an app I stick with after watching you walk through this design.
Funnily enough this was a better Sketchup tutorial than most dedicated Sketchup tutorials ive seen and more relevant to what i want to use it for! Cheers!
Wow! This might be THE best explanation I have ever watched on sketchup. Seriously! I taught myself how to this tool previously. I occasionally watch sketch up videos looking for a new nugget. I have never seen such a smooth, clear, intuitive 'instructional' video on software, of all things. You did a wonderful job.
Chris, this is one of THE BEST overview and quick start tutorials I have ever watched. I love your style; quick and too the point. You cover a lot of material in a very short time. Your sharing is very much appreciated.
To be honest, there were some things in your process where I was thinking “oh no! Rookie mistake!” But then you addressed how to fix them in much simpler ways that I would have fixed them. (Flip along X axis instead of rotate tool; for example) I definitely learned something from this. Great video!
Love you, bro, it's one of the best tutorials of any software I've been using (I was teaching software to people for many years)❣Clear and effective! Thank you.
i work with sketchup almost daily but i learned a lot! i've never had lesson from a mac user. i use mac myself too and it helped me much! thnx, looking forward to part 2
I like the way you teach how to draw furniture. I just discovered your channel in you tube. The more I see your videos the more I learn. Thank you for your time and effort that you put into it.
I know I'm a little late to the game here, but I love this video SO MUCH that I'm going to say it anyway. Thank you for making what, in my opinion, is the best Sketchup tutorial I have ever seen! (I've seen a lot...)
Chris! Thank you for this. I have tried to get my arms around using Sketchup to design simple woodworking projects in the past but all the tutorials, written or recorded wanted to teach me everything, rather than what I need to know to fulfil my simple objectives. Problem solved! Thanks for sharing!!
Wow, fantastic!!! Just echoing all the other comments, but I’m new to woodworking and pretty good at sketching, but not making the components look to scale or having usefully working plans. Will definitely check out Sketchup. You are great at teaching at the right pace and level of detail. Thanks again for the time and effort you put into your videos.
I’ve used SU, along with other 3D modeling apps, to design furniture for years. It’s not the most powerful, but it’s SO easy to use! Thanks for the tips on using it better!
Hey Chris, this has got to be one of the absolute BEST video tutorials I’ve come across on Sketchup basics in years. I’m one of those woodworkers who’s tried to learn Sketchup off and on for so many years now, and I guess because of the lack of regular usage and continuity it’s a real pain in the @ss every time I try to dive back in and pick up where I’m going wrong and all the bits I’ve forgotten or have been doing badly since the beginning. Hats off to you Sir for putting this together. Much appreciated. Looking forward to the next one. The bit about comparing design ideas is an absolute game changer! Can’t believe I’ve never heard of or thought of that before - Genius 🤯
This is seriously the best sketchup video instructional I've ever seen here on the tube. No disrespect to anyone else, but the presentation was so well done. Thanks Chris.
Thanks this is excellent! Great for woodworking. I have been overwhelmed by other tutorials but you are excellent at explaining clearly the different things that SketchUp can do that make it a valuable tool to use as an amateur woodworker. I will use this as I reference to help me with Sketchup in the future.
So.. This seems like a great piece of software. I take it you can then layout all the individual pieces with dimensions included so you can work through cutting all your pieces individually. Ive never been one for working from plans. Tend to make things from scratch with a few basic sizes to start with,
I've been using Solidworks and Autocad at work for years. This is one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen. Well done and thanks as I no longer have access to the CAD programs and am starting with Sketchup.
Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw you upload this video, thanks! I'm fairly new to the channel and I was amazed at the quality of modelling and illustrations you've been including in your videos, and I was hoping you'd share some insights. Great work Chris!
I’ve been using the web version of SketchUp for awhile now, but you explained quite a few shortcuts I didn’t know, as well as more efficient ways to design, so thank you!
Thankyou very very much Chris... I have a little workhsop and i commonly used autocad, but i notices that ii´s waaayyy to slow for a forniture design... then you comeout with this tutorials and i said .. why not?!!... and here i am.. :D :D LEARRRNING! THANKYOUU
I love this, really appreciate it, I watched all of your videos even twice for getting a better understanding of the woodworking project. Keep it up. watching from Pakistan.
