I have been using SketchUp for many years and was very fluent as you. I am 79 years old and had a stroke two years ago. It left me in a wheel chair and a lot of my memory is gone. I used mostly SketchUp, Design Cad, and Auto Cad. When I came home I could not remember a thing in any of them. Today, I spent the whole day going over your tutorials and most of it came back to me. I just want to thank you for taking the time to do what you do.
Hi, I enjoyed your videos on SketchUp. I am 74 years old and suffered a stroke. At this stage I have retained most facilities and memory. I am trained as a design drafting officer, trade as fitter and turner, and a builder. Have decided to document my skills in the honour of my son who passed away last year at 51 years old. Thank you for providing this information for everyone to learn and create.
Hi Les - really glad I've been able to help you with this a bit, and that you're able to continue using SketchUp. Sorry to hear about your son - my son is 2 1/2 right now and I can't imagine what that was like - stay strong!
TheSketchUpEssentials Ive watched this a few times now. The copy, paste and multiplying geometry us what I'm keying on to. Plus there were some actions like rotating and flipping pieces that I need to improve on. Great job on these videos.
This was great because I didn't realize until watching this that there actually aren't that many woodworkers on TH-cam with a great grasp on the intricacies of this program. They show a way of doing something like this, but you really seemed to show the most intuitive and least finicky way, along with a lot of functionality they never seem to use either (my Sketchup video tutorials have been limited to woodworking and you're literally the first one I've seen mention the arrow keys to lock to axis, dividing lines, and intersecting geometry).
Excellent lesson - thx. New user here. I'm a fabricator both wood and metal. I think the popular term is "Maker." Took 2 semesters of autocad R13 in college a long time ago . . . I think we were using windows 98 . . yep, a long time ago. Really appreciate the way you run the lessons. Will definitely be watching more and supporting your channel.
In my opinion Justin gives the best sketchup videos I have ever watched. He knows all the nuances of sketchup that the other instructors don't mention. The only criticism of him is that sometimes he assumes that the viewer is much more familiar with sketchup than they are. Sometimes he does things so fast that I have to google up how to do them in sketchup. He gave an example of dividing a line equally so fast that I had to go to another sketchup to see how he did it. He probably does this so the video doesn't get too long. Besides that he is brilliant.
This is perfect for a new user like me. I am a woodworker and want to use SketchUp to help me design my projects. I think this is going to work perfectly for me...I have the Shop edition, but seeing some of the things you are able to do, it looks like I should upgrade to the Pro edition. Again thanks for the videos!
19:56 don't erase them out! just push them in with the push/pull-tool. you push the first one in to the depth you need and hen just click on every next and it will repeat the previous depth automatically.
Cool - thanks Jim! I'm planning on doing a "Woodworking Month" pretty soon where I try to focus on some more Woodworking applications. Thanks for watching!
Man have you made my day. I have watched a ton of these videos but yours have been the BEST OF ALL. I especially like this one for the dovetailing because I do a lot of dovetailing. THANKX
The box joint can be drawn much simpler. Simply copy the top end line multiple times down the end of the board. Then simply push the top resulting square/rectangle or next section and then double click every other one. Done. You do not need to draw all of the geometry, simply copy the top end line multiple times and then push.
Awesome! Learned so much new stuff in this one video. Now I know what intersect faces does, and that I can multiply copied geometry, and that I can double-click to perform an operation over and over...great stuff.
I have been watching a couple of your videos and your really good and make it look so easy. I hope I can get good like you someday. Appreciate your tutorials
Lol - I appreciate that - definitely not a carpenter, though I do hope to someday build a workshop and actually create some of the stuff I model :) Glad you liked it!
I have been really loving the videos which have been very helpful. Could mention which tool you are using before you use it. Sometimes you move too quickly before I can see which tool that you click on.
I try to do that as much as possible - it's surprising how hard that becomes the more videos I make - probably because I'm always in a rush trying to get everything filmed. In future videos, I've at least added a highlight to my mouse so it's easier to follow what I'm doing. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks Justin for the reply I was wondering also can you send me a link that shows me how to line up an object so that it can be inserted into a slot accurately? Like a board into a dado.
