Build drawers out of component pieces, and if you don't have solid panel doors, build them out of rails, stiles and panels. Rule #1: It is important to make EVERYTHING a component - gable ends, rails, stiles, bottoms, even drawers and doors.įirst, build your cabinet out of basic component pieces like panels, rails and stiles. Maybe that’s at least in part why those consultants are all such fans.I just did that - Sort of. It’s like an entire industry has developed around SketchUp. MY GOSH there are a lot of workshops, seminars, teachers, consultants, and YouTube makers involved in showing people how to use it. Which brings me to my last point about SketchUP. Woodworkers work with boards – cut them, place them in their design, and join them together. I see on other videos people have written plug-ins to pull off parts lists and such (Who do you call when the plugin fails?) – so there’s more there than I know.īut at the very base level – woodworkers don’t extrude parts into the third dimension or pull objects into the ‘red’ or ‘blue’ directions to make them bigger. I am not a SketchUp expert – or user even. Or certainly using SkechtList 3D – given integrated reports and all it offers. I might be more happy using some basic drawing program to make boxes on the screen. But be prepared to invest the time to learn it. I’d say if you need CAD to design some real complex carving or three dimensional part – you probably should use some sort of a CAD product. SketchUp is a general design tool – CAD – that was marketed at woodworkers. The video went on to make doors in which the rails and stiles were no more than lines – again – pulled out into a third dimension of a block as if 2 rails and 2 stiles exist as one molded part. No consideration that it’s pretty hard to buy a 12-foot sheet of plywood. Process? The ‘parts’ go into the SketchUp design as flat rectangles waiting to be pulled into the third dimension. How do you think the two designs compare in quality? (Sure the author hadn’t finished ‘coloring’ them. SketchUp is really a CAD/engineering type program in cabinet design software clothing. Now maybe the author isn’t a woodworker but more of a CAD expert so we can’t fault him. SketchList 3D image is on the left and shows wood grain and transparent glass shelves.Įach part is a separate board and can be moved, re-sized, and changed easily. The image shows the same bookcase design from both software packages. Not at least in my shop! Can’t even carry it in! One video I saw had an entertainment center 12 feet long created with a 12 foot by 6 foot by 3-foot block of white material with its middle parts hallowed out! ProblemsĬan’t make that in the shop for many reasons. I didn’t believe it way back then and I don’t believe it now. How can the blogger community go on and on about how great SketchUp is for woodworkers. So I started looking at YouTube videos of people using SketchUp. Well I’ve been busy and never really looked back until the folks at Rockler asked for a comparison between the two cabinet drawing software tools. Honestly, I couldn’t figure out SketchUp at all.Īnd over the years I have received tons of emails from people who have that same experience. In fact, that was one reason I decided to start SketchList. I looked at SketchUp for cabinet design as a tool before I started SketchList.
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