Dear Chris, thank you very much for sharing knowledge and experience specially modelling in sketchup, I was searching for the same lecture but did not know you use this software and will share it with us too. Its amazing and supportive. Again thanks brother
great vid, worth noting that this is for apple/mac hardware, which uses combinations of the command and option buttons, rather than a windows based platform where it uses the ctrl and alt buttons with a regular 2 button + wheel mouse - you can find windows alternatives on sketchup help
Stoked to find this, I think the way you narrate videos and teach is extremely helpful. I have a lot of trouble finding things that can hold my attention long enough to learn.
Thanks so much Chris, this has been the best sketch up tutorial I I have used so far! Your fast flow is not a negative as your perfectly describe each step and have a perfect balance of WHY and how of each step! I did use the pause and rewind, but I followed along on my sketch well. I look forward to Part2!
I really appreciate the video here. It does go a little too fast, so I had to keep rewinding it to sink it in. Really, every time I tried to learn this application, I ended up very frustrated. I would make one wrong click on my mouse, then boom - the whole damn thing went south! It's about time somebody really looked at it from a beginner's point of view, and taught it accordingly.
Hey man, I must disagree with your statement, There are a lot of people out there teaching that are a whole lot better than me (paraphrasing) You are easy to follow and your style of teaching I found extremely helpful. I just heard about sketch up and I enjoy building but I’m not good at designing anything. Learning about this program was cool but I became a bit overwhelmed because I’m not that computer literate. I watched your video and you covered everything with such detail and thoroughness that I believe an elementary aged kid easily can follow along and learn this. I enjoy being a diy’er but designing any idea I’ve had doesn’t always work out the way it did in my mind. I’m hoping learning this program will move me up to the JV squad. I’m reaching out to thank you for your great video. With a lot of practice and more watching of your videos I hope to one day be in your ear saying, “coach im ready, put me in the game.” Hopefully the Varsity Squad. Thanks again man. Great job I wish you continued success. Jaime
I’ve been using a ketchup for about 15 years. Some tips from someone who has a decent amount of experience: Use components for things you will have multiples of, like table stretchers or legs, shelves, or panels. If you have one that needs to be different right click and make unique. It mill make a new identical component that can be edited without changing all the others. Groups are nice to clump sets of components together. Use the arrow keys to lock your lines to orthogonal directions. Up is blue, and left and right are red and green depending on how you look. Don’t use ctrl+c ctrl+v to copy and paste. It doesn’t always use the point you want as the point you grab. Instead use move, press ctrl at any point before or during the move, and it will create a copy to move and leave the original. After placing you can type x2, x3, or any other number to make an array of several of that item. This is handy for making shelves and other repetitive things. Using rotate and pressing ctrl you can do the same thing and make an angular array, which is helpful for copying things on a circular face, or making a circular pattern. The auto grab points are handy, but be careful you pick the correct points. Sometimes it is better to use the arrow keys to lock your direction, and type the number to make sure you aren’t 3/64” off.
This is a great video. I prefer Fusion360 mainly because making any changes in dimensions to SketchUp is a very laborious process, sometimes involving redoing the whole thing. This is because SketchUp forces you to choose the dimension before the shape is made and has no concept of relationships. Also, as a maker, Fusion360 is a way more versatile tool to know, since it can do everything that SketchUp can do, plus a lot of other techniques/tools that are better fitted for 3D printing and CNC.
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Rookie here. Great video so far but I am using the 2022 version and the /3 command is not working. Anyone know if the command still works?
@@bebsyrivera6500 /3 not working on online sketch up too
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I love your videos they are so laid back but also entertaining to watch then they are very well thought out and useful information
Fantastic explanation!
Firstly I must add my thanks to Chris for a great resource. Thank you.
I too found the creation of two linked drawers at the 20:00 mark to be impossible for a while. But I finally cracked it. This is for Windows - maybe there’s a difference in assumptions on a Mac, but there are a couple of unstated steps that made the difference for me.
1) Draw the initial rectangle on the left cubby.
2) Give it thickness
3) Triple-click the face of it, and make it a component. Click outside the component to unselect it.
4) Double-click the drawer face to put the component in edit mode - now it will get a dotted “cage” around it.
5) Draw the dividing line from left edge to right edge of the front as Chris did.