Is there an easy way to use the protractor to get the mitered angle drawn and shown in SketchUp 2020 Pro vs. drawing the line as you've shown? Your tutorials are awesome. Keep 'em coming, please! Thanks for all you've done.
I really like your tutorials. They are clear and concise. At about 4:55 you create a new rectangle on the face of the object, extrude the rectangle, then move it away from the object. I can't get that to work. The new extruded part seems attached to the original object. How do you do that?
How would I make a miter joint with a gap between the boards. Such as the picture frame of a deck where you want to allow room for expansion/contraction?
I'm a carpenter in training and this is very useful for projects we do in school. SketchUp has become a default tool for us but we get no training in how to use the program so this is very much appreciated
Hey mate, from someone that was okay at using Sketchup, I am loving your tutorials. Im learning a lot of little tricks and its helping heaps. So Thank you. I have a question, at 9:30, you create segments, how did you do that? i
For the 2nd part of the dove tails, you could've just push-pull the surface created with the intersection with model, instead of errasing lines...much much faster.
Dovetail section (~18:42). Can you explain how you selected and then deleted the dovetails from the second board. I wasn’t able to replicate that part. Thanks.
Love your videos very well done, I didn't know your weren't a wood worker so I just wanted to let you know what the correct woodworking tums are for the joint you called "the peg piece and the socket, it is called a mortis and tenon going. I also would like to know how you c divided one of your model into 3 equal lengths? I will be watching more if you tutorials. Thanks for your hard work Dan the tooljunkie woodworker.
Lol - Clearly my woodworking terminology needs some work :p - If you right click on a line, there's an option for "divide" which will allow you to divide lines into equal length segments. Did that help? Thanks for watching!
Hey Thanks man. I'm assuming you could just make these pieces ONCE, and save them as TEMPLATES to use for whatever projects you want to make? Could you just use the scale tool, to change the wood piece sizes for different projects ? Seems like it'd save a LOT OF time to just build these once, copy and paste them and rescale according to what you want to build ? Hope I explained that right lol
Should be able to if you're re-using the same pieces over and over again. You'd have to be a bit careful with the scale tool, as it would also distort your joints, but if you could work around that, it should work fine - thanks!
great video, I was surprised that when you copy an entity for example the first box joint (the tongue and the groove) that when you copy it doesn't copy the groove and you have to redo it again.
I'm mostly interested in the finger joints and dovetails: 1) I don't understand how you are editing these complex boards without making the board a component, and then clicking "edit component" first! 2) Why don't you simply use the protractor to draw the first set of diagonal lines for the dovetails. Most woodworkers I know use either a 1:6 ratio for softwoods and a 1:8 ratio for hardwoods when cutting dovetails. It would be easier to draw the dovetails using a 7.1 degree angle to draw the faces of the dovetails accurately. 3) the method you used for creating the dovetail board is fine. You used the Push/Pull tool to "push out the first dovetail and then double-clicked to make the remaining dovetails. Perfect! But when you created the pin board, you used a different method. I don't understand why you chose to use a different method to do the second board when you could have used the same method you used on the first. Makes no sense, and it's too hard to remember all the steps you used to create the pins. Additionally, your method required 3 or four steps on each pin, and you never did the pin bottoms, only the tops. Disappointing, dude. Usually your stuff is GREAT! Not today.
@@Thesketchupessentials that's not the point. Your training and education of non-technical woodworkers is outstanding and virtually unmatched by anyone else in the industry. I normally love your videos and am subscribed (with notifications). However, I'm struggling with dovetails and drawing them without losing faces and making an error somewhere that causes my entire project to be subject to ghosting, disappearing components, extra lines showing up in the oddest places. I rely on you to provide a simple, elegant approach to creating drawings of this type of joinery. You let me down with this one! First, please explain to me how you can edit a board, creating pins and tails without creating a component and editing said component first. Is that even legal? (Kidding) Second, intersecting faces between two components does not work when one of the components is in Edit Component mode. When you intersect faces outside of edit mode, additional lines are drawn that remain as artifacts after you push/pull the waste out of the pins or tails board. You have to group select the artifacts and delete them after removing the waste. PITA! Third, it would help me (and others I'm sure) if you explained some of the mystery moves you make as you are blazing through your process. I often have to watch pieces of your videos two, three, and sometimes four times to figure out what you did. You also use keystrokes to change tools (M for move, T for measuring tape, etc.), but you don't verbalize that keystroke to your audience making your steps very difficult to follow at times. I love your work and totally respect your expertise with SketchUp. Please take these comments as they are intended--to make a great instructor even better. Keep up the great work! --Bill
Good woodworking video! In the tongue and groove scenario, what command did you use to divide one side into 3 segments? The more I watch, I realized I am doing things the hard way while yours seem like a breeze! --- Updated edit: Never mind I found the answer in another comment!
