At the 2012 JLC LIVE show, Gary Katz presented a seminar called High End Finish Carpentry: Advanced Techniques – Coffered Ceilings; Wainscoting; Solving Problems with SketchUp. A veteran Sketchup user himself, Gary has been using the program to help visualize his carpentry work for many years. During the show, Gary was kind enough to sit down and share a few …
Sketchup’s Preconfigured Toolbars
Sketchup provides you with two preconfigured “tool sets” that show a predetermined set of commonly used tools. The “Getting Started” tool set and the “Large tool set”. When I configure my workspace, sometimes I’ll use a combination of preset toolbars and I’ll select a few individual tool sets of my own. The problem is I can never remember which tools …
Setting up your workspace
Things to think about when configuring your Sketchup workspace. There are more tool sets, windows, and palettes in Sketchup than you’ll know what to do with. And depending on what kind of modeling you’re doing, you may want to configure your workspace in different ways. There are some essential windows that you should have opened at all times. I am …
History of Sketchup
Origins SketchUp was created to be a 3D modeling program that is powerful, but easy to use. Most people think it was originally created by Google, but actually, it was first brought to us by @last Software, a tech company co-founded in 1999 by Brad Schell and Joe Esch. With an original release date in August 2000, Schell and his …