6) Press P for the Push/Pull tool, click-and-hold on the lower-half, push it back as far as it will go (0.75 in this case), and let go of the mouse in whereupon the lower-half disappears. to cancel the tool. Click outside the console to cancel edit mode.
7) Single-click on the upper-half, press M key, press , then move your pointer to the top left corner as Chris did, then click-hold-and-drag a copy of the top-half into the bottom-half. to cancel the tool.
8) Now for the check at 20:55. Double-click on either half-drawer-front to put it into edit mode signified by the dotted cage. Press C for the circle tool, and draw on the front you had selected. As soon as you finish the first circle it appears on the other half-drawer-front. Success 😊 Don't forget to cancel the tool and edit-mode afterwards.
I hope this works for you as it eventually did for me. The key seems to be knowing when to be in edit-mode, and when not to be.
I got as far as the end of step 6 but then when I try to make a copy and drag it to the bottom it's duplicating not just the front drawer face but also the attached side panel on the right (so I guess I accidentally made that part of the same component when I shouldn't have...). When I try and go back to step 3 to make it a component I have just the front drawer face as a component which is correct. However, when I try double clicking in step 4 no dotted cage appears (which is the same problem I had originally). Any more ideas would be appreciated thanks :)
Thank you so much for this comment. I couldn't determine how much he was selecting on the Front drawer face before making it a component. Tried many different ways and a good 30 minutes of frustration.
Well, even this comment did not help, as the freshly created rectangle would snap to the mid vertical structure, resulting in push not giving it any volume and thus preventing from creating a proper component.
Solved it by building it away from the main model, and then moving onto the cabinet.
Thankyou, step 7 came in very handy.
So GOOD. Thank you. I have used sketchup for many larger, landscape scope projects. I thought it was enough to start modeling furniture, but I was wrong. Your video filled in the blanks. So grateful.
Finally, someone explains this in a way I can understand. Thank you so much!
Great to hear!
Dude - this is absolute GOLD. The number of hours/attempts I've made at trying to successfully fumble my way through SketchUp listening to some random guy with a terribly difficult accent showing me every single facet of SketchUp...nightmare. Super thankful to have something well presented, easy to follow, and catered toward someone like me who is just trying to improve the building process. Well done m'man!
Thanks, Chris
I've been using Sketchup for three years now in my cabinet-making business and wish I'd seen your video back then! I get there in the end but the methods you use and in particular, the clear way you explain and demonstrate them is very helpful. This is a complicated subject for someone who is, in my situation, a cabinet maker but not very computer literate. I'm going to set aside time each week to study and practice the processes you demonstrate. So thank you.
so have you worked out if you can transfer to a cutlist? plz
This is everything I have been wanting! You said recently that you find yourself to be a great teacher, and I completely agree. Thank you for sharing your talents and experience with us!
Thank you so much for this. I just designed my first project and I love this tool. what a great way to have a set final product that others can see. I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
OK wow. So way back in high school I learned how to model on a computer using AutoSketch, and back then being a 2D software package I had to draw absolutely every single line in my 3D models individually. There was no extrusion, no push pull button none of that, and I have been trying to model an entertainment unit in Sketchup by doing just that same method and taking forever while learning a new software. Drawing a box the total size and then forming a basic frame of the finished product has just blown my mind and sped my workflow up significantly. Amazing.
From Africa, this tutorial is one of the easiest to understand and to apply. I watched it the last years and now that I need to relearn Sektcup to model somthing, your videos are gold to me
dude....I have been using sketchup 2017 free for a couple years now with my woodworking, but i just never took the approach you teach in this video. And i'm literally kicking myself because of it! you created a beautiful cabinet model in literally less than a half hour and i have been like drawing out each side the exact dimension it would be if it was cut out of wood, making each a component, and then piecing it all together like i would out in the shop. never thought to just draw the overall box out first and just recess it to give the finished carcass size and stuff! plus all of the little shortcuts i didn't know about! Mind = blown thank you kind sir!
I really appreciate you all for this video. I'm sure it doesn't perform well with the views and the clout, but it actually makes a HUGE difference. Thorough educational content like this is so beneficial, and though the metrics might not be favorable for you, it benefits those that are truly interested in the craft. Thank you again for your work and I'm excited for part 2.