I am new to sketchup so forgive my ignorance, I would like to create an object (lets say a box) and then send it to a SVG file so that I can cut it on my Laser. Is that possible? Also, can I print a materials (cut) list so that I can build my objects?
Justin, for 3D printing purposes, using your method to 'fill in' surfaces that became rendered as hollow, would you happen to know whether the STL file also renders the piece 'filled in,' or does the STL represent the piece as still being hollow?
You can right click on a line in any version of SketchUp and pick "Divide" to divide an edge into multiple equal parts. Let me know if it works for you!
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I have been using SketchUp for many years and was very fluent as you. I am 79 years old and had a stroke two years ago. It left me in a wheel chair and a lot of my memory is gone. I used mostly SketchUp, Design Cad, and Auto Cad. When I came home I could not remember a thing in any of them. Today, I spent the whole day going over your tutorials and most of it came back to me. I just want to thank you for taking the time to do what you do.
Really glad I could help! :)
Hi, I enjoyed your videos on SketchUp. I am 74 years old and suffered a stroke. At this stage I have retained most facilities and memory. I am trained as a design drafting officer, trade as fitter and turner, and a builder. Have decided to document my skills in the honour of my son who passed away last year at 51 years old. Thank you for providing this information for everyone to learn and create.
Hi Les - really glad I've been able to help you with this a bit, and that you're able to continue using SketchUp. Sorry to hear about your son - my son is 2 1/2 right now and I can't imagine what that was like - stay strong!
Im brand new to sketchup and using it for woodworking projects. Really appreciate your tutorials.
Awesome Rick! Let me know if you have any questions!
TheSketchUpEssentials Ive watched this a few times now. The copy, paste and multiplying geometry us what I'm keying on to. Plus there were some actions like rotating and flipping pieces that I need to improve on. Great job on these videos.
Thank you for good tutorials. I like the way toy explain things.
This was great because I didn't realize until watching this that there actually aren't that many woodworkers on TH-cam with a great grasp on the intricacies of this program. They show a way of doing something like this, but you really seemed to show the most intuitive and least finicky way, along with a lot of functionality they never seem to use either (my Sketchup video tutorials have been limited to woodworking and you're literally the first one I've seen mention the arrow keys to lock to axis, dividing lines, and intersecting geometry).
Great guide to woodworking joints. The intersect faces makes my work much easier. Thanks
Awesone - glad you found it helpful Mark!
Excellent lesson - thx. New user here. I'm a fabricator both wood and metal. I think the popular term is "Maker." Took 2 semesters of autocad R13 in college a long time ago . . . I think we were using windows 98 . . yep, a long time ago. Really appreciate the way you run the lessons. Will definitely be watching more and supporting your channel.
Hi Dennis - Thanks a lot for the support! Really glad you're finding them helpful!
In my opinion Justin gives the best sketchup videos I have ever watched. He knows all the nuances of sketchup that the other instructors don't mention. The only criticism of him is that sometimes he assumes that the viewer is much more familiar with sketchup than they are. Sometimes he does things so fast that I have to google up how to do them in sketchup. He gave an example of dividing a line equally so fast that I had to go to another sketchup to see how he did it. He probably does this so the video doesn't get too long. Besides that he is brilliant.
This is perfect for a new user like me. I am a woodworker and want to use SketchUp to help me design my projects. I think this is going to work perfectly for me...I have the Shop edition, but seeing some of the things you are able to do, it looks like I should upgrade to the Pro edition. Again thanks for the videos!
