A link for some more unusual veneers, go though all the available pages at the left!

http://www.alpi.it/uk/ListaProdotti.asp?IDSC=16

All I've been able to manage is this, which uses a jpeg of some burr elm veneer which I used on a credenza I made. I did use a plugin by Chris Fuller via this site to fill in every area at one stroke wich is very handy but as you can see to loose the tile effect made the burr really big! but I'll keep looking and experimenting.

The finished items alway look better than the sketchup's IMHO
Thanks for taking the time to help

Does anyone know where to obtain some timber samples to "colour" my Furniture Sketchups. I have only been able to find one which is full of more unusual types. When I try copying pictures of actual wood trying to get the scale right is very difficult,I seem to always get lots of tiles.

Thanks

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!

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

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

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!