hey all, today was my first ever go at sketch up and this amazingly fantastic easy tutorial took me exactly 5 hours to build this table....yeah yeah I can hear you all laughing but I'm mighty proud....many many thanks for a splendid tutorial Matthias
thanks again for the videos. i just designed my workbench with the M&T's. a quick tip for others. if you are using the push/pull tool and doing the same measurement of another piece enter the measurement as shown, but then on the others you can double click and it will automatically do that measurement. this way you dont have to retype that everytime. Whata great program
Very good, you helped me a lot in all his videos. I learned a lot, even if you do not understand English very well splenic. If you want to allow to leave a tip. In this video I saw you very repeats commands already used once. In SketchUp can use a command once and if you need just two clicks to give it records the last command used. Cheers, and thanks again. Rogerio Fontes (Brazil)
One thing that you will get addicted to when you go to clean up things, especially the non-essential contstruction lines is the eraser too. Simply drag the eraser over the things you want to delete and release the mouse, and they are gone. No extra step of hitting "delete". Start it by hitting 'e' I find that knowing and using the keyboard shortcuts speeds things up tremendously. 'T' for tape measure, p for pushpull Q for rotate, r for rectangle, C for circle.
Yes, but that would hide all the edges. I want to keep some edges around. I really wish one could select the style on a per object basis though. That would be cool.
thanks for this introduction. ... good explained in an English, that is good to understand ! ! ! ... not the rule for some other tutors, whom I cannot follow easily cause of their slang and fast speaking.
Excellent Tutorials. One thing you can do with the eraser is to hold down the shift key when clicking a line to hide it. Great for removing lines around curves and chamfers.
To delete construction lines go to EDIT, delete construction lines and all will be gone, to activate the arrow just press spacebar and the arrow will be selected. Great video's
Also, instead of hiding an edge to keep it from showing, hit "entity Info" and check or uncheck the appropriate check box. If you don't do this and you have previous things hidden that you want to show again, then you will have to unhide the lines you really want hidden too. The entity box allow you to make a line 'soft', 'smooth', and controls if it casts shadows.
Amen to that. The first thing I did when I loaded XP and Win7 was change it back to the Windows 2000 Server look. No need for the goofy/frilly/bubbly look.
Very nice use of the copy/paste and objects. That's what I need to do more of to improve my efficacy. Could you maybe do something with draws to show you you go about creating them?
Great videos and super teaching capacities. Could you add a fourth in this series to explain "Cutlist" the popular Sketchup plugin, thank you in advance.
Those were recorded on windows XP actually. But I prefer windows. We all prefer paper that is opaque, square, and a consistent colour. Why can't we have that on a computer anymore?
Quick tip. In Preferences, Shortcuts, I assigned my D key to Edit/Delete Guides. After using them I can just press D and poof they're all gone. D key isn't assigned to anything by default.
It is always a wonder watching your videos. Thanks for taking the time to do them. In this video it seems you toggle to orbit very quickly. Can you tell me how? I am sure it is a simple thing
That is really nice, but i think the table could've used some darker color, because it kinda looks like plywood. That's just my personal preference though.
I noticed that while watching this video, I was hitting the roller button of my mouse trying to move around on your video thinking that I was actually in Sketchup XD
Matthias, you make woodworking look so effortless. I've been watching for a while now, and was excited to hand craft a mortise and tenon in my shop class. Unfortunately it ended up taking over and hour for one joint and was not completely square. All I had available for the mortise and tenon was a hand drill and chisel set. We weren't allowed the drill press as it was supposed to be all hand crafted. Any tips? My next project has more than one of these joins.
Thanks for sharing those videos, they are very helpful. I just have one question as my English is not so perfect, can you explain me how to move object UP ? thanks again.
there's also a plugin for sketchup for drawing gears. very nice tool, it can do bevel, helical, rack and pinion as well as planetary . will you review it in your tutorials?
Hello Mattias, First thanks for the tutorials, question? any other way or command to do all the corners at once same for legs, ? i understand the components going to be modified once the unique object is edited but i 'm talking about the element it self ? thanks
Hi i was just wondering how on the table top you got the lines around the top and bottom faces to murge as one? i bet "A Blob" where the round corner (Arch) meets the straight edge i've used soften and smooth tool to remove the vertical line that you get from using the push pull tool but cant seem to get rid of the blobs.
Wich program do you use to make this kind of videos? maybe someone already asked you but i couldn't find it. Thanks! and keep doing videos about your work, they are great!
Not sure if you knew this or not, but there is a free tool that you can download that does chamfers, rounds and round overs. It is easy to use and is great for making crown molding. If your interested, I can send you the link.
Hello, How do you make the scenes in your plans show each part individualy? everytime I try to do that I can only control the 'camera' movement, and when I try to isolate a part, it does it in all the scenes. hope you can answer. Thanks!
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm trying to apply the chamfer to the tabletop, and it works on square corners, but a top with rounded corners adds extra faces on the sides. Help!
Hmm, I can't get the push pull tool to recognize the corner to be trimmed. Just doesn't select. Anyone else have this and know off the top of their head why? Edit: OK, so I got it after a couple minutes. I hadn't opened the table top object by itself. I did, redrew the arc tangential to edge. Then it would 'push/pull' so I could trim.
