SketchUp for Cabinetmakers: From Concept to Construction (SketchUp 3D Basecamp 2022)

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Жыл бұрын

My first session at SketchUp 3D Basecamp Vancouver 2022, on SketchUp for professional cabinetmakers. Looking at how to narrow the gap from concept model to production documentation, including the use of dynamic / parametric cabinets which can help you automate the output of labelled parts lists to Cutlist Plus or other cutlisting software via a .csv file.
The second presentation covering CNC is here: • SketchUp to CNC with t...
You can trial the CabinetSense extension for SketchUp via this link:
cabinetsense-prod.appspot.com...
You can also download a free trial of Cutlist Plus here: cutlistplus.com/download
(Windows only I’m afraid - I run it all on Parallels on a Mac)
Sessions were not officially recorded this year, but with the permission of the organisers I have made my own screen recording of the slides and SketchUp modelling used at the event.
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Time Stamped Chapter links:
2:19 - How we started systemising our cabinet designs
3D Assembly Square Link: www.etsy.com/uk/listing/12282...
4:10 - Introducing the cabinet design we’ll be looking at in Sketchup
4:33 - Presentation agenda
5:54 - Why Sketchup
6:44 - 3 key strengths
9:01 - Key strength of communication
10:20 - From concept to construction: narrowing the gap
11:18 - How my Sketchup modelling template is set up: starting with scenes
11:50 - Using scenes without camera location settings
12:58 - Scribe allowance applied to edges indicated by black
13:33 - Using the 3D model itself as a communication tool: workshop staff can check any detail without me having to print a drawing or spell it out to them
14:10 - Door and drawers have animations capability included in Cabinetsense
14:22 - Applying profiles to doors, or outputting them to cutting lists as 5 piece
15:13 - Applying materials to parts
17:50 - Exporting parts from CabinetSense and viewing them in Cutlist Plus
21:56 - The drawing process in SketchUp
24:00 - ProfileBuilder 3 for mouldings
Video about my mouldings library: • Fast Mouldings Library...
25:08 - Dropping wall sockets onto walls
25:55 - Guidelines on walls
26:28 - Dropping in the cabinets and other dynamic components
27:30 - Scaling without distortion of internal parts
30:05 - How shelves and dividers work
31:44 - More sophisticated pre-drawn cabinets
33:50 - Exporting only selected cabinets
35:38 - Different workflows for different scales of woodworking business

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@creeksidecustomworkshop8661 9 ай бұрын

I’m so glad I stumbled across this video. I’ve been using a similar process but a much less robust version for my cabinet shop

@Alastair_Freebird 8 ай бұрын

Were you using SketchUp and CabinetSense already? Thanks for commenting

@samrix5793 Жыл бұрын

Probably the earliest I've seen you release a video but still totally worth watching it!!!

@Alastair_Freebird Жыл бұрын

It was late in the day in Vancouver! Hey, I’ve been listening to the audiobook you recommended - very profound

@samrix5793 Жыл бұрын

@@Alastair_Freebird that's great! yes certainly the first half can help bring things back into focus and help solidify purpose

@kelseysmithfurniture Жыл бұрын

@@samrix5793 @Alastair_Freebird - you have to tell us the book's name now!

@brianneedham1699 Жыл бұрын

Very informative mate🤝 some of those extensions I am definitely going to look into. I would like to give the dynamic components a try though. Great video

@Alastair_Freebird Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Brian! Did you watch this while working in your shop?

@brianneedham1699 Жыл бұрын

@@Alastair_Freebird actually on lunch in the 🏠 😁

@adriandotsmall 2 ай бұрын

👍

@vdis Жыл бұрын

I started using Fusion 360 about half a year ago, intermittently, though. It has a few usability issues that make me look for alternatives. Have you've given Fusion a spin and could point at the strengths and weaknesses of both Fusion and SketchUp when compared to each other?

@Alastair_Freebird Жыл бұрын

I am extremely impressed by what I have seen of Fusion. I mean the way you start with a 2D drawing that determines parameters; and the timeline of changes along the bottom of the screen that can be re edited at any point… it blew my mind it was so clever. And a lot of woodworkers were talking about it like the best option. So I booked an hour or so with one of Fusion’s own trainers. I showed him what I’m doing with cabinets in Sketchup and said ‘tell me honestly, should I be switching over to Fusion?’. His answer was no, for what I’m doing , Sketchup probably does it better. I wish I could remember more of the detail because we did explore it a bit, but I think he suggested fusion was better for working on one piece/cabinet at a time, but with a library of cabinets, and getting them to snap and align to each other and that sort of thing - perhaps also the way dividers can auto resize to fill a shelf gap - he thought SketchUp did it better

@user-dk6xm1nj8y Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video! I’m wondering how you are able to scale the cabinet without changing the thickness of the material/board. I’ve tried to figure out how to make it work but it never seems to work. For example: I have made a cupboard of 16mm board and it’s 700mm wide and I want to scale it to 1000mm but whenever I scale it to that, one of the boards turns into 22mm thickness instead of 16mm. Is there easy way around this?

@Alastair_Freebird Жыл бұрын

Hi, you need to learn dynamic components. Or, get the cabinetsense extension which has the formulas built into it's library components

@jonjames4522 Жыл бұрын

Do you ever worry about SketchUp going away? I love it myself and use it at work but I worry when I only see 6-7 people watching their weekly live streams. All the best, Jon

@Alastair_Freebird Жыл бұрын

Oh no I don’t worry about that at all since Trimble took it over from Google, and after seeing 3DBasecamp. They are investing heavily in it, coming up with new ideas all the time, making it more connected to other Trimble software and services. I think if anything it’s going to grow in popularity and market share

@rufaromhonda164 Жыл бұрын

Sketchup up is very intuitive and fairly easy to learn. People might not tune into thoer very informative live streams etc but the number of users they have is growing. Just go through the 3d warehouse. Even various tv shows are incorporating the software.