Dear Matthias, please let me share with you one trick that makes dull push-pull operations faster: After pulling first side of table top by precise distance (5 cm), you can just double click on other three sides ad Sketchup will pull them by same distance - no need to input 5 cm manually.
Thanks Matthias for this series of sketchup tutorials, very clear and structured. Very good for DIY furniture design. 3D helps to see collisions between parts. Vielen Dank.
well, I too have an important background in engineering technical drawing, and I find these videos quite enjoyable. he doesn't show useless commands, and goes straight to the point, at the opposite of most other sketchup tutorials.
Thanks for sharing all the wonderful videos Matthias. As I started watching , I thought "man his voice sounds familiar", then it dawned on me that I had watched your pantarouter video. Very creative indeed. Keep up the awesome work
I recently bought the Read Watch Do Instructional for Sketchup not realising that you had this video series. I intend to get a handle on this eventually and I just want to say that you are an exceptional teacher. His ebook covers a tremendous amount of material and is a great resource but I like the way you just cut to the chase. Great job Matthias.
i don't even do joinery, or design classes but this is one of the best tutorial videos i've seen. might use it for drawing up future room setups. thanks vm.
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I am a regular visitor of your channel, so it is eaisier for me to follow compared to when watching any other Sketchup tutorials.
technically you should have flipped that 4th table apron too. I love sketchup and have been using it for several years now. Thre are soooo many tips. Like when you have the four edges of the table and you want to make them all go out by the same amount... do the first one say 5cm. then on the other three, just double click. it will use the last push-pull amount, and you don't have to keep typing in 5cm each time.
Dude, end cards. You don't have to re shoot the video- just go to edit, get rid of annotations, click end screen & annotations, add element, and then put in a link (like you have in text in this video) into the open field there and click save. That's it. Now your viewers can find and navigate to your woodgears easier and are 1000% more likely to do it instead of having to type it in. Love ya man!
Wow, this is very helpful. Thank you. I'm trying to get the hang of using SketchUp, but it can be a bit of a struggle until you get used to it. These tutorials are great. Keep up the great work.
A little tip... after you have extruded a side by 5cm you can just double click the next side and it will automatically extrude it by 5cm :) Btw... I learned a lot by this small tutorial, thank you.
I agree with hypnolobster -- especially with saving an element as a Object so that it can be copied by itself -- I believe (haven't really tried it yet) that the entire table can be selected and saved, such as if you're designing a restaurant and can 'stamp' tables all over, as well as chairs (even making 'sets' as objects) :-)
Hi Matthias, a very good video and easy to understand. The tricks with Susan for the construction is amasing. Well done ! I subscribed immediately your channel. One little question : It's possible to create wood toys for my children ? I'im looking for trucks or cars or something like ramp walking toys. If you have one solution or example, a would be very happy. Olivier from France
I can just listen to you and understand what you say... unlike other videos that no matter how hard you try.. you cannot understand a word only thing I'd like to see in your videos is serieses / playlists of the same subject (sketchup, marble machine etc.) for easier navigation :) Thanks.. youre awesome :D
@bryphi77 Yes. You right click your selection and use the flip tool, or you can use the scale tool and use -1 as the scale factor (which I prefer actually)
@Satanro666 Hi there, I had problems with that a while back. What you need to do when you go to print is: 1) Set to "parallel projection" and you may want to "zoom extents" 2) deslect "fit to page" and "use model extents" 3)set the scale to 1:1 (or whatever you need) 4)print preview 9/10 it is not in the centre of the page If so highlight what you are printing and right click "make component" and using the pan tool move it around so it is in the centre when you print preview. Print!
Hi mattias, I just started using sketchup, after seeing some of your tutorials which were very helpful. Thanks so much for that. The thing is, when I'm practising in sketchup, and I selected the same style as you did, my faces are still transparant, so I can see the edges and axes throug all the faces. I find this very annoying, and I have tried lots of options, without good results. Do you have a solution for this? Thanks so much and keep up the good work!
I made the same table,but i have to used steel hinges at the corners because i dont have skills and machinery for joints.The result is a nice table made out of a second world war era shiny lacquered east european wardrobe door desktop and wooden stair railings. :)
yes,an old ugly soviet era furniture.It was already torn into sheets due insufficient space,i made a table before it became firewood.Anyway,im not into this antique thing,it was ugly as hell...
very good tutorial itsi really helpful and sir i have new version of sketch up in this version some option is missing like model info so is it possible to make drawing in new version 2016 sketch up
I suggest that if you don't use it yet, make use of components instead of objects. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is single editing. With a component, like a leg, you want them all to be the same. (or a screw or whatever). if you edit one of them to make the leg longer, or to add some flutes to it or whatever, then they all get the same thing. That way you don't have to edit each one individually. Making simple objects doesn't allow that, they are all unique
Just downloaded sketchup. Its a far cry from MicroStation. But then again, MicroStation is a bit ponderous for woodworking. This is a great video tutorial. Keep it up.
