For complex furniture pieces many woodworkers found they had to build mockups or prototypes to get their shop drawings right. Woodworking plans used the top, front, and side dimensioned views for shop drawings. Traditionally home architects, builders, woodworkers or furniture designers sketched out their ideas on paper in either perspective view or in the usual 2-D plan and elevation views. Let’s look at 3-D modeling first, shop drawings and cut lists second. SketchUp is ideally suited for woodworkers because the 3-D model produces the documentation set we know as shop drawings and cut lists. But SketchUp could not be better suited for woodworking if it had been the only target on their list and the developers were all woodworkers. Interestingly, the original developers of SketchUp likely did not have woodworking on their target market list. Lastly, while this topic has been discussed numerous times, I hope to do a better job explaining it in woodworker terms.įor those who have never heard of SketchUp, it is a 3-dimensional modeling and documentation tool used widely in the architectural engineering, construction, product design and marketing industries.Woodworkers have short memories when it comes to tools that don’t reside in a cabinet on the shop wall.There are still too many woodworkers out there who have never heard of SketchUp and we need to get the word out.So why list the benefits of SketchUp for woodworkers again? Here’s why: This topic has appeared once or twice on woodworking blogs.
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