19:56 don't erase them out! just push them in with the push/pull-tool. you push the first one in to the depth you need and hen just click on every next and it will repeat the previous depth automatically.
I had to come down and scroll the comments as soon as I saw that to see if someone had already brought that up.
I watch this again after quite a while. This is greatly helpfull. Thank you!❤
As a woodworker, I found this video to be very informative...Thanks so much.
Cool - thanks Jim! I'm planning on doing a "Woodworking Month" pretty soon where I try to focus on some more Woodworking applications. Thanks for watching!
Really appreciate the videos concerning woodworking topics. Do more when you can please.
Man have you made my day. I have watched a ton of these videos but yours have been the BEST OF ALL. I especially like this one for the dovetailing because I do a lot of dovetailing. THANKX
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just love these woodworking techniques, great relaxed teaching style..
Thank you very much!
Amazing video that thought me alot. Than you so much for this
Since I only recently discovered your channel, I hadn't seen this before. These are much easier than the way I'd been doing them. Thanks.1
Thanks Jim - Glad you liked it!
Awesome... lots of tips on little short cuts!
I'm new to Sketchup and this is really helpful, thank you
You're very welcome!
Great video, thanks!!
Great stuff, love it.
great video, thanks very much
excellent video!! Im a woodworker and I found this very helpful
Glad it was helpful!
show de bola! greetings from Brazil!
Love the woodwork!! excellent!
I'm new to your series and like the way you are teaching us... I would like more woodworking techniques as well as designing for the lathe. Thanks.
I am new to Sketchup and you give some of the best tutorials. Keep up the awesome work!
Glad you like them!
Great stuff!!!!! Thanks
Thanks Justine! Your way to explain things makes me push for learning more!..
The box joint can be drawn much simpler. Simply copy the top end line multiple times down the end of the board. Then simply push the top resulting square/rectangle or next section and then double click every other one. Done. You do not need to draw all of the geometry, simply copy the top end line multiple times and then push.
You could do it that way as well if you find that faster - whatever works for you
Thank You! I like all your videos. All your step by step explanations are very clear and useful. Thank You!!
I love all your sketchup skills video's!! Thanks
Glad you like them!
Beautiful
Enjoyed this video very much. You make it look very easy. I enjoy any Sketchup video that involve woodworking.
Thanks Jim - glad you liked it!
Really nice.
Awesome! Learned so much new stuff in this one video. Now I know what intersect faces does, and that I can multiply copied geometry, and that I can double-click to perform an operation over and over...great stuff.
Good stuff...thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for the teaching. Great work!
Awesome, thanks. I have been using sketchup to create dovetails and I need to do lots of cleanup. This gave me some new idea's to speed the process up
Awesome - glad you found it helpful!
VERY helpful. Thanks!
I have been watching a couple of your videos and your really good and make it look so easy. I hope I can get good like you someday. Appreciate your tutorials
Thanks John - the more you practice, the better you get!
Brand new woodworker. I found this to be very Helpful. Thanks for taking the time to do it.
Awesome! Glad you found it helpful!
Lots of good Sketchup TIPS there, very watchable : )
Thank you!
Thanks Justin! Learned a lot!
Thanks Joel - glad you liked it!
Very useful thank you
Thanks. I learned a ton today.
Glad to hear it!
Very helpful Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Very interesting mind gimnastics . Thank you !
Thanks! This will definitely help me with designing furniture!
so helpful
thanks brilliant
Great job for not being a carpenter. More woodworking videos please.
Lol - I appreciate that - definitely not a carpenter, though I do hope to someday build a workshop and actually create some of the stuff I model :) Glad you liked it!
I have been really loving the videos which have been very helpful. Could mention which tool you are using before you use it. Sometimes you move too quickly before I can see which tool that you click on.
I try to do that as much as possible - it's surprising how hard that becomes the more videos I make - probably because I'm always in a rush trying to get everything filmed. In future videos, I've at least added a highlight to my mouse so it's easier to follow what I'm doing. Thanks for the comment!
