Just saying "Hello" as a new "noobie". I'd really like to learn to use SketchUp at a reasonable proficiency and use some of the hacks I've come across to convert SketchUp drawings to .dxf format for use at my company. I'm running Sketchup 8 with WINE on Ubuntu and am not what you'd consider computer savvy, so it's been a huge learning curve all around. I'm currently working on a design for a tomahawk I plan to have produced as an initial entrepreneurial endeavor; I also have some initial designs for some other products, but I find getting the results I want are cumbersome with my limited knowledge so far of SketchUp, so it's all about finding tutorials for me to learn from.
Thanks in advance for all the resources here!