Thanks...yeah. I know this will be my worst performing video whenever we are 1 month after launch...the hope is that in two years from now it will be a really good performing video. It should be fairly ever green...and I think the information is on par with things that people would frequently pay for...so hopefully over the long haul it's a win for everybody :)
followed for 7 minutes and already fell in love with sketchup
later i was working in pro100, a goody as hell program for furniture modeling and i can tell that sketchup is way interesting and easier to work with
My God how this makes it so much easier to learn and tinker in SketchUp, Many years ago I had tried to tinker with it and got 10 minutes in and bailed due to the complexity... thank you so much for this tutorial.
Been using Sketchup for like.. 10 years.. and i still learnt stuff from this video. Big thanks!
I know you posted this video like 6 months ago and the likelihood that you'll see this is incredibly low, but I've wanted to learn this software for quite some time and it's been so daunting and intimidating to the point that I just kept putting it off and telling myself 'I'll do it later' and whatever else excuse came to mind. I just wanted to say thank you (which I don't feel does any justice) so insanely much. I've been a subscriber of yours for years now and I watch every single video you post. I've learned frankly an unfathomable amount from you and still am today. You've inspired me to take on projects that I absolutely never ever would have, and I'm still hoping to chase my own dream of building stuff for people for a living. I genuinely can't convey how much I appreciate all of your content and kindness and how thankful I am for how much you've helped me learn and grow.
Also, I'm proud to say that I've followed along with the entire part 1 video and my/your/our console looks amazing. I'm really pumped for part 2 (which has probably also been up for like 6 months. don't judge me.)
this is how every introductory tutorial should be, assuming the viewer knows absolutely nothing about the topic and skipping no steps even the ones that might look trivial. Well done!
Thanks so much for putting this tutorial together Foureyes! It’s extremely helpful, especially for someone that has struggled with Sketchup. Even better, so nice that you’ve geared this towards woodworkers. So many tutorials are for complex parts for machining, so it’s hard to apply to woodworking if you get lost at all in the process.
Best video about Sketchup ever! Thank You! God Bless You!
I'm a science teacher who left the building craft 25 years ago. Of course, I have a small shop and build furniture and sculptural things a lot. I can't tell you how many "how to" vids on SketchUp I've watched. And they never do what you did first thing: set up units and make something a set dimension! SketchUp for building furniture. YES! I've needed this tutorial for a long time and I'm so grateful for your content. Nice job Chris.
This one is 100 legit, im not even a bot saved my life when i already finished editing thumbs up!
I’ve been wanting to learn this, (coming from other 3D software). Thanks for sharing this. you’re a great teacher!
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This was amazing, thanks. It would be *really* cool if you ultimately built what you're modelling now, showing how you use the model to define cut lists etc.
I'm using Sketchup from more then 10 years and you never stop learning. The / and * tools blows my mind! Thank you very much! 👍👍👍
(PS: I have sympathy for you who use the imperial system...there's a kind of masochism 🤣)
I agree... I'll even catch myself using both on the same project and making a HUGE measurement error (especially since I'm a MM type, not a CM type.)
I feel the same way for those of you who use the metric system.
@@MrKen-wy5dk so the 95% of the world population XD
From Maldives: Al'hamdhu LILLAH. Thank you so much Foureyes Furniture! This tutorial really help me extremely. This tutorial is simple and also the way he guide us is really easy for the beginners. This two part series is outstanding. Thank yo so much for donating the considerable time and effort to make this. Great job! Thank you so much Chris!
This is the exact thing I've been looking for, I've made furniture for 20yrs as a job and need to use sketch up now so this vid is immensely helpful,cheers for doing this for all us non technological woodworkers to follow, you my friend are a legend👏👍👍👍
This two part series is outstanding. Thanks for donating the considerable time and effort to make this available for folks.
This is a great tutorial. I am an avid woodworker and have hacked around with sketchup for years, so I was mainly interested in seeing how a pro works with the app, without getting distracted by a bunch of aesthetic detail. Its already reduced the cursing in my office by 90% haha!
Great video and thank you! I have been using sketchup for about 4 or 5 years... But i did not really dig deep into the learning and just learnt what i needed as i went along. I knew all of the stuff in your video, but not some of the tips and details of the tools. So even for a seasoned sketchup user, this was well worth the watch!
Thanks Squarespace for supporting the whole creator movement and guys with glasses who make these great videos !