Thanks Justin for the reply I was wondering also can you send me a link that shows me how to line up an object so that it can be inserted into a slot accurately? Like a board into a dado.
Very helpful! Thanks so much!
Thank you. Great instruction.
This is an amazing informative video, thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much Justine ,,, really thank you for your recommend .
Thanks a lot!
I love it. Thanks
Great work. Yes, I’d love too see more woodworking videos. Great job.
awesome
You are just great Man! I learned a lot from you. Big Thank you (Y)
Great video.
Thank you! :)
Is there an easy way to use the protractor to get the mitered angle drawn and shown in SketchUp 2020 Pro vs. drawing the line as you've shown? Your tutorials are awesome. Keep 'em coming, please! Thanks for all you've done.
Great video. Thanks for doing it. One question for you (or anyone else), I can't seem to be able to model a dado on a miter joint. Can anyone help?
I really like your tutorials. They are clear and concise.
At about 4:55 you create a new rectangle on the face of the object, extrude the rectangle, then move it away from the object. I can't get that to work. The new extruded part seems attached to the original object. How do you do that?
Did you put the original object in a group? It needs to be grouped to keep the geometry from merging - thanks! :)
How would I make a miter joint with a gap between the boards. Such as the picture frame of a deck where you want to allow room for expansion/contraction?
Definitely a Likey and more videos are expected.
Awesome - Glad you liked it!
Great video
Thank you!
good job man...thank's
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HI I just wonder， why not use solid tools for the dovetail joints? It seems that you can just subtract geometries using solid tools?
not too shabby for a none woodworker THANKS
very helpful
Thanks Eugene!
You have a new subscriber!
Very useful content thank you
I'm a carpenter in training and this is very useful for projects we do in school. SketchUp has become a default tool for us but we get no training in how to use the program so this is very much appreciated
Awesome - really glad you found it useful!
were two solid components i created with tenon on end. can send file if helps to see type of design i created with your great tutorials
Hey mate, from someone that was okay at using Sketchup, I am loving your tutorials. Im learning a lot of little tricks and its helping heaps. So Thank you. I have a question, at 9:30, you create segments, how did you do that? i
For the 2nd part of the dove tails, you could've just push-pull the surface created with the intersection with model, instead of errasing lines...much much faster.
Actually, probably an even faster way would have been to just draw in the dovetails before I even push/pulled the wood piece at all :)
Dovetail section (~18:42). Can you explain how you selected and then deleted the dovetails from the second board. I wasn’t able to replicate that part. Thanks.
Love your videos very well done, I didn't know your weren't a wood worker so I just wanted to let you know what the correct woodworking tums are for the joint you called "the peg piece and the socket, it is called a mortis and tenon going.
I also would like to know how you c divided one of your model into 3 equal lengths?
I will be watching more if you tutorials.
Thanks for your hard work
Dan the tooljunkie woodworker.
Lol - Clearly my woodworking terminology needs some work :p - If you right click on a line, there's an option for "divide" which will allow you to divide lines into equal length segments. Did that help? Thanks for watching!
13:30
How did drawing a single line "heal" all the holes?
Thank You very mutch
Thanks for watching!
Hey Thanks man.
I'm assuming you could just make these pieces ONCE, and save them as TEMPLATES to use for whatever projects you want to make? Could you just use the scale tool, to change the wood piece sizes for different projects ?
Seems like it'd save a LOT OF time to just build these once, copy and paste them and rescale according to what you want to build ? Hope I explained that right lol
Should be able to if you're re-using the same pieces over and over again. You'd have to be a bit careful with the scale tool, as it would also distort your joints, but if you could work around that, it should work fine - thanks!
This is very helpful, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
great video, I was surprised that when you copy an entity for example the first box joint (the tongue and the groove) that when you copy it doesn't copy the groove and you have to redo it again.
As far as I know, there's no way to do this (but I really wasn't looking for a way to do it either :) ) Either way, thanks for watching!
Could you make a tutorial video of flat pack joints to cut on cnc routers?
Sorry, I'm not sure what this is...
@@Thesketchupessentials flat pack furniture with no screws
You should slow down on short cuts. Say what they are slower. Liked the techniques.
