Creating Woodworking Joints in SketchUp - The SketchUp Essentials #38 

Awesome! Learned so much new stuff in this one video. Now I know what intersect faces does, and that I can multiply copied geometry, and that I can double-click to perform an operation over and over...great stuff.

This was great because I didn't realize until watching this that there actually aren't that many woodworkers on RU-vid with a great grasp on the intricacies of this program. They show a way of doing something like this, but you really seemed to show the most intuitive and least finicky way, along with a lot of functionality they never seem to use either (my Sketchup video tutorials have been limited to woodworking and you're literally the first one I've seen mention the arrow keys to lock to axis, dividing lines, and intersecting geometry).

Really appreciate the videos concerning woodworking topics. Do more when you can please.

Great guide to woodworking joints. The intersect faces makes my work much easier. Thanks

Thank You! I like all your videos. All your step by step explanations are very clear and useful. Thank You!!

Thanks Justine! Your way to explain things makes me push for learning more!..

I'm new to your series and like the way you are teaching us... I would like more woodworking techniques as well as designing for the lathe. Thanks.

This is perfect for a new user like me. I am a woodworker and want to use SketchUp to help me design my projects. I think this is going to work perfectly for me...I have the Shop edition, but seeing some of the things you are able to do, it looks like I should upgrade to the Pro edition. Again thanks for the videos!

Im brand new to sketchup and using it for woodworking projects. Really appreciate your tutorials.

As a woodworker, I found this video to be very informative...Thanks so much.

Thank you so much for the teaching. Great work!

I watch this again after quite a while. This is greatly helpfull. Thank you!❤

Man have you made my day. I have watched a ton of these videos but yours have been the BEST OF ALL. I especially like this one for the dovetailing because I do a lot of dovetailing. THANKX

Thanks! This will definitely help me with designing furniture!

Just love these woodworking techniques, great relaxed teaching style..

I am new to Sketchup and you give some of the best tutorials. Keep up the awesome work!

Since I only recently discovered your channel, I hadn't seen this before. These are much easier than the way I'd been doing them. Thanks.1

Enjoyed this video very much. You make it look very easy. I enjoy any Sketchup video that involve woodworking.

Thank you for good tutorials. I like the way toy explain things.

Brand new woodworker. I found this to be very Helpful. Thanks for taking the time to do it.

Thank you very much Justine ,,, really thank you for your recommend .

Love the woodwork!! excellent!

I have been watching a couple of your videos and your really good and make it look so easy. I hope I can get good like you someday. Appreciate your tutorials

Thank you. Great instruction.

I have been using SketchUp for many years and was very fluent as you. I am 79 years old and had a stroke two years ago. It left me in a wheel chair and a lot of my memory is gone. I used mostly SketchUp, Design Cad, and Auto Cad. When I came home I could not remember a thing in any of them. Today, I spent the whole day going over your tutorials and most of it came back to me. I just want to thank you for taking the time to do what you do.

Very helpful! Thanks so much!

Awesome, thanks. I have been using sketchup to create dovetails and I need to do lots of cleanup. This gave me some new idea's to speed the process up

Hi, I enjoyed your videos on SketchUp. I am 74 years old and suffered a stroke. At this stage I have retained most facilities and memory. I am trained as a design drafting officer, trade as fitter and turner, and a builder. Have decided to document my skills in the honour of my son who passed away last year at 51 years old. Thank you for providing this information for everyone to learn and create.

Awesome... lots of tips on little short cuts!

You are just great Man! I learned a lot from you. Big Thank you (Y)

I love all your sketchup skills video's!! Thanks

VERY helpful. Thanks!

excellent video!! Im a woodworker and I found this very helpful

Very interesting mind gimnastics . Thank you !

I'm new to Sketchup and this is really helpful, thank you

Great stuff, love it.

Excellent lesson - thx. New user here. I'm a fabricator both wood and metal. I think the popular term is "Maker." Took 2 semesters of autocad R13 in college a long time ago . . . I think we were using windows 98 . . yep, a long time ago. Really appreciate the way you run the lessons. Will definitely be watching more and supporting your channel.

Great video, thanks!!

I love it. Thanks

Great work. Yes, I’d love too see more woodworking videos. Great job.

great video, thanks very much

Great stuff!!!!! Thanks

This is an amazing informative video, thanks!

Amazing video that thought me alot. Than you so much for this

Lots of good Sketchup TIPS there, very watchable : )

Thanks Justin! Learned a lot!

Is there an easy way to use the protractor to get the mitered angle drawn and shown in SketchUp 2020 Pro vs. drawing the line as you've shown? Your tutorials are awesome. Keep 'em coming, please! Thanks for all you've done.

Very useful thank you

show de bola! greetings from Brazil!

Really nice.

Very helpful Thank you!

Hey mate, from someone that was okay at using Sketchup, I am loving your tutorials. Im learning a lot of little tricks and its helping heaps. So Thank you. I have a question, at 9:30, you create segments, how did you do that? i

Beautiful

Thanks. I learned a ton today.

