youtube designing kitchen cabinets with sketchup

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#Youtube designing kitchen cabinets with sketchup pro#
#Youtube designing kitchen cabinets with sketchup software#

#Youtube designing kitchen cabinets with sketchup pro#

(b) For those using the PRO version of Sketchup 8 with all the new features (apparently targeted at woodworkers) but not included in the free version how are you finding it? Do the files transfer well and which of the numerous file formats do you find work best with Aspire? with an associated 3D (three decade) learning curve, at my speed

#Youtube designing kitchen cabinets with sketchup full#

I'm not expecting it to be a full blown 3D design program. (a) Is anyone using Aspire as a stand-alone program for designing fully custom furniture and free-standing cabinetry pieces and what are your experiences in this regard. GerryV wrote:Hello, a triple-barrelled question regarding the design of premium custom furniture pieces.

#Youtube designing kitchen cabinets with sketchup software#

some modeling software is another that I have been contemplating to use for 3d shapes and then import into Aspire for final work and cutting. Sketchup can easily do this for you.įabrice (search here and Shopbot forum) has done some really interesting work in Solidworks that he slls to be cut with Aspire, but that program has a really huge learning curve and is expensive. They tend to use sketches and sample boards to show clients, I believe they are correct that rendered 3d presentations take away from the wow factor of the final job, it better to show a great sketch showing form and function and leave the photographic look for the real work. I do a lot of work cutting curved parts for some very exclusive cabinet makers. I also like the Sketchy styles that Dave Richards explained in The best beginning tutorials have been the free one Joe Zeh has done at He is an excellent woodworker and a great teacher so they are worth the time to watch. I have used Sketchup Pro and free to show some clients what their entertainment centers will look like. I have Ryans Cabinet Parts Pro for boxes - it is simple and fast and you can export the parts you want to carve to Aspire as DXF and work there - smooth workflow. It works, BUT it is not parametric so you cannot scale parts and keep your dados the same for example without using the trick of entering Node editing mode and moving the joint without scaling it. I have used Aspire to do some complicated cabinets. Those are the steps and sequence you’d use to build the project, so that’s the way you should model it.Great question, and I don't think there is a simple answer. Finish by adding knobs, pulls, and other hardware. After that, position whatever drawers, doors, and adjustable shelves you want. Fill in the fixed shelves, the bottom, the back panel, and ledger strips. Copy the side and do a Flip Along command to mirror it (this orients the copy correctly, without creating redundant geometry).

Draw one side to size and add rabbets and dadoes for the bottom, back, fixed shelves, and toe-kick space. They’re the main structural element, holding the other parts in place. The best way to do that is to begin with the cabinet sides. Suppose, for example, that you’re designing kitchen cabinets. It’s the same in SketchUp, so work in SketchUp the way you would in the shop: define the steps and sequence you need before you begin modeling. In woodworking, there’s a sound, logical sequence of steps you need to take from start to finish.