Thank sir
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I'm mostly interested in the finger joints and dovetails:
1) I don't understand how you are editing these complex boards without making the board a component, and then clicking "edit component" first!
2) Why don't you simply use the protractor to draw the first set of diagonal lines for the dovetails. Most woodworkers I know use either a 1:6 ratio for softwoods and a 1:8 ratio for hardwoods when cutting dovetails. It would be easier to draw the dovetails using a 7.1 degree angle to draw the faces of the dovetails accurately.
3) the method you used for creating the dovetail board is fine. You used the Push/Pull tool to "push out the first dovetail and then double-clicked to make the remaining dovetails. Perfect! But when you created the pin board, you used a different method. I don't understand why you chose to use a different method to do the second board when you could have used the same method you used on the first. Makes no sense, and it's too hard to remember all the steps you used to create the pins. Additionally, your method required 3 or four steps on each pin, and you never did the pin bottoms, only the tops.
Disappointing, dude. Usually your stuff is GREAT! Not today.
Ummm...sorry? Hope you can find whatever it is you're looking for somewhere....
@@Thesketchupessentials that's not the point. Your training and education of non-technical woodworkers is outstanding and virtually unmatched by anyone else in the industry. I normally love your videos and am subscribed (with notifications). However, I'm struggling with dovetails and drawing them without losing faces and making an error somewhere that causes my entire project to be subject to ghosting, disappearing components, extra lines showing up in the oddest places. I rely on you to provide a simple, elegant approach to creating drawings of this type of joinery. You let me down with this one!
First, please explain to me how you can edit a board, creating pins and tails without creating a component and editing said component first. Is that even legal? (Kidding)
Second, intersecting faces between two components does not work when one of the components is in Edit Component mode. When you intersect faces outside of edit mode, additional lines are drawn that remain as artifacts after you push/pull the waste out of the pins or tails board. You have to group select the artifacts and delete them after removing the waste. PITA!
Third, it would help me (and others I'm sure) if you explained some of the mystery moves you make as you are blazing through your process. I often have to watch pieces of your videos two, three, and sometimes four times to figure out what you did. You also use keystrokes to change tools (M for move, T for measuring tape, etc.), but you don't verbalize that keystroke to your audience making your steps very difficult to follow at times.
I love your work and totally respect your expertise with SketchUp. Please take these comments as they are intended--to make a great instructor even better. Keep up the great work!
--Bill
Good woodworking video! In the tongue and groove scenario, what command did you use to divide one side into 3 segments? The more I watch, I realized I am doing things the hard way while yours seem like a breeze! --- Updated edit: Never mind I found the answer in another comment!
Glad you found the answer Marc! :)
I am new to sketchup so forgive my ignorance, I would like to create an object (lets say a box) and then send it to a SVG file so that I can cut it on my Laser. Is that possible? Also, can I print a materials (cut) list so that I can build my objects?
6:18-6:22 how to do that with move tool? That two pieces lined up, but separated?
Is it only with shift
Love it. Still learning how to use SU. Not sure how you got the edge to show the number of segments. Been trying to do it but fail each time.
how do you get that gaint tool bar i just started and only have the default toolbar
Assuming you're on the desktop version - th-cam.com/video/JDD7RiRHZ7o/w-d-xo.html
Justin, for 3D printing purposes, using your method to 'fill in' surfaces that became rendered as hollow, would you happen to know whether the STL file also renders the piece 'filled in,' or does the STL represent the piece as still being hollow?
Sorry - don't know the answer to this as I haven't done a lot of STL exporting
I just found interesting plugin for woodworking >> L’Air du Bois : Toolbox for Sketchup
where is the divide tool?
Why not use the the trim tool instead
Thanks for the video. Are you using the pro version of Sketchup or Sketchup Make?
I believe it would have been the pro version in this video, but everything here can be done in the make version as well
Justin, on the tongue and groove you highlighted an edge and divided it. Is that dividing command in Make or is it in a plugin?
You can right click on a line in any version of SketchUp and pick "Divide" to divide an edge into multiple equal parts. Let me know if it works for you!
TheSketchUpEssentials Found it, thanks!
Thank you ! I like your clip video.
:)