When adding the chamfer to the tabletop, after offsetting it, why don't you just drag the outside edge down 0.3cm rather than dragging the inside edge up then moving the whole thing back down. That way you retain the thickness.
Thanks, Matthias - I really appreciate your putting the time into these excellent vids.
Thank You Matthias for this video even after 6 years. Still valuable.
What a great CAD lesson. This is where I come for my sketchup refresher class.
Thank you for spending the time to put these videos together. They have been very helpful to me as a sketch up beginner.
Thanks Matt, your tutorial is excellent and really appreciated. You da man!
Thanks! These tutorials apply directly to a project I have been working on.
This has helped so much! Finally able to design things easily and more accurate!
Gorgeous table. Excellent tutorial.
hey all, today was my first ever go at sketch up and this amazingly fantastic easy tutorial took me exactly 5 hours to build this table....yeah yeah I can hear you all laughing but I'm mighty proud....many many thanks for a splendid tutorial Matthias
thanks matt for all these videos tutorials, it does make things easier. regards.
thanks again for the videos. i just designed my workbench with the M&T's. a quick tip for others. if you are using the push/pull tool and doing the same measurement of another piece enter the measurement as shown, but then on the others you can double click and it will automatically do that measurement. this way you dont have to retype that everytime. Whata great program
Great set of tutorials. I like yours better than the Google series.
The way you explain and show is really great. As if this was done following a well written script. It's a plain joy watching.
Well done. And, using the cursor-arrows to lock in direction of drag; excellent tip! Very helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for the corner radius lesson Matthias. That was helpful.
Brilliant! Lots of basic features I didn't even know about. Thanks. More please!!!!
you're an amazing woodworker/inventor.
honestly, i am never going to use anything you talked about in this video, but for some reason i watch every one and enjoy them. lol
Thanks for the tips, sir. Just what I needed.
Oh, another thing I didn't know! Thanks!
thank you for sharing this, you have made me a better sketchupper!!! :) :) :)
Give this dude mad props
Thanks dude. The element regarding construction lines [1:33] was especially helpful.
This is VERY helpful! Thank you!!
Thank you for these great videos
xO Holy cow. I didn't know you could hide lines.
THAT'S SO AWESOME!
Very good, you helped me a lot in all his videos. I learned a lot, even if you do not understand English very well splenic.
If you want to allow to leave a tip. In this video I saw you very repeats commands already used once. In SketchUp can use a command once and if you need just two clicks to give it records the last command used.
Cheers, and thanks again.
Rogerio Fontes (Brazil)
One thing that you will get addicted to when you go to clean up things, especially the non-essential contstruction lines is the eraser too. Simply drag the eraser over the things you want to delete and release the mouse, and they are gone.
No extra step of hitting "delete". Start it by hitting 'e'
I find that knowing and using the keyboard shortcuts speeds things up tremendously. 'T' for tape measure, p for pushpull Q for rotate, r for rectangle, C for circle.
Yes, but that would hide all the edges. I want to keep some edges around.
I really wish one could select the style on a per object basis though. That would be cool.
Thank you, great solution!
Love the tut! Thanks :)
See my video on "designing the tilting router lift"
i needed to know this soo bad. ty soo much for this posting.
thanks for this introduction. ... good explained in an English, that is good to understand ! ! ! ... not the rule for some other tutors, whom I cannot follow easily cause of their slang and fast speaking.
under component edit, select to hide other components.
Very usefull ! Thanks a lot. I wish you made more of these... Soon ?
Thanks again !
Excellent Tutorials. One thing you can do with the eraser is to hold down the shift key when clicking a line to hide it. Great for removing lines around curves and chamfers.
To delete construction lines go to EDIT, delete construction lines and all will be gone, to activate the arrow just press spacebar and the arrow will be selected.
Great video's
Also, instead of hiding an edge to keep it from showing, hit "entity Info" and check or uncheck the appropriate check box. If you don't do this and you have previous things hidden that you want to show again, then you will have to unhide the lines you really want hidden too.
The entity box allow you to make a line 'soft', 'smooth', and controls if it casts shadows.
Great tips!!
Matt.. If you select edit and delete guides (construction lines), you'll remove them with one shot.
hahahha
Thanks dear, this was what i was looking for.
Because the outside edge is much harder to select
Amen to that. The first thing I did when I loaded XP and Win7 was change it back to the Windows 2000 Server look. No need for the goofy/frilly/bubbly look.
thank you for sharing this :) (just noticed this vid was posted 8 years ago) :-)
Great educational video. Thank you for sharing. :)
I used SketchUp before. but now I use a long PRO100. Most frendly program for furniture design. a little outdated but still is good and very simple.
Thanks so much!
And that will delete the edge and the surfaces attached. to it. Not what you want, just try it.
Very useful. Thanks a lot.
Very nice use of the copy/paste and objects. That's what I need to do more of to improve my efficacy. Could you maybe do something with draws to show you you go about creating them?
