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      rfritz
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      I agree about seeing a list of drawings that have been submitted but not posted yet. It would certainly save spending several hours of duplicated drawing. Fella77 - I did my rendering in Kerkythea.

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        Sawduster
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        I finished this up yesterday morning and submitted it. It's from the Aug 07 issue. I plan on building one of these and had already started on the drawing when I found out about the deal with PWW.

        http://www.sawdustersplace.com/Sketchup files/GrandfatherClock.jpg

        Here's a link to the skippy:
        http://www.sawdustersplace.com/Sketchup%20files/GrandfatherClock.skp

        May all your dimensions be the sum of their total.

        Jerry

        http://www.sawdustersplace.com

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          BobLang
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          Hi Everybody,

          First of all thanks to all of you for your interest and participation, and my apologies for any delays in responding or sending CDs. As senior editor for Popular Woodworking and Woodworking magazines I have about seven or eight responsibilities that each take about a third of my time. The past couple of weeks I've had to put down a couple of the balls I juggle to meet print deadlines. That is about to be behind me, so I hope to get caught up on the SketchUp collection later this week.

          I have received more entries than I anticipated, but I am working through them in the order that I've received them. If you haven't heard from me yet, feel free to e-mail me a reminder. If you have heard from me, and you've let me know what CD you want, please be patient. CDs will be in the mail by the end of this week. I don't have the time to generate a data base of what models have been completed, or to keep it up to date. I can't think of a better way to check than to look at the collection. I'd rather not add duplicate models to the collection, but I'm trying to be flexible about awarding CDs for duplicate submissions. The whole idea is to have some fun, share skills and models, and build a collection unlike any other. Sending out some extra CDs is not a big deal, but please be fair with me and try not to duplicate models that are already in the collection.

          We are working on adding a page on popularwoodworking.com dedicated to SketchUp and its use in woodworking. In the meantime, I'll make myself available here, and can be contacted by e-mail at:

          robert.lang@fwmedia.com

          thanks again for your contributions,

          Bob Lang

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            Hazza
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            @boblang said:

            Hi Everybody,

            I have about seven or eight responsibilities that each take about a third of my time.

            I have received more entries than I anticipated, but I am working through them in the order that I've received them.

            We are working on adding a page on popularwoodworking.com dedicated to SketchUp and its use in woodworking.

            Hi Bob, good to see you on the SketchuCation forum. It's the best forum related to SU on the entire interweb.

            he he.... I think your maths is off... then again when I ran my own business I had the same sort of thing, sleep was for wimps, I still can't get more than 5-6 hours sleep a night.

            I suspected as much, you either did expect that many people used SU or didn't expect your offer that good, either way you have learnt 😄

            It would be good to see published articles about using SU for woodworking. Get ideas from readers about things such as using dynamic components to make REALLY easy to alter the size of projects like beds.

            See all of my SketchUp models here.

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              BobLang
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              I wish my math was off. I'm hoping to do an article or two in the coming year, and when the page on the popwood website is up, it will be another place to share ideas and techniques. What gets printed in the magazine depends on lot on how many people request it, so let me know and I'll do what I can.

              I'm also preparing to teach a class, and I'm curious as to what people struggled with as they first began using SketchUp.

              Bob

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                daveball
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                @boblang said:

                I'm also preparing to teach a class, and I'm curious as to what people struggled with as they first began using SketchUp.

                I am just starting to use 3D. I did some of 2D drafting a long time ago. I paid a decent chunk of money for DesignCAD 3D Max a year ago (never did much with it) and then discovered SU. Wish I had my money back....

                Anyway, the hardest thing for me so far is to figure out where to start the drawing, and which way to build it. Do it part by part and put them together, or some other way? If I was doing it on paper, I would figure out what I wanted to do, rough sketch it out, draw the parts, create the cutlist. The Google Tutorials were not much help for me.

                I have a project from another mag. (sorry Bob) that I am working on, but it needs changed. I refuse to build a replica of a Stickley dining room chair with dowels, 😲 so I have to recreate all the parts with proper mortises and tenons. I started building parts, but then couldn't figure out how to put them together. Some searching lead me here.

                I am working through the tutorial by Chiefwoodworker at http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=183&t=8810 . Things are starting to come together in my head. He advocates doing training by building project as opposed to a series of exercises, which I agree with completely. The Hanging Shaker Cabinet might be a good one to use. Not too simple and not too complicated.

                BTW - I love PW. I have been conversing with Chris on some hand tool stuff, and he has been tremendously helpful. Keep up the good work.

                Dave

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                  Hazza
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                  @boblang said:

                  I'm also preparing to teach a class, and I'm curious as to what people struggled with as they first began using SketchUp.

                  How to stop the walls of my bird house from joining the floor and cutting bits off each other. Eventually I worked out I had to group them so they kept seperate. Later I worked out to use components so that a change in one was reflected in the other copies.

                  Now I make components of EVERYTHING, even if there is only piece in the model.

                  Really hammer home the "Use components" message..... actually this is starting to drift off topic... maybe start a seperate thread specific to woodworking models. Keep it in this forum, general starter tips is another thread that I started in the Newbie section. You could do a whole article from that thread alone 😄

                  See all of my SketchUp models here.

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                    Dave R
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                    That seems like a reasonable thing on Mr. Lang's part. It might have made some sense to check out how models he's already put out there were built before going to all that trouble.

                    Besides, why wouldn't you make components of the parts in the model? Save yourself a bunch of time and work.

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                      PKast
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                      Tale Gunner sorry to hear of your problems,

                      Here are the guidelines for submittal from the Popular Woodworking website:
                      "... Here are a few guidelines for modeling:

                      •Make each part into a component and give the component the name it had in print
                      •Show the relevant joinery
                      •Make the model as clean and accurate as you can
                      •Don't bother getting fancy with the rendering, we'd rather keep the file size small..."

                      Best,

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                        todd burch
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                        Y'all be sure to get the Nov. 1999 issue #111. That's the issue your's truly debuted - the "Out of the Woodwork" column - very back page.

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                          Hazza
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                          @unknownuser said:

                          I just got a reply for Mr. Lang. If you are not drawing the units as components you will not get recognition for the drawings.

                          owwww...... that must sting, the requirements for the models are there on the blog entry though.

                          See all of my SketchUp models here.

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