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Hi,

I just picked up a used copy of the book Sketchup for Dummies. I have a couple of these "xyz" for Dummies books some have been good, some OK, and well some have been dumb.

I hope to get started in the book this evening. This is not a new books so I'm not even sure what version(s) it covers. I also see they have some video segments on the web... hope these are still there.

I'll try to keep those interested inform as to how I see this helping me or if I get my money's worth... As a reference I saw this book on Amazon for like $17 and if you had an order over $25 free shipping. I haven't gone back to make sure it is the same book but how many of these could be out there???

If anyone already has the book, what did you think of it?

Ed

Ed,
There are a ton of videos on the internet about SketchUp. For instance go to Youtube.com and do a search on SketchUp tutorial and you will get a list of them as long as your arm.

George is right about all the videos, I've looked at some of them but far from all of them.

As it turns out I decide to just dig in now rather then wait until tonight. I wanted to see if the videos related to the book were there and I was happy to see them.

They are at: http://www.youtube.com/user/aidanchopra

The ones referenced in the book plus a lot more, a total of 62 it says!

If you don't here from me in a few days it could be I was overwelmed with all this information... send help.

Ed

reible wrote:George is right about all the videos, I've looked at some of them but far from all of them.

As it turns out I decide to just dig in now rather then wait until tonight. I wanted to see if the videos related to the book were there and I was happy to see them.

They are at: http://www.youtube.com/user/aidanchopra

The ones referenced in the book plus a lot more, a total of 62 it says!

If you don't here from me in a few days it could be I was overwelmed with all this information... send help.

Ed

I went to the site you listed last nite and watched about an hour's worth of the videos. I learned more in that time than I have with all the playing around I've done in the past two months. Thanks.

I read up to CH 4 yesterday. Today I will be starting in to what seems to be the more interesting reading.

This is a couple of things I found out about the book. It covers up to version 6 so if somethings changed in version 7 they will be be covered in the book. Second it looks like I will be doing some buildings and the like rather then woodworking but I think it will still cover things that will be helpful. Thus far I have only bookmarked three items for later reference... ie things I didn't know before.

I'm also glad I left version 6 on my system to use with this book. So far we built a dog house but I knew how to do that already. Today reading will be covering building buildings... might be nice if I ever have the money to build a real shop.

Ed

Today I did chapter 5, and I'm glad I have the book and access to the videos. One subject covered was layers, a little different then I'm use to but I think it answered a question of how to stick some graph paper up behind the working layer to use as a guide. Going to try that tonight. Also figured out how the "replace part" of the package works, that had me stumped for a while.

Still a lot more to learn, going to work through CH 6 tomorrow night I hope. Going to try a lathe project tonight, hence the graph paper reference before. I have a project I want to do next spring so depending on how much I learn about the use of sketchup and can get the design into 3D the better it will likely turn out.

Maybe in a month or two we can see how many users would be interested in doing a shopsmith model. Even if it is not to detailed it would be useful in shop planning... maybe do the attachments as well??? Hey maybe someone has already done this???

Ed

reible wrote:Today I did chapter 5, and I'm glad I have the book and access to the videos. One subject covered was layers, a little different then I'm use to but I think it answered a question of how to stick some graph paper up behind the working layer to use as a guide. Going to try that tonight. Also figured out how the "replace part" of the package works, that had me stumped for a while.

Still a lot more to learn, going to work through CH 6 tomorrow night I hope. Going to try a lathe project tonight, hence the graph paper reference before. I have a project I want to do next spring so depending on how much I learn about the use of sketchup and can get the design into 3D the better it will likely turn out.

Maybe in a month or two we can see how many users would be interested in doing a shopsmith model. Even if it is not to detailed it would be useful in shop planning... maybe do the attachments as well??? Hey maybe someone has already done this???

Ed

Ed,I've looked in the 3D Warehouse and there's not a decent Mk5 model there now...

Hi Ed, Tom,

I did this Mark V crude model last year. Probably I spent too much time for too poor of results. In fact some of it was done via the 3D "photo match" technique rather than by exact measurements.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ ... revstart=0

Anyway, I would love to see somebody do it right. As it is, it did show up in one woodworking magazine article to date:
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=2314

Hey it's a start. I haven't gotten to the point I want to be before making some real stuff but if we can get several of us working on different parts we should be able to get a general model together then refine as time permits.

I got my first SPLAT! today (with version 7).

Ed

nuhobby wrote:Hi Ed, Tom,

I did this Mark V crude model last year. Probably I spent too much time for too poor of results. In fact some of it was done via the 3D "photo match" technique rather than by exact measurements.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=51ec4d48bbd17603c5a0cefda5b780fb&prevstart=0

Anyway, I would love to see somebody do it right. As it is, it did show up in one woodworking magazine article to date:
https://forum.shopsmith.com/viewtopic.php?t=2314

Okay, Ed, What is a SPLAT?