Thanks a lot!

Good stuff...thank you!

19:56 don't erase them out! just push them in with the push/pull-tool. you push the first one in to the depth you need and hen just click on every next and it will repeat the previous depth automatically.

Love your videos very well done, I didn't know your weren't a wood worker so I just wanted to let you know what the correct woodworking tums are for the joint you called "the peg piece and the socket, it is called a mortis and tenon going. I also would like to know how you c divided one of your model into 3 equal lengths? I will be watching more if you tutorials. Thanks for your hard work Dan the tooljunkie woodworker.

Great video.

You have a new subscriber! Very useful content thank you

so helpful

thanks brilliant

good job man...thank's

Good woodworking video! In the tongue and groove scenario, what command did you use to divide one side into 3 segments? The more I watch, I realized I am doing things the hard way while yours seem like a breeze! --- Updated edit: Never mind I found the answer in another comment!

were two solid components i created with tenon on end. can send file if helps to see type of design i created with your great tutorials

Thanks for the video. Are you using the pro version of Sketchup or Sketchup Make?

awesome

Thank You very mutch

I have been really loving the videos which have been very helpful. Could mention which tool you are using before you use it. Sometimes you move too quickly before I can see which tool that you click on.

Great video

Definitely a Likey and more videos are expected.

Justin, for 3D printing purposes, using your method to 'fill in' surfaces that became rendered as hollow, would you happen to know whether the STL file also renders the piece 'filled in,' or does the STL represent the piece as still being hollow?

I am new to sketchup so forgive my ignorance, I would like to create an object (lets say a box) and then send it to a SVG file so that I can cut it on my Laser. Is that possible? Also, can I print a materials (cut) list so that I can build my objects?

Justin, on the tongue and groove you highlighted an edge and divided it. Is that dividing command in Make or is it in a plugin?

very helpful

thanks for excellent videos. Am designing a 3 level audio cabinet. When go to do intersect on one component tenon to another, the app says not solid component? what do i do?

The box joint can be drawn much simpler. Simply copy the top end line multiple times down the end of the board. Then simply push the top resulting square/rectangle or next section and then double click every other one. Done. You do not need to draw all of the geometry, simply copy the top end line multiple times and then push.

I really like your tutorials. They are clear and concise. At about 4:55 you create a new rectangle on the face of the object, extrude the rectangle, then move it away from the object. I can't get that to work. The new extruded part seems attached to the original object. How do you do that?

Thank you ! I like your clip video.

This is very helpful, thank you!

Great video. Thanks for doing it. One question for you (or anyone else), I can't seem to be able to model a dado on a miter joint. Can anyone help?

this series has been great. where can I find info on how to use that copy geometry and using the protractor and move with copy?

Love it. Still learning how to use SU. Not sure how you got the edge to show the number of segments. Been trying to do it but fail each time.

How would I make a miter joint with a gap between the boards. Such as the picture frame of a deck where you want to allow room for expansion/contraction?

Thank sir

How do you get and use the segment tool? I have SketchUp make and can’t find segment tool. Would like to segment a line, like divide it into sections (segments).

Dovetail section (~18:42). Can you explain how you selected and then deleted the dovetails from the second board. I wasn’t able to replicate that part. Thanks.

Hi, I'm new to Sketchup and find these tutorials really good BUT I've spent a morning trying to replicate your mortice & tenon, when I try to erase as you do at 7:00 I find the cross piece deletes as well, plus the rectangle will only push pull out not in, what are you doing that I can't see?

In my opinion Justin gives the best sketchup videos I have ever watched. He knows all the nuances of sketchup that the other instructors don't mention. The only criticism of him is that sometimes he assumes that the viewer is much more familiar with sketchup than they are. Sometimes he does things so fast that I have to google up how to do them in sketchup. He gave an example of dividing a line equally so fast that I had to go to another sketchup to see how he did it. He probably does this so the video doesn't get too long. Besides that he is brilliant.

great video, I was surprised that when you copy an entity for example the first box joint (the tongue and the groove) that when you copy it doesn't copy the groove and you have to redo it again.

not too shabby for a none woodworker THANKS

HI I just wonder， why not use solid tools for the dovetail joints? It seems that you can just subtract geometries using solid tools?

How do you write that text to delineate between the different examples? I'm trying to label and follow along.

Hey Thanks man. I'm assuming you could just make these pieces ONCE, and save them as TEMPLATES to use for whatever projects you want to make? Could you just use the scale tool, to change the wood piece sizes for different projects ? Seems like it'd save a LOT OF time to just build these once, copy and paste them and rescale according to what you want to build ? Hope I explained that right lol

13:30 How did drawing a single line "heal" all the holes?

how do you get that gaint tool bar i just started and only have the default toolbar

Great job for not being a carpenter. More woodworking videos please.

I just found interesting plugin for woodworking >> L’Air du Bois : Toolbox for Sketchup

6:18-6:22 how to do that with move tool? That two pieces lined up, but separated?

Why wouldn't you use the Trim tool for the second part of these joints?