Newbie from Scotland
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Hi, just found this forum via Finewoodworking magazine and glad I did, looks to be full of help and useful information
I started using Sketchup to do drawings of my furniture as my hand drawings were so poor. I bought sketchup for Dummies but soon got fed up as the book is aimed at architecture rather than furniture. I did persevere though and learned by trial and error how to do a basic job of drawing see below!
I am however very frustrated at the lack of how to do information for beginners, especially re furniture, such as myself and hope that joining and reading here will help?
As with other forums I belong to the search function is useless and throws up far too many replies.
The forum could be so much more useful if it had some more simple head topics like how to install plugins, as after several hours searching I've yet to find out how? I use Izarc for unziping all my files but dont know where to put these files or how to open and use them. This may seem obvious and easy to some of you(most) but some of us are rather old and still have trouble with setting the time on our mobile phones
Hope you can point me to to some relevant topics and have a nice day as your say on that side of the atlantic!
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Bloonose - Welcome to the forum.
Just a few quick tips, I'm sure you will get more from the group as the day goes on.
Follow the link below to see a collection of plugin gif's that give you a feel for their function.http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=16909
As for loading and making them work, quite simply load them into your plugins sub-folder in your sketchup folder and they automatically load (except for a few specialties that need a bit of extra work) You access them at the top tool bar in the plugins pull down menu. There are more in the tools pull down.
There is a special user group for wood workers. Go to your "user control panel" and pick "user Groups", towards the bottom of the list you will find the wood workers. Get together with them and talk wood.
I highly recommend looking through the many tutorials - top line of Sketchucation - look for the tutorial tab. You can find just about anything there. If you can't, send up a flare online and you should get an answer.
Nice start for your first post by the way. Keep the faith! You will soon be having fun
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Welcome, Steven!
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Thanks for the welcome
am I right in assuming that the plugins are for the pro versions not the free? My screen has none of the things shown in the screenshots you've supplied!I have had a go at one of the tutorials and already discovered a few interesting and useful things.
My biggest problem is making profile I put on the edge of a surface continue round a corner, but this is probably because I dont start doing it in the right sequence?
This picture below is the sort of thing I mean, how to make that profile on the top go round the corner or all the way round? cant seem to get the pics to be the right size for this forum either, the method I use works in all the others I belong to
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The plugins are for both free and pro. They don't come with Sketchup standard installation, but you must find them (here http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/RUBY_Library_Depot.htm or here [url]ww.smustard.com[/url], or here http://www.sketchucation.com/extensions-index/ ... and are several places more... ) The installation is simple: you put them in Plugins folder.
Have fun! And learn (on youtube you will find a interesting collection of sketchup tutorials http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SketchUpVideo#g/u)
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Sussed the problem I was having by using the follow me tool tutorial
but I dont seem to have any plugin link, when I click Window I can see Ruby Console, but that's all I can find. When I see other peoples versions it has a plugin link at the top?Thanks
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@bloonose said:
Sussed the problem I was having by using the follow me tool tutorial
but I dont seem to have any plugin link, when I click Window I can see Ruby Console, but that's all I can find. When I see other peoples versions it has a plugin link at the top?Thanks
Bloonose,
do you have a plugins sub-folder in your main google 7 folder? I can't think of a reason it would not show up on your top menu. Check out this screen shot of my file structure. Free and pro versions have equal use of plugins as NewOne mentioned, so I find this very curious. In the free version, you won't have layout and I think style builder is also a pro version item, but the rest should be there and functional.
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@bloonose said:
Sussed the problem I was having by using the follow me tool tutorial
but I dont seem to have any plugin link, when I click Window I can see Ruby Console, but that's all I can find. When I see other peoples versions it has a plugin link at the top?Thanks
Go to menu: windows/preferences/extensions/ and turn on ruby examples -- then you will get the plug-ins menu.
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@bloonose said:
how to install plugins
My tutorial, Chapter 11 for PC and Mac, all versions. Don't worry about the "no Sketch Talk yet" warning. Installing comes first.
Chapter 8 is about furniture, but it's pretty advanced. Chapter 3 introduces the Scale tool and using -1 scaling to draw left/right parts simultaneously. Open the Chapter 3 "Details" in the TOC and click "carriage doors."
At my site, choose to View the tutorial, and right-click "Open in new Tab" (if you don't want my smiling face wasting your screen real estate).
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@bloonose said:
Hi, just found this forum via Finewoodworking magazine and glad I did, looks to be full of help and useful information
I started using Sketchup to do drawings of my furniture as my hand drawings were so poor. I bought sketchup for Dummies but soon got fed up as the book is aimed at architecture rather than furniture. I did persevere though and learned by trial and error how to do a basic job of drawing see below!
I am however very frustrated at the lack of how to do information for beginners, especially re furniture, such as myself and hope that joining and reading here will help?
As with other forums I belong to the search function is useless and throws up far too many replies.
The forum could be so much more useful if it had some more simple head topics like how to install plugins, as after several hours searching I've yet to find out how? I use Izarc for unziping all my files but dont know where to put these files or how to open and use them. This may seem obvious and easy to some of you(most) but some of us are rather old and still have trouble with setting the time on our mobile phones
Hope you can point me to to some relevant topics and have a nice day as your say on that side of the atlantic!
This is also a good word working forum http://blogs.taunton.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?nav=main&webtag=fw-designforum&entry=3 . Check the archive down about 1/2 on the right side. BTY I am Scotch Irish
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Thanks again for the help and advice, will be taking a lot more tutorials and visting the sites recommended.
Did this last night and this is the sort of stuff I make for a living!
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Hi Steven and (a late) welcome from me, too.
Have you actually downloaded and installed any plugins?
In the meanwhile, I have added you to the woodworkers usergroup so you should be able to see and post in the woodworking forum down in the index page.
Finally - your image does not show up. Could you rather attach it to your post?
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