How can change dimensions of the rectangle for example? Lets say I made a mistake and i entered 4.2,4.5 in the box ( manually) but now I want to fix the mistake. I can't find any info on this, beside scale.....which is useless.
Just a question. I have never done SketchUp, but tons of Photoshop. After you created the leg and apron rail, why not group the two components and copy/rotate them 3 more times for a complete table bottom? Thank you!
Great video!! Question: How do you rotate the object to work on different sides? I didn't see that you selected the orbit tool. Is there a keyboard shortcut?
Still, after watching this, I cannot work out how to just create one leg, copy it 4 times and drag them around onto a flat panel. It's amazing how many ways this program can thwart what you want to do - every time I go to move something, something else is stuck to it
That is the idea of the make component tool. It separates the geometry so things don't stick. Draw one leg or any shape, select that whole shape and make component. Then whatever you draw after you close out component edit will not stick to other component. Make sure when you make component to select make current selection a component also. You may have figured this out already I see it is a month old but for anyone else...
Got it i'm stupid. I have drawn the table. The only I can't to get to happen is when i copy and paste the leg and drag it, it doesn't give me the red line it gave you. Thanks for the vid
Mathias, Do you know if Sketch up can be loaded into a computer using Windows 8? I have tried and cannot download to my new computer with windows 8. Hey, thanks for all of your videos, they are all very interesting. I especially enjoyed the vids of your Dads shop.
Just DL'd this program because I wanted to build a custom desk to the quality of that of a professional woodworker. I would have gave up on it due it being too much to deal with unless I saw this video. TY so much
@TeenWoodworker Also, if you use one of the standard views... say 'top', then it will allow you to do 1:1 printing. but be sure to do the parallel projections as you say. I do this often so that if I have a pattern I want to transfer, I can mirror image it, print it out, and the transfer it to the wood with a common iron. Printer ink is commonly plastic that melts. its a nice trick
4:33 Duplicating the object and moving it. Select the Move tool ( ) from the toolbar or press M. The cursor changes to a four-way arrow. To tell SketchUp that you want to duplicate the selected entities, press and release the Ctrl (Microsoft Windows) or Option (Mac OS X) key. Next to the four-way arrow cursor, a plus sign appears. Click the selected entities.
Programs of this magnitude need to be intuitive when it is being used. This would stop an easter egg hunt to find the next step in use. If I were younger I would go to work for Microsoft to make windows really shine instead of nibbling around the edges to make it work better... that process is a never ending job and customers will flee to the first OS that shows a promise of intuitiveness.
Great tutorial as always, Matthias. I have one question. When you rotate the legs and apron rail at 5:40, I'm having trouble getting the copied rail to end up anywhere near where yours did. It's usually out from the leg, and a bit to one side or the other. I then have to move it quite a bit I guess I don't know where to click the starting point properly. Any ideas? Thanks.
Thank you for the tutorials- very nice work. Do you know why some of us cannot find the option for "Engineering Style?" Perhaps it has been removed from Version 15?
Peter Grimstad It turns out that the Engineering Style was available in the version that had Susan in the scene. Now we have Steve instead, and no Engineering Style. It does not really matter much. ;-)
Ohhhh... I have the Mac version and there is no "Units" on the prefs panel.. that's ok since I could choose the engineer template; and there is no "enable length snapping" either... this explains why I'm having a hard time placing things next to each other. I've switched to a machine with Windows and still those options are not there... which version you used ? I downloaded the one I found the link in one of your woodgears.ca site, version 8.0.16846 (my Mac version is 8.0.16845) Thanks for the tutorial.
I want to use this program to design a VEX robot, using the 3D Warehouse in sketch up for pre-made parts, is there a way to constrain a part to another? such as making one edge with another?
Many thanks, I been tryin to find out about "build it yourself baby furniture" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Venoffison Wooden Exploration - (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my friend got cool results with it.
woops, there was something missing, as i try to make the surface of the table i get mortises in the surface where the apron rails are the moment i drag it into 3d. the other thing is im missing susan :(
Dear Matthias, please let me share with you one trick that makes dull push-pull operations faster: After pulling first side of table top by precise distance (5 cm), you can just double click on other three sides ad Sketchup will pull them by same distance - no need to input 5 cm manually.
