A really simple example of how sketchup can be used to help design some promotional material.

I've basically started with a gothic arch and an offset and worked from there. I've kept the two original outlines as the standard and used them to make everything else fit.
I created the designs in sketchup and used Eneroth's .svg exporter to get the linework into Lightburn for the laser.
These are some of he designs.

I was able to use them for both cutting the wood and working with the glass paint.

Then I designed a box to fit them in, it helped being able to use 3d models to work out how things fit together.
You can see the complete box to hold 20 'cards' and its corresponding flat layout ready for the laser and my current thinking on a box for 10 with a hinged and sloped lid.

I didn't find the need to model all the cutouts and engraving in sketchup, although I could have, since I had exported them all ready for the laser.
So it became a simple case of put the parts together in Lightburn and set fire to everything.
The current result being a finished set of 20 with traveling box.

For those wondering, I have created these as a way to promote one of my skills and to help a troubled industry. Stained Glass is under threat from different angles, just some of which are declining interest in Old Stuff, Nanny state terror of working with lead, general indifference and weathering of old buildings. I'm hoping to use these to give some of those with an interest in restoring their old windows somewhere to turn. To that end I plan to take some road trips around regional Australia and talk to people and leave these as a point of contact.
They aren't your average pamphlet stuffed in your letterbox.

Just a bit of showing off really.
This is the charcoal full size cartoon for a full door panel.

Set up on my bench read to start the leading process, and yes my workshop is on a boat.

A detail of the beginning.

The bottom section off the bench and up to the light.

Top in progress.

Nearly there.

Up to the light, late afternoon sun.

And when finally installed.

Now I want to see pictures of the boat as well

I don't have any recent ones, this was it when I bought it 7 years ago. It has changed a lot since then. The workshop is basically from the door on the side to the back. Kitchen between workshop and wheelhouse. Main 'Office' is in the wheelhouse because I can close it off and heat and cool it, I have four monitors in there. The workshop has 3 monitors and a design desk setup.
Upstairs, openable sundeck, which has my treadmill and 3rd workstation, only two monitors up there, I can watch TV and use PC while on the treadmill. All three sets of monitors run off the same PC via hubs so I on the same files wherever I am.
Then double bedroom and full bathroom and finally open back deck.

It is a converted Whitsundays inter island ferry, capable of 40kn+ in its heyday. Still manages mid 30s. Two 400 horse inboard turbo diesels below the waterline.

She's old but so am I and she is home.

I wake up to this.

Nod off to this.

And regularly pull these in with a simple hand line for dinner.

It's a tough life but somebody's got to do it.

@L-i-am
Without plugins.
The only things off screen are, Weld Edges and Soften edges.
Note I use a polygon to get the hard edges, which when welded allow the taper.

Now that Clothworks has been updated for 2024 here is a very simple example.

Just thought I would throw a few recent jobs into this old thread for the few people that might be interested.

Hover over an edge to get the center inference to appear and grab it there, then do the same to place it.

Slap on a huge tariff and everything will come good.

A little more knotting.

@sarahjaneboothdesign
The rails need to be a 'curve' a single edge won't work.
You can divide the edge and then weld it and it will work.

@Rich-O-Brien said in A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.:

How do you price a job? Per m/sq

Each commission is different, you get to know the client and what sort of thing they are after, you check the site and the lighting and the general feel of the place, then most importantly see what sort of car they drive and use the BMW/MERC/AUDI algorithm to pick a figure out of the air.

Are you passing on the skill to an apprentice?

I've had 11 over the years and many students.

The caustics in the 3rd to last image is glorious.

Yeah I love that shot too. The reason it is often called Painting with Light.

Is the sketch yours too or is it someone elses concept?

In this case it is the work of another artist. I do a lot of my own but also freelance for many others. Quite a few artists don't have the skills to produce their own work or the time for that matter. I'm semi retired now, so I pick and choose what I want to work on, This was a nobrainer, too nice not to work on.

Cheers Rich.

I remember being stunned by someone doing a knot way back when I was learning, so I like playing with them from time to time.
I liked the idea of using subd for it to make it a bit more 'loose' rather than the perfectly straight ones done with perfect curves and lines.

Renders nicely too.

@Rich-O-Brien Slipped out did it.

@Mike-Amos
Todays job if you want.

I'm shocked! You're surely not suggesting that something on the internet could be inaccurate?!

@L-i-am said in In real life.:

Are you concerned about them being produced my modern computer tech

No, it's more about nanny state regulations and how times have changed.
Several glass producers, the raw glass sheets not the finished product, have closed their doors in the last few years due to prohibitive regulations that just make it impossible for the business model to succeed.

Regulations regarding the use of lead, the other main part of our industry, are driving many companies under and they are even on the verge of banning the use of lead all together.

Along with all that the digital age has turned people away from 'crafts' and made everyone go more Ikea in their design ideas. Brown furniture as antiques are often referred to have lost all value, once a family heirloom now a burden to be disposed of when 'downsizing your parents'.

On top of that there are very few of us professionals left and even fewer being trained. Back when I was apprenticed there were stained glass studios all over the place, most with apprentices or trainees and just about every evening college had classes for hobbyists. I was teaching when I was a second year apprentice. Now I can count the studios in Sydney on one hand and students are very rare.

I could continue on the subject ad nauseam with stories of declining markets due to fewer churches being built... insufficient funds within the established churches to add new windows or maintain what they have... lack of interest in domestic work and so on and so forth.

There is also the missheld belief that, 'oh special people made them and they can't be done that way these days, it's a lost art'. Bollocks.

Here end'th the ramble.

@Rich-O-Brien Feel free to try but in my experience they will still be incorrect no matter what you do.

@Alohaa My guess is you have opened the wrong model file.
Pretty clear here that Dave's model contains correct geometry.

It would also be a pretty straightforward job just using arrays, and perhaps solid Trim.