If you've enjoyed part 1 you can find the full series of SketchUp tutorials on the Member Zone at: members.gosforthhandyman.com/sketchup-tutorial-beginners/
Yes please, for more sketch up tutorials This one was well explained 👍🏻 really enjoyed it. Ultimately I’d like to be able to, as you mentioned layout a room
YESSSS! This is the first video on sketch up that I've fully understood! Thanks for taking the time to do this, I would really appreciate it if you'd do another video on this!!!
Thank you so much. Yes I would love to see part 2. Actually I want to design my desk and this SketchUp is really difficult for me. But you made it so simple.
Great stuff! I'm having to put the rest on my member zone since these aren't 'algorithm friendly' and part 2 nearly killed my channel 👍😀 members.gosforthhandyman.com/
This one is going to be very handy for me because i started using sketchup for my own projects. I'm going to save this video and watch it tonight when my noisy kids are in bed hahaha
Please make a second video. This was brilliant. Can you show how to make a box or rectangle if you already have the dimensions. If you want to show a board 13mm x 1220 x 600 for example.
Brilliant video, I've been using Sketchup for ages but didn't know the corner thing to align, or indeed to make things into components! Sounds silly I know but I've been going along building entire rooms and layouts and have been doing each cabinet individually!!! I'd like to know the best way to rotate things.
Andy, this is great, I've tried learning Sketchup before and not had much luck, this is the best tutorial I've seen so far, let's have more. I've got loads of projects that I've wanted to commit to paper but Sketchup would be far handier and learning it from a joinery point of view will be quicker I'm sure. I will be saving this and any more you can make, Cheers.
Did the trial version of Sketchup 15 and gave up in frustration as I could not find a simple tutorial on RU-vid. Now downloaded V8 so I can follow you. Please more like this Andy. Dave a patron from Morpeth
Love this, have struggled using the SU programme and given up numerous times, gone back to it many times and moved forward (slightly) but your update has given me the info I needed from the beginning. Please carry on with this series, as you have said I have also trawled the interweb for a simple 101 and struck out. Many thanks for this valuable knowledge - I’m indebted
Yes to a part two, and yes to several more parts please. I've been faffing around with SketchUp for ages and getting nowhere, so now's the time to crack it.
As an autocad user I find anything that shows how to use a different package very useful and you are very good at explaining - so more please. You can never learn it all.
Blimey, Andy, why couldn't you have done this vid 3 years ago when I was starting out designing my workshop!! It took me ages to get my head round SU, and you have a nice, relaxed teaching style! Could have done with you then. PS. I eventually bought a 3D mouse and that means you can whiz round; navigate with the left hand and select and do with the right. If anyone is going to use SU long term, I'd heartily recommend one.
Good video Andrew. Might I also add that one can use the middle button on the mouse to orbit in the middle of a command or shift and middle button to pan. This becomes very handy and eliminates the need for pressing O and P.
This was a really great tutorial! And it will be nice to follow the rest of the videos on Patreon. I was just wondering, though. Way back in some Measuing Up episode you rated Fusion 360 over SketchUp if you were to start out fresh. Have you changed your mind? If so, what made you prefer SketchUp? I have fooled around a bit in both programs and find SketchUp more intutive, but I really don't have the experience to make any judgement. Anyways, great vid. Cheers.
Here is a follow up comment. Again thanks Andy (even if I did spend an unplanned hour this afternoon following along with your video!). To help others - specifically those on a mac: Andy's patreon links to version 8 work perfectly and by playing around I found that if you have a trackpad, a two finger swipe up and down is the zoom in and out... Yes please again to video 2 Andy (but only once I've caught up with my work following today's 'excursion' lol) Andrew P
Great video, Would be nice to see how you measure up on site for the design work then how you go about making the furniture to fit ( as no room is ever square with perfect identical measurements 🤣) Please make the second part, im waiting already for it 😂👍
I've paid money for tuition in the form of a book, that wasn't/isn't as easy to follow as your intuitive method of teaching. Please Please !! keep up with " THE SERIES " Many Thanks New Subscriber !!
Plz make a part 2/3/4/5/6 I was sketching up for a project with paper and pencil then my dog ate my rubber which I needed 2 minutes later I really need to start using sketch up
Great video, thanks! What I particularly like is that you get straight into making stuff and using shortcuts. The last time I looked at a Sketch-up tutorial I was so bored I stopped watching. You vid makes you feel like you can already start putting the tool to good use within just 1 video Edit: Please do more parts! Also, if there's enough interest, it'd be great to see some practical projects (e.g. building a deck, bin cover, mapping garden for landscaping etc.) - Thanks!