Squarespace is Legit :)
I'm not a beginner in Sketchup but if I was this is definitely the video I'd love to find; really clear, extremely well explained & I loved how each piece of knowledge built upon the last. Great job Chris!
Dude! This video BLEW. MY. MIND!!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯I learned to use a few of the basics from Steve Ramsey's video (no discredit to Steve) but this is on another level. The divide by or multiply by is a game changer as are many of the other functions I wasn't aware of. Thank you so much for this. I will definitely be watching Pt.2
This is a blessing! I come from parametric solid modelers like SolidWorks, TopSolid and Fusion 360. Sketchup had me really confused to the point that I basically was ready to give up.
I use CAD mostly for woodworking projects so this was very interesting and I might actually start using Sketchup. Thank you so much for this!
I wish you were my instructor 25-years ago when I first got into CAD & DCC modelling.
Btw, one small FYI is that when an object is duplicated and it's still connected to the original object (reflecting any mods from/to the master object) is called an 'instance'. It's a small detail in vernacular but the reason why is that a 'duplicate' can also be a 'copy' which is a unique component that doesn't reflect the object it was duplicated from. Makes more sense when you're in a conversation with another modeller and describing steps and such... Anyway, awesome channel.
Short and sweet! Most basic for time saving but not on most of other tutorials.
It's hard to overstate how unbelievably helpful this is for novice woodworkers who aren't confident in 3d modeling. This has helped me immensely with laying out my own small side table build. Thank you!
The video is very successful in terms of explanation and instruction. I will now be able to finish tasks that previously took me hours in a short time. Thanks so much Chris. 😊
Thank you - This is what I have been looking for and even signed up to Skill Share - but no real how-to for woodworking projects. Appreciate the time in building this. Will help me out a lot.
Having just started using SketchUp for several home projects this video has cemented some of my learning and also taught me some useful shortcuts and tools to use to be more productive, thank you
Great to hear!
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Building a cabinet for my kitchen. This couldn’t have came at a better time. Thanks!!
Glad I could help!
I have watch an embarrasing amount of SketchUp videos on TH-cam and this one is BY A MILE the best quality and teaching I have seen yet. Nice work, hope you keep them coming, I have alerts turned on! You mentioned SketchUp Make 2017 as a free version, it does have a 30 day free trial, is there a desktop version that does not require a subscription or is using the free web version good enough?
I’ve been trying to use Sketchup for quite some time now, with no success at all. This helped me tremendously! You’re such a good teacher, and I thank you for sharing your knowledge, (and your humor), with us. I really enjoy your channel! 👍🤓
Excellent Chris. Over the years I've dabbled in 3D with a variety of apps... I finish a project and then forget most of what I've learned about that tool's interface. Sketchup made be an app I stick with after watching you walk through this design.
Funnily enough this was a better Sketchup tutorial than most dedicated Sketchup tutorials ive seen and more relevant to what i want to use it for! Cheers!
Wow! This might be THE best explanation I have ever watched on sketchup. Seriously! I taught myself how to this tool previously. I occasionally watch sketch up videos looking for a new nugget. I have never seen such a smooth, clear, intuitive 'instructional' video on software, of all things. You did a wonderful job.
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...i liked how you teach on how you personally use the software the most convenient/efficient way.
Im an Architect and love furniture design! So happy you are back to posting videos! This will be my afternoon fun project
Hope you enjoy it!
@@Foureyes.Furniture omg you answered hehehe yup I am firing up sketch up right now!
Chris, this is one of THE BEST overview and quick start tutorials I have ever watched. I love your style; quick and too the point. You cover a lot of material in a very short time. Your sharing is very much appreciated.
To be honest, there were some things in your process where I was thinking “oh no! Rookie mistake!” But then you addressed how to fix them in much simpler ways that I would have fixed them. (Flip along X axis instead of rotate tool; for example) I definitely learned something from this. Great video!
Love you, bro, it's one of the best tutorials of any software I've been using (I was teaching software to people for many years)❣Clear and effective! Thank you.
i work with sketchup almost daily but i learned a lot! i've never had lesson from a mac user. i use mac myself too and it helped me much! thnx,
looking forward to part 2
Cannot thank you enough. This has changed my life
I like the way you teach how to draw furniture. I just discovered your channel in you tube. The more I see your videos the more I learn. Thank you for your time and effort that you put into it.
