Rank Beginniner and Woodworker
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My name in Tom
. I joined today as it snows outside and I really want to learn this fantastic program.
I am a retired U.S. Coast Guard Avionics Technician from the Vietnam era and retired U.S. Postal Worker. I did travel the world in the mining industry. My wife, also retired paints and we both are wood carvers. I will post a .jpg of my last two carvings if anyone would like to see them. Mr Bumbletoes and The Shoveler. I am in the process of installing a Clear Vue Cyclone dust collector for my wood working machinery in my shop and setting up a painting studio for my wife in her area of our basement. SketchUp seems to be just the tool to lay down all the ideas and get the wife to sign off so she does not change her mind as the design, drawings, cut list purchase of materials and project gets started only to find she changed her mind. Oh well. It happens. Who knows. I would like to learn SketchUp for rough carpentry and cabinet design. Before I got my draft number I had a number of comissions. You are allways wworking yourself out of a job. The quality of your work gets you your next.
Glad I found you.
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Hi Tom,
Welcome to Sketchucation! I'll be interested to see your carvings.
I use SketchUp mostly for woodworking and I'm still learning to use it too. It is very powerful and extremely useful for that. I think you'll find the same. If you're interested you can see some of my doodles here and check out the Woodworking forum here on SCF.
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Here is my SHOVELER I finished and gave to my mom in a retirement home this Easter.
Maybe you can tell me how I can add other wood texturs in the list of Woods. I get how to use in my model seamless images but to add them to my own collection well..... It is clear as mud.
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http://support.google.com/sketchup/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=114318
the help site is always a help -
Thanks for your Service to Our Nation Tom, Both Military and Civil...
Dave is the man when it comes to wood working. He'll steer you right. Since he won't toot his own horn I'll do it for him.
You might check out his new book.
Although this is a little more on the refined side.
Also you might check out the textures in the Shop here on the site.
http://sketchucation.com/shop/texturesOnce you have some textures and you want to make a "collection" look on your material browser window on the far right of the window there is a small arrow directly to the right of the drop down menu, this will allow you to save a library or collection of materials to your materials folder.
Now since you're working in what looks to be a more rustic form of carving, if this is indeed a typical example of your work, I will suggest two plugins that will be of great help to you.
Thomthom's Vertex Tools which is available here in the shop or on his website.
http://www.thomthom.net/software/vertex_tools/and Artisan
http://artisan4sketchup.com/
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