Ok thanks, I'll just muck around with it for a bit longer and if I get stuck i'll touch base.

Geoff

@remus said:

just give us a shout if you want a hand with modelling anything. plenty of people here who are happy to help.

Thanks remus. Mate I just wouldn't know where to start drawing a sketch of the beds I want to design. I've been watching a couple of the tutorials and what I have watched hasn't really been any help to me as it is just rectangles and pitched roofs. I'm sure when I actually draw my first sketch it will kick on from there.

Thanks
Geoff.

Thanks guys. I'm hopeless and I'm finding it hard to draw certain things that would be helpful in drawing the beds up.

G'day all my name is Geoff.

I've just starting to use this sketch up program for a couple of days after seeing it on a woodworking forum that I'm a member of. I enjoy making furniture and mucking around with wood and would really like to get the knack of how to use this great program. I'm wanting to build my kids a couple of loft beds and would really love to be able to draw them to scale in sketch up 1: so that I can see what the beds will pretty much look like when it's done (as I have a couple of different ideas) 2: so if I make another down the track I'll still have the plans and dimensions stored on my hard drive.

Is there a video tutorial of someone making something like that on this forum? Sorry to be a pain in the bum but I'm not finding sketch up all that easy to operate.

Thanks for your help
Geoff