Recent content by weekender410

I guess his tutorials sometimes assume you've learned how to use the basic tools in SketchUp already.

Here's another approach to drawing dovetails that I think is easier. And even easier than that is the method shown here.

See it here, too. ;)

Mark, your comments are interesting to me. It sounds like you're a bit of a pioneer. I'm curious about your statement about joints being "pretty tricky in other software." What other software are you comparing to?

Report your findings, please.

Woodcrafter, that's a good testamonial for SketchUp except for one thing. It's no wonder you couldn't get on with SketchUp 9 since there never was a SketchUp 9. ;) The version after SketchUp 8 was and is SketchUp 2013.

xy, it is indeed. Thank you.

There are still some who don't believe.

I like your pineapples anyway. :D Well, now you've bought a tool to do what you need, you may not need this but there's a guy in the US who taught me how to print to scale in SketchUp and it's quite easy. He made a tutorial for it, too. He did a thing on xy-mosian's plugin, too. Both work just...

xy_mosian did a very nice, free plugin that allows you to print to full size out of SketchUp. He wrote about here in this forum. It's worth taking a look at if you need to print full size patterns. Printing directly out of SketchUp is not difficult at all but it seems many people don't want to...

Simon, just ignore Jacob. As usual, he's an ass. SketchUp is a good aid to use for visualizing your project. Nathan, that's a good idea. I like the second one. It would be easy to cover up the game without disturbing it and certainly the extra surfaces will be handy.

They are drawn reversed.

You might find this useful information. You should look at this, too. The Solid tools only work on "Solid" components and groups. Union is one of the Solid Tools, which is only available in the Pro version of SketchUp. When your 8 hour trial period runs out, those tools will go away as SketchUp...

Are those supposed to be dovetails at the corners?

What do you mean by that? Could you be more specific?