I just started with Sketchup, and your tutorials have really helped me. Thanks!
You're very good at explaining things. You take us through every step of your thought process, I see it in a lot of your videos. A born teacher.
The first 3 minutes of this video explained how to use this thing better than anything I’ve seen. Thank you so much!
Thanks Matthias for this series of sketchup tutorials, very clear and structured. Very good for DIY furniture design. 3D helps to see collisions between parts. Vielen Dank.
well, I too have an important background in engineering technical drawing, and I find these videos quite enjoyable. he doesn't show useless commands, and goes straight to the point, at the opposite of most other sketchup tutorials.
Thanks for sharing all the wonderful videos Matthias. As I started watching , I thought "man his voice sounds familiar", then it dawned on me that I had watched your pantarouter video. Very creative indeed. Keep up the awesome work
Wow now that I know you can just input the numbers you want instead of trying to get the correct size, has just opened a new world to me
I recently bought the Read Watch Do Instructional for Sketchup not realising that you had this video series. I intend to get a handle on this eventually and I just want to say that you are an exceptional teacher. His ebook covers a tremendous amount of material and is a great resource but I like the way you just cut to the chase. Great job Matthias.
I know this is an old video, but thanks so much for slowly and carefully explaining things in simple language. And metric for many of us Brits 😅
I just watched the official tutorial for 17mins and I learned much more from your video. Thanks!
thank you so much matthias; your tutorials for sketchup are the best.
i don't even do joinery, or design classes but this is one of the best tutorial videos i've seen. might use it for drawing up future room setups. thanks vm.
I'm using the sketchup for the first time and this video helped me very well. Thank you.
You got a good voice that makes it clear for me to understand what you are talking. Nice tutorial. Keep it coming. Another sub here!
Thanks Matthias! Very good tutorial, actually the best so far.
Very glad you're doing this. You have an extremely helpful method of explaining things.
Thank you. Excellent tutorial. A table is my first project with SketchUp.
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I am a regular visitor of your channel, so it is eaisier for me to follow compared to when watching any other Sketchup tutorials.
This was such a good tutorial, I feel like I learnt so much of the basics from this one video. Thanks for your help.
technically you should have flipped that 4th table apron too.
I love sketchup and have been using it for several years now. Thre are soooo many tips. Like when you have the four edges of the table and you want to make them all go out by the same amount... do the first one say 5cm. then on the other three, just double click. it will use the last push-pull amount, and you don't have to keep typing in 5cm each time.
My very first Sketchup tutorial. What a lecture. Thanks a zillion. Perfect start to my Sketchup Adventure
Your tutorial was more helpful than the "official" tutorial vids by Google.Thumbs up!
Thanks for the tutorial, Matthias.
Looks like a good program to learn.
Dude, end cards. You don't have to re shoot the video- just go to edit, get rid of annotations, click end screen & annotations, add element, and then put in a link (like you have in text in this video) into the open field there and click save. That's it. Now your viewers can find and navigate to your woodgears easier and are 1000% more likely to do it instead of having to type it in. Love ya man!
3:49 - Adding the component tool.
1) Click View
2) Click Customize toolbar
3) 2nd row....very top...."make component".
Took me about 20 minutes to find this...2017 Sketchup.
Wow, this is very helpful. Thank you. I'm trying to get the hang of using SketchUp, but it can be a bit of a struggle until you get used to it. These tutorials are great. Keep up the great work.
There's many ways to do it, I just figured that was the quickest and easiest to explain.
WOW, you saved me ! i must finish my project till 25 december, and i was stuck at printing it !!! THANK YOU FROMm AL MY HEART !
Wow! this tutorial is fast and easy to understand. Thankyou for making this, i hope you made more sketchup tutorials.
Didn't know that at the time. I have gotten a few useful hints from having made these!
A little tip... after you have extruded a side by 5cm you can just double click the next side and it will automatically extrude it by 5cm :)
Btw... I learned a lot by this small tutorial, thank you.
It uses the local numbering convention. If you switch everything to english on your computer, then its periods and commas.
Very helpful and clear directions. Thank you for doing these videos.
Just type them in. They appear on the bottom right, but no need to move the mouse there.
Thanks alot Matthias, you are a very good teacher
Thanks for this! Made sketchup a lot easier for me. I always used AutoCAD and programs like that.
I agree with hypnolobster -- especially with saving an element as a Object so that it can be copied by itself -- I believe (haven't really tried it yet) that the entire table can be selected and saved, such as if you're designing a restaurant and can 'stamp' tables all over, as well as chairs (even making 'sets' as objects) :-)
A really good video for beginners. Thanks a lot.
