Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Case Study on Google SketchUp Furniture by Dave Richard


David Richard is fine woodworker living in Rochester, Minnesota, maintains critical life support equipment in the Anesthesia Dept at Mayo clinic in day as well as an authorized Sketchup trainer, teaching on popular blog finewoodworking.com in night. In an interview he shared few of his important knowledge on Sketchup, so lets find out what are those..

How does he use Sketchup..?
He said, “Typically drawing plans is very important for any project so that any woodworker can easily understand & build”. Using sketchup he found anything can be drawn in detail of any machine view and instructional manuals initially. “Some of the project may require some designing work and collaboration with clients while other projects involve only creating plans for existing furniture” he added.   


What was his first reaction using Sketchup..?
“I first heard about the Google Sketchup pro, then spent long time looking for few video & took help from forums and finally downloaded it worked & I was pretty much pleased with the software” he said. Very quickly he learned to create a 3D perspective view of a real object with dimension. He found it much easier than CAD and finally bought it & soon realized that Sketchup pro is really big tool to boost his shop.  

  
How does he co-operate another tool with Sketchup..?
At first he use a layout design to create plan documentation from Sketchup model which is a key part of the process and then uses Microsoft Excel & Word to deal with CSV file as well Photoshop and Paint.NET. Sometime he uses Style Builder to make his own Sketchup line style.


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