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®
Guide
for
Woodworkers
By Timothy S. Killen
Text © 2010 by Timothy S. Killen
Photography by Timothy S. Killen, © 2010 by The Taunton Press, Inc.
Drawings by Timothy S. Killen, © 2010 by The Taunton Press, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Killen, Timothy S.
Google SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers / Timothy S. Killen.
ISBN-13 978-1-60085-341-8
ISBN-10 1-60085-341-2
Contents
c h a p t e r
o n e
Introduction.........................................................
1
c h a p t e r
t e n
More Tools and Functions .................................
66
c h a p t e r
t w o
How to Set Up SketchUp for Woodworking .........
4
c h a p t e r
t h r e e
The Modeling Environment and Toolbars.............
7
c h a p t e r
f o u r
How to Use Basic SketchUp Tools .....................
11
c h a p t e r
f i v e
Learn to Draw Precisely.....................................
18
c h a p t e r
s i x
How to Make, Move, Copy, Edit,
and Connect Components.................................
24
c h a p t e r
e l e v e n
How to Use Photographs
and Scanned Images ........................................
74
c h a p t e r
t w e l v e
Advanced Modeling Techniques ........................
80
c h a p t e r
t h i r t e e n
Advanced Detail Modeling
Using the Intersect Command.........................
102
c h a p t e r
f o u r t e e n
How to Add Color and Texture
to Your Model..................................................
122
c h a p t e r
f i f t e e n
How to Create an Effective
Package of Shop Drawings..............................
127
c h a p t e r
s i x t e e n
Printing Full-Size Templates
and Other Scenes............................................
133
Index ...............................................................
137
c h a p t e r
s e v e n
Create Your First SketchUp Model.....................
29
c h a p t e r
e i g h t
How to Design and Construct Joints..................
36
c h a p t e r
n i n e
How to Begin and Develop
a Piece of Furniture...........................................
44
C H a P T E R
O N E
Introduction
F
or years I’ve wanted to draw
components detailed in the model, you
can use SketchUp to generate full-size
templates for the shop. That makes con-
struction much simpler, faster, and more
accurate, with less reworking and fewer
delays to sort out discrepancies. You also
gain a better understanding of construc-
tion details, which pays off when you
tackle the real project in the shop.
SketchUp’s price is right—free. The
no-cost download has all the features
you need to produce the most complex
woodworking projects and compre-
hensive shop drawings. A Pro version,
priced at $495, includes capabilities and
features for importing and exporting files
to and from various CAD formats, add-
ing information to models, and produc-
ing documents exported in the Adobe
PDF format.
Most of the books and tutorials I’ve
seen are designed to help architects,
landscape designers, and builders master
SketchUp. They aren’t always well suited
to woodworkers, who use SketchUp in
unique ways. That’s why I’ve created
this book for professional and hobby-
ist cabinetmakers, furniture-builders,
and designers as well as woodworking
teachers. My book will show you how
to do the following:
• Develop a complete piece of furni-
ture from scratch or from photos or
images imported into SketchUp.
• Create shop drawings, documents,
and full-size templates.
my furniture plans in full-size
three-dimensional (3D) models. I
dreamed of “building” the furni-
ture on the computer as if I were in the
shop, shaping each spindle, board, and
panel and assembling them into a fin-
ished product. Existing two-dimensional
(2D) computer-aided design (CAD) sys-
tems were okay, but they didn’t let me
view the project from any angle or check
its integrity as it developed. I wanted a
design program that gave me exploded
views of assemblies, perspective color
images, and the ability to ensure that
complex joints fit together properly.
Finally, I found what I wanted—Google
SketchUp. I’ve been using this program
since 2005 and will never go back to 2D
CAD, nor will I enter the shop without
first creating a piece in SketchUp.
SketchUp opens up drawing capabili-
ties once available only to professional
designers and illustrators using esoteric,
expensive CAD systems. Now you can
create virtual furniture, using SketchUp
to create each piece of wood and hard-
ware, complete with every joint detail.
You can view and check every aspect
of the furniture with SketchUp’s array
of viewing options, including easily cre-
ated exploded and X-Ray views. With
SketchUp, you can design furniture full
of complex shapes and angles, such as a
Windsor chair or a Chippendale lowboy
with cabriole legs. Once you have all the
Figure 1. An assembled view of a Philadelphia fan-back armchair. With SketchUp, even
complex pieces like the turned chair legs can be easily created, copied, rotated, and joined
to other components.
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In short, SketchUp allows you to
quickly and accurately make a detailed
model to generate the dimensional
views and full-size templates necessary
for basic shop construction.
There are limits to what I can do in
SketchUp, however. I learned this when I
developed the Maloof-style rocker shown
on page 3. I couldn’t possibly create a
beautifully sculptured chair in SketchUp,
but I didn’t need artistic sculpturing in
the model. What I gained from SketchUp
were sizes, angles, joint details, bandsawn
shapes, and full-size templates. The final
artful sculpturing so important to a Ma-
loof design would have to come from
studying photos or an actual piece.
I also bump into SketchUp’s limitations
on Windsor chairs. SketchUp shows the
complex assembly, with parts connected
at various angles, but it’s not easy for me to
render the final shaping and sculpting of
the seat, arms, and crest rails. Nevertheless,
I would not know how to start a Wind-
sor without first working out all the parts,
angles, and connections in SketchUp.
Perhaps someday SketchUp will in-
clude a woodworker’s toolbox equipped
with drawknives, travishers, files, and
spokeshaves. Meantime, I’ll be quite
Figure 2. An exploded view of the top of an American highboy. Once you’ve drawn the
individual elements of a piece of furniture, you can display them in numerous ways without
having to redraw anything.
• Make any woodworking joint,
no matter how complex.
• Assemble paneled doors and
drawers.
• Shape cabriole legs, back slats,
steam-bent parts, scrolled aprons,
tapered legs, and the like.
• Design and shape complex
moldings.
• Render turned drawer knobs,
table legs, chair stretchers, bowls,
and spindles.
times as needed. You can rotate or flip
the copies to orient them properly. And
any change you make to one copy auto-
matically appears in the others.
If you want to reproduce a piece of pe-
riod furniture, you can import a scanned
image of the original into SketchUp, then
use the image to determine exact sizes
and re-create original shapes.
In SketchUp, there is no need to draw
multiple views of an object. With a few
mouse clicks, you can view the model
or its pieces from any angle and at any
size. You can easily create an exploded,
orthographic, or X-Ray view.
SketchUp’s Scenes feature lets you isolate
and enlarge a portion of a large or com-
plex piece, such as a drawer in a highboy,
without having to create a separate draw-
ing. Scenes let you generate a complete,
detailed, printable design document.
SketchUp’s special strengths
(and limitations)
When you work in SketchUp, you create
“components.” These are 3D elements
that define a piece of furniture—a leg,
stiles and rails, a drawer front, and so on.
For multiples, like table legs and drawer
sides, you draw one and copy it as many
Figure 3. These drawings of a cabriole leg show SketchUp’s versatility. You can show the
overall component with dimensions, in two-dimensional views, or in perspective views to show
complete details of the joints, such as the dovetail socket and mortises.
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