Hi Matthias, a very good video and easy to understand. The tricks with Susan for the construction is amasing. Well done !
I subscribed immediately your channel.
One little question : It's possible to create wood toys for my children ? I'im looking for trucks or cars or something like ramp walking toys. If you have one solution or example, a would be very happy.
Olivier from France
Thanks for the great tutorial!
I can just listen to you and understand what you say...
unlike other videos that no matter how hard you try.. you cannot understand a word
only thing I'd like to see in your videos is serieses / playlists of the same subject (sketchup, marble machine etc.) for easier navigation :)
Thanks.. youre awesome :D
thanks , that's the kind of tutorial that i was looking for !!!!
@bryphi77 Yes. You right click your selection and use the flip tool, or you can use the scale tool and use -1 as the scale factor (which I prefer actually)
Love what your doing.
Because you use commas for your numbers, because of your locale. Switch your computer to "us, english", and then 4.5,4.5 is what you need to type.
Pretty good tutorial. Thanks. I'm just started learning SketchUp.
Subbed for more.
@Satanro666
Hi there, I had problems with that a while back. What you need to do when you go to print is:
1) Set to "parallel projection" and you may want to "zoom extents"
2) deslect "fit to page" and "use model extents"
3)set the scale to 1:1 (or whatever you need)
4)print preview 9/10 it is not in the centre of the page
If so highlight what you are printing and right click "make component" and using the pan tool move it around so it is in the centre when you print preview.
Print!
Hi mattias, I just started using sketchup, after seeing some of your tutorials which were very helpful. Thanks so much for that. The thing is, when I'm practising in sketchup, and I selected the same style as you did, my faces are still transparant, so I can see the edges and axes throug all the faces. I find this very annoying, and I have tried lots of options, without good results. Do you have a solution for this? Thanks so much and keep up the good work!
I made the same table,but i have to used steel hinges at the corners because i dont have skills and machinery for joints.The result is a nice table made out of a second world war era shiny lacquered east european wardrobe door desktop and wooden stair railings. :)
sounds like you ruined and antique to make ikea furniture?
yes,an old ugly soviet era furniture.It was already torn into sheets due insufficient space,i made a table before it became firewood.Anyway,im not into this antique thing,it was ugly as hell...
very good tutorial itsi really helpful and sir i have new version of sketch up in this version some option is missing like model info so is it possible to make drawing in new version 2016 sketch up
Thanks Matthias, it was a great help!
extremely helpful video matthias, as usual!
I suggest that if you don't use it yet, make use of components instead of objects. There are several reasons for this, but the main one is single editing. With a component, like a leg, you want them all to be the same. (or a screw or whatever). if you edit one of them to make the leg longer, or to add some flutes to it or whatever, then they all get the same thing. That way you don't have to edit each one individually. Making simple objects doesn't allow that, they are all unique
love your videos, Was wondering if you could do one on adding a .dae file to sketchup please. Thank you
Just downloaded sketchup. Its a far cry from MicroStation. But then again, MicroStation is a bit ponderous for woodworking. This is a great video tutorial. Keep it up.
I use MicroStatiion at work and would have to agree. This satisfies my needs for some "rough" planning for some weekend wood working projects.
This is great! Thankyou so much for doing this.
hello, thanks for the turtorials on all that stuff that seems to interest you. including cad.
How can change dimensions of the rectangle for example? Lets say I made a mistake and i entered 4.2,4.5 in the box ( manually) but now I want to fix the mistake. I can't find any info on this, beside scale.....which is useless.
Good tutorial but you should always group your shapes before starting another one so they dont stick and you can move them around without hassle.
agree with sidar1, your Videos are much more helpful than those google produce, thanks for getting me started :)
Just a question. I have never done SketchUp, but tons of Photoshop.
After you created the leg and apron rail, why not group the two components and copy/rotate them 3 more times for a complete table bottom?
Thank you!
Is there a mirror tool? That would make some things easier... I know other software has it.
Great video!! Question: How do you rotate the object to work on different sides? I didn't see that you selected the orbit tool. Is there a keyboard shortcut?
Still, after watching this, I cannot work out how to just create one leg, copy it 4 times and drag them around onto a flat panel. It's amazing how many ways this program can thwart what you want to do - every time I go to move something, something else is stuck to it
That is the idea of the make component tool. It separates the geometry so things don't stick. Draw one leg or any shape, select that whole shape and make component. Then whatever you draw after you close out component edit will not stick to other component. Make sure when you make component to select make current selection a component also. You may have figured this out already I see it is a month old but for anyone else...