Great videos and super teaching capacities. Could you add a fourth in this series to explain "Cutlist" the popular Sketchup plugin, thank you in advance.
I don't think it is, and it was not intentional.
Thank you so much Matthias
I didn't know that. But just tried it, an I couldn't get that to work.
Those were recorded on windows XP actually. But I prefer windows. We all prefer paper that is opaque, square, and a consistent colour. Why can't we have that on a computer anymore?
Quicker way to "hide" the edges is to use the eraser tool and just told shift while you click on lines (or click and drag over multiple)
Thank you!
THANK YOUUUU
When you push/pull to a certain depth, you can double click on your next selection to automatically get the same depth.
Quick tip. In Preferences, Shortcuts, I assigned my D key to Edit/Delete Guides. After using them I can just press D and poof they're all gone. D key isn't assigned to anything by default.
It is always a wonder watching your videos. Thanks for taking the time to do them. In this video it seems you toggle to orbit very quickly. Can you tell me how? I am sure it is a simple thing
Thanks, I learned a lot from this video.
Egy egyszerű asztal 3D megrajzolásán is rengeteget lehet tanulni.
#Sketchup #3D
amazing
That is really nice, but i think the table could've used some darker color, because it kinda looks like plywood. That's just my personal preference though.
I noticed that while watching this video, I was hitting the roller button of my mouse trying to move around on your video thinking that I was actually in Sketchup XD
Matthias, you make woodworking look so effortless. I've been watching for a while now, and was excited to hand craft a mortise and tenon in my shop class. Unfortunately it ended up taking over and hour for one joint and was not completely square. All I had available for the mortise and tenon was a hand drill and chisel set. We weren't allowed the drill press as it was supposed to be all hand crafted. Any tips? My next project has more than one of these joins.
Regarding rounding the corners with the Arc-tool: when selecting the second mark and double-click, it'll remove the excess part automatically.
Thanks for sharing those videos, they are very helpful. I just have one question as my English is not so perfect, can you explain me how to move object UP ? thanks again.
hahaha pompous and brit! the complete opposite to cheap and yank!
Good vids btw!
there's also a plugin for sketchup for drawing gears. very nice tool, it can do bevel, helical, rack and pinion as well as planetary . will you review it in your tutorials?
I agree with that.
Thank you thank you thank you.
Check his other tutorials in this series. He explans it in one of them, and it is quite handy.
@ 5:15 you can actually simplify it with drawing a line tangent to the edge. select the edge then click the face with the follow me tool.
thankyou for this
Hello Mattias, First thanks for the tutorials, question? any other way or command to do all the corners at once same for legs, ? i understand the components going to be modified once the unique object is edited but i 'm talking about the element it self ? thanks
Thanks alot
Hi i was just wondering how on the table top you got the lines around the top and bottom faces to murge as one? i bet "A Blob" where the round corner (Arch) meets the straight edge i've used soften and smooth tool to remove the vertical line that you get from using the push pull tool but cant seem to get rid of the blobs.
Wich program do you use to make this kind of videos? maybe someone already asked you but i couldn't find it. Thanks! and keep doing videos about your work, they are great!
@axel1973w I think he just likes the look haha, no real reason. I find it helps to keep them there so you know what the heck you did.
"Push Pull those into oblivion"
Not sure if you knew this or not, but there is a free tool that you can download that does chamfers, rounds and round overs. It is easy to use and is great for making crown molding. If your interested, I can send you the link.
did you make the table top a component?
I’ve been watching your videos on sketchup which version is it please.
There is a plugin called roundcorner. pretty amazing
+FutureSoundStation I use many plugins in my tutorials. But working with sketchups basic tools is the way to learn best.
Very Primeval software comparing to the other 3D modeling software's......great effort by the instructor though
You never used Sketchup did you?
eraser tool with option key (on mac) will soften a line.
Thanks for the tip!
Big help
hold down the middle mouse button.
Hello,
How do you make the scenes in your plans show each part individualy?
everytime I try to do that I can only control the 'camera' movement, and when I try to isolate a part, it does it in all the scenes.
hope you can answer. Thanks!
Wait @1:22 How did you isolate the tabletop??
What software is?
hi, how to select a only one element for edit, im try but can't
Another great vid but wait: we forgot to taper off the legs down.....
Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm trying to apply the chamfer to the tabletop, and it works on square corners, but a top with rounded corners adds extra faces on the sides. Help!
Do you need the pro version for this? Because it's not working for me and I just downloaded the free version a few days ago.
Nevermind. Had to re-select the tabletop after I made the arc in order for it to work.
What sketchup version are you using?
8
Hmm, I can't get the push pull tool to recognize the corner to be trimmed. Just doesn't select. Anyone else have this and know off the top of their head why?
Edit: OK, so I got it after a couple minutes. I hadn't opened the table top object by itself. I did, redrew the arc tangential to edge. Then it would 'push/pull' so I could trim.
+zero_sum Thanks so much! :)
Thank you, I was stucked at the same part
When adding the chamfer to the tabletop, after offsetting it, why don't you just drag the outside edge down 0.3cm rather than dragging the inside edge up then moving the whole thing back down.
That way you retain the thickness.