I know I'm a little late to the game here, but I love this video SO MUCH that I'm going to say it anyway. Thank you for making what, in my opinion, is the best Sketchup tutorial I have ever seen! (I've seen a lot...)
I have watched these two videos more than any other video I've ever watched on TH-cam. Thanks for this, Chris.
Chris! Thank you for this. I have tried to get my arms around using Sketchup to design simple woodworking projects in the past but all the tutorials, written or recorded wanted to teach me everything, rather than what I need to know to fulfil my simple objectives. Problem solved! Thanks for sharing!!
Yes! I've really wanted you to do some sketch up vids. Thank you!
Hope they are helpful
Wow, fantastic!!! Just echoing all the other comments, but I’m new to woodworking and pretty good at sketching, but not making the components look to scale or having usefully working plans. Will definitely check out Sketchup. You are great at teaching at the right pace and level of detail. Thanks again for the time and effort you put into your videos.
I know lots of other people have said this but, This is so incredibly helpful!
Thanks :)
At last simple explanatory of SketchUp. From a carpenter's point of view. Super Thanks. :)
the best and simpelst video for furniture construction on youtube i ever seen so far. Great work!!!
Dude, you dont know how long we wait for IT, thanks from Poland ;)
Hope you like it!
@@Foureyes.Furniture like always, what you make :)
I love this guy lol don't care about the software but is a good teacher. Keep it up!!!
I’ve used SU, along with other 3D modeling apps, to design furniture for years. It’s not the most powerful, but it’s SO easy to use! Thanks for the tips on using it better!
Hey Chris, this has got to be one of the absolute BEST video tutorials I’ve come across on Sketchup basics in years. I’m one of those woodworkers who’s tried to learn Sketchup off and on for so many years now, and I guess because of the lack of regular usage and continuity it’s a real pain in the @ss every time I try to dive back in and pick up where I’m going wrong and all the bits I’ve forgotten or have been doing badly since the beginning. Hats off to you Sir for putting this together. Much appreciated. Looking forward to the next one. The bit about comparing design ideas is an absolute game changer! Can’t believe I’ve never heard of or thought of that before - Genius 🤯
Thanks man! really useful, very clear. I am in the way to move from Fusion to Sketchup and this video has been very illustrative. Thanks!
This is seriously the best sketchup video instructional I've ever seen here on the tube. No disrespect to anyone else, but the presentation was so well done. Thanks Chris.
Thanks this is excellent! Great for woodworking. I have been overwhelmed by other tutorials but you are excellent at explaining clearly the different things that SketchUp can do that make it a valuable tool to use as an amateur woodworker. I will use this as I reference to help me with Sketchup in the future.
hi, your video is very informative and you are patient enough to show us amateurs how to do the basic stuff. thanks !!
So.. This seems like a great piece of software. I take it you can then layout all the individual pieces with dimensions included so you can work through cutting all your pieces individually. Ive never been one for working from plans. Tend to make things from scratch with a few basic sizes to start with,
10, 10 makes perfect sense. It's like coordinates for where on the X and Y axis you're placing things. And coordinates use ,.
I've been using Solidworks and Autocad at work for years. This is one of the best instructional videos I have ever seen. Well done and thanks as I no longer have access to the CAD programs and am starting with Sketchup.
This looks like the series I need to follow. Appreciate that you actually put the camera on your hands to show the mouse work - that's a nice touch.
Not the most entertaining video, but definitely MOST USEFULL for me. Thank!!!
Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw you upload this video, thanks! I'm fairly new to the channel and I was amazed at the quality of modelling and illustrations you've been including in your videos, and I was hoping you'd share some insights. Great work Chris!
I’ve been using the web version of SketchUp for awhile now, but you explained quite a few shortcuts I didn’t know, as well as more efficient ways to design, so thank you!
I'm glad I decided to watch this. Learnt some tricks I didn't know.
Thankyou very very much
Chris... I have a little workhsop and i commonly used autocad, but i notices that ii´s waaayyy to slow for a forniture design... then you comeout with this tutorials and i said .. why not?!!... and here i am.. :D :D LEARRRNING! THANKYOUU
Really nice and clear. I had already been using SketchUp for a wile but learned some really useful tricks. Nice job!!
I love this, really appreciate it, I watched all of your videos even twice for getting a better understanding of the woodworking project. Keep it up. watching from Pakistan.