At ~6:40, you have two legs and two apron rails. select the whole mess, copy it, and rotate 180 degrees. Boom, four legs and four rails.
awesome video man , thanks for sharing
Got it i'm stupid. I have drawn the table. The only I can't to get to happen is when i copy and paste the leg and drag it, it doesn't give me the red line it gave you. Thanks for the vid
cool table :)
Sick !!! I am ready to Build !!!! thank you !!!!
thanx man...this helps me out alot
Mathias,
Do you know if Sketch up can be loaded into a computer using Windows 8? I have tried and cannot download to my new computer with windows 8. Hey, thanks for all of your videos, they are all very interesting. I especially enjoyed the vids of your Dads shop.
do you have to purchase sketchup in order to actually change the length value opposed to using the free 30 day trial?
Just DL'd this program because I wanted to build a custom desk to the quality of that of a professional woodworker. I would have gave up on it due it being too much to deal with unless I saw this video. TY so much
Wow this looks very easy thanks
@TeenWoodworker Also, if you use one of the standard views... say 'top', then it will allow you to do 1:1 printing. but be sure to do the parallel projections as you say. I do this often so that if I have a pattern I want to transfer, I can mirror image it, print it out, and the transfer it to the wood with a common iron. Printer ink is commonly plastic that melts. its a nice trick
4:33 Duplicating the object and moving it.
Select the Move tool ( ) from the toolbar or press M. The cursor changes to a four-way arrow. To tell SketchUp that you want to duplicate the selected entities, press and release the Ctrl (Microsoft Windows) or Option (Mac OS X) key. Next to the four-way arrow cursor, a plus sign appears. Click the selected entities.
"We have Susan here. [...] She's kind of shallow, she's just a silhouette." Haha, great!
And thanks to this software, you can determine the dimensions of her Va-Jay-J.
Which sketchup edition are you using?
That helped me a lot thanks.
Programs of this magnitude need to be intuitive when it is being used. This would stop an easter egg hunt to find the next step in use. If I were younger I would go to work for Microsoft to make windows really shine instead of nibbling around the edges to make it work better... that process is a never ending job and customers will flee to the first OS that shows a promise of intuitiveness.
Great tutorial as always, Matthias. I have one question. When you rotate the legs and apron rail at 5:40, I'm having trouble getting the copied rail to end up anywhere near where yours did. It's usually out from the leg, and a bit to one side or the other. I then have to move it quite a bit I guess I don't know where to click the starting point properly. Any ideas? Thanks.
I tried using SketchUp 8 but I couldn't, the newer version has lots of features this one doesn't have.
What kind of careers require work like this to do on sketchup or something like autodesk inventor?
Thank you for the tutorials- very nice work. Do you know why some of us cannot find the option for "Engineering Style?" Perhaps it has been removed from Version 15?
I can't find it either.
Peter Grimstad It turns out that the Engineering Style was available in the version that had Susan in the scene. Now we have Steve instead, and no Engineering Style. It does not really matter much. ;-)
Ted St. John Alright :)
Thanks, appreciate the tutorial.
this is awesome videos!
Thank you for the great video.
BASIC TUTORIALS IS HELPFUL, THANKS
Ohhhh... I have the Mac version and there is no "Units" on the prefs panel.. that's ok since I could choose the engineer template;
and there is no "enable length snapping" either... this explains why I'm having a hard time placing things next to each other.
I've switched to a machine with Windows and still those options are not there... which version you used ? I downloaded the one I found the link in one of your woodgears.ca site, version 8.0.16846 (my Mac version is 8.0.16845)
Thanks for the tutorial.
where do i get engineering style? i have the free sketchup version and engineering style isnt in thewe? Great vids. Subscribed
I want to use this program to design a VEX robot, using the 3D Warehouse in sketch up for pre-made parts, is there a way to constrain a part to another? such as making one edge with another?
Thanx a lot, very comprehensive:)
wow thanks dude for the quick class :)
Look under styles. I'm using the free version.
best SU tutorial!!!!
Am I the only one that is sad about Susan?
im also sad about susan
Well, she was kind of shallow..
at least she gives you a good sense of perspective
Many thanks, I been tryin to find out about "build it yourself baby furniture" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Venoffison Wooden Exploration - (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my friend got cool results with it.
Learning by imitating you .
Thanks a lot , no nonsense talk just going to target .
Thank you very much for the help.
woops, there was something missing, as i try to make the surface of the table i get mortises in the surface where the apron rails are the moment i drag it into 3d. the other thing is im missing susan :(