Dear Chris, thank you very much for sharing knowledge and experience specially modelling in sketchup, I was searching for the same lecture but did not know you use this software and will share it with us too. Its amazing and supportive. Again thanks brother
Glad it was helpful!
I just discovered you, in late 30's started with sketchup, I like your work so will buckle up and watch.
Welcome aboard!
Used for the first time last night, well, technically this morning aswell.
Because i didn't sleep. Super addictive.
can’t wait to get to the level of designing my own furniture awesome build!
great vid, worth noting that this is for apple/mac hardware, which uses combinations of the command and option buttons, rather than a windows based platform where it uses the ctrl and alt buttons with a regular 2 button + wheel mouse - you can find windows alternatives on sketchup help
Thank you so much. This is the best tutorial I have come across.
Stoked to find this, I think the way you narrate videos and teach is extremely helpful. I have a lot of trouble finding things that can hold my attention long enough to learn.
Thanks so much Chris, this has been the best sketch up tutorial I
I have used so far! Your fast flow is not a negative as your perfectly describe each step and have a perfect balance of WHY and how of each step! I did use the pause and rewind, but I followed along on my sketch well. I look forward to Part2!
Thank you. Most useful ad engaging tutorial I've come across yet.
Chris, thanks so much for the great tutorial. I’m glad somebody is trying to help us out with SketchUp.
I really appreciate the video here. It does go a little too fast, so I had to keep rewinding it to sink it in. Really, every time I tried to learn this application, I ended up very frustrated. I would make one wrong click on my mouse, then boom - the whole damn thing went south! It's about time somebody really looked at it from a beginner's point of view, and taught it accordingly.
Amazing tutorial! I really appreciated you walking through how to create something rather than just explaining the tools.
Hey man, I must disagree with your statement,
There are a lot of people out there teaching that are a whole lot better than me (paraphrasing)
You are easy to follow and your style of teaching I found extremely helpful. I just heard about sketch up and I enjoy building but I’m not good at designing anything. Learning about this program was cool but I became a bit overwhelmed because I’m not that computer literate. I watched your video and you covered everything with such detail and thoroughness that I believe an elementary aged kid easily can follow along and learn this.
I enjoy being a diy’er but designing any idea I’ve had doesn’t always work out the way it did in my mind. I’m hoping learning this program will move me up to the JV squad. I’m reaching out to thank you for your great video.
With a lot of practice and more watching of your videos I hope to one day be in your ear saying, “coach im ready, put me in the game.” Hopefully the Varsity Squad.
Thanks again man. Great job I wish you continued success.
Jaime
I’ve been using a ketchup for about 15 years. Some tips from someone who has a decent amount of experience:
Use components for things you will have multiples of, like table stretchers or legs, shelves, or panels. If you have one that needs to be different right click and make unique. It mill make a new identical component that can be edited without changing all the others.
Groups are nice to clump sets of components together.
Use the arrow keys to lock your lines to orthogonal directions. Up is blue, and left and right are red and green depending on how you look.
Don’t use ctrl+c ctrl+v to copy and paste. It doesn’t always use the point you want as the point you grab. Instead use move, press ctrl at any point before or during the move, and it will create a copy to move and leave the original. After placing you can type x2, x3, or any other number to make an array of several of that item. This is handy for making shelves and other repetitive things.
Using rotate and pressing ctrl you can do the same thing and make an angular array, which is helpful for copying things on a circular face, or making a circular pattern.
The auto grab points are handy, but be careful you pick the correct points. Sometimes it is better to use the arrow keys to lock your direction, and type the number to make sure you aren’t 3/64” off.
This was the best SketchUp tutorial I have seen so far, thank you
Finally I understand how the tools works, thanks Chris
Happy to help
A huge thank you to Chris. Kudos from Brazil.
This is a great video. I prefer Fusion360 mainly because making any changes in dimensions to SketchUp is a very laborious process, sometimes involving redoing the whole thing. This is because SketchUp forces you to choose the dimension before the shape is made and has no concept of relationships. Also, as a maker, Fusion360 is a way more versatile tool to know, since it can do everything that SketchUp can do, plus a lot of other techniques/tools that are better fitted for 3D printing and CNC.
By far, the most useful SketchUp tutorial I've watched! Thanks Chris.