Part II ? Absolutely! I've had to train people on software and I've struggled with some really horrid explanations in youtube so I know how difficult it can be. This was clear and at a great pace. Focused. Great job. This vid alone may make me a patreon subscriber.
Wonderful explanation!!! I really like the way you are teaching... explaining every step AND I look forward to the next video and the ten after that!!! You're a good teacher!!!
Greetings Andy, I can use sketchup, but, I welcome everything you have to offer on the subject. Just because I have been using it it does not mean I know what you know & visa versa. We never stop learning from each other. You may well be the only person who has discovered something in the program that no one knows about. I for one will watch it all even if for a refresher. So hit us with what you have. Oh BTW, show em how to get rid of Nobby so he doesn't stand there like Billy no mates every time sketchup opens 😂. After a while he become a pain and all you wanna do is slap him 👋😁 Regards Alec 👍
Thank you Andy...and yes please! I’m about to start using SketchUp after using AutoCAD LT from the late 90s. I’m used to using the keyboard for most features, entering the length of a line or the angle it is. The Offset tool is used a lot by me. I’d love to know how to do these on SketchUp please.
Thanks Andy! Very helpful. I've been using SketchUp for a couple of years to help with home DIY but these short cuts will speed me up, especially using a mouse with a wheel. Using a laptop is very slow when using the touch pad!
Was looking for somethink like this, very helpfull indeed, looking forward to part 2 and maybe more. The spacebar does not work as you showed. Maybe an other version or the Mac does it differently. Like your video’s , including the flooding explanation, totally of topic. All the best.
Thanks! Been using SU for a while and struggled with various bits because I didn't know some of the fundamentals.. this has filled some knowledge gaps. Do continue please.
Great video! I have been using Sketchup for years, but I have picked up a bunch of great tips from your video, everyone can learn new stuff! Yes, more videos on Sketchup, please. Shame Trimble have stopped supporting the free Sketchup Client the web version is nowhere near as good and the full pack is waaaay out of my budget. Thanks again and I look forward to the next one.
Yes please Andy more tutorials 2,3,4.....10 can you cover wooden joints and how to copy an object and rotate please ie set of draw runners in a draw cabinet Thanks Andy
Brilliant. I don't know how many other things I've seen about Sketch-Up but this is the first that I fell has got me going a bit. Happy Noob ready for Part 2.
Excellent video, Andy. Truly enjoyed the approach you took providing shortcut keys, their importance and how to put them to use. I followed along by testing everything you did in Sketchup Online. Would welcome the chance to listen to more videos from you delivered in the same fun, friendly engaging manner. I'd like to see how you create a room and then add objects to the room. Thanks again and well done!
Found this very useful. I too have been looking around for basic beginner videos on how to learn Sketchup and haven't found anything useful till now so thank you. It encouraged me to sign up to your Patreon. Obviously I want to use it for similar things to you, furniture design, room design and moving furniture round! Also I'm about to start a small 2.5m x 2.5m single storey extension and would like to use it for that.
Absolutely, positively please keep making these videos! I’ve experimented with sketch up in the past and gave up in frustration. Your video was the first one that didn’t make me give up. Please keep going!
Hi Andy, great channel you have going (amongst the many), avid watcher, i am new to Sketchup, but have used AutoCad, just a tip i have found that might be useful to all, if you press the scroll wheel on your mouse and move your mouse (even within other commands) you can orbit your view
I appreciate this video probably won’t get massive views but it was just what I needed. I really want to use Sketchup for designing my woodworking projects but it’s quite intimidating to get started in it. A series of videos would be great or even just a video of you designing something with an voice over explaining what you are doing to achieve it in Sketchup. Cheers for this Andy!
Andy, great video. More please. Have you tried Lars Christensen. Although he uses the latest version so I don't know how relevant it is to V8 of SketchUp. He has some great startup tutorials as well.
I've played with it before but always made a mess of it. This has made everything clear and I look forward to many more videos. I'm especially interested in building furniture and workshop items.
Yes Please,More tutorials would be great. Many of the tutorials I have found are not for absolute beginners. This one ticked all the boxes for me, very informative.
Another comment for definitely more sketchup tutorials! That explained it perfectly to a complete beginner ie me! A possible lesson for next time, is how to centre the smaller square onto the cube when push/pulling it and making a hollow cube. If that makes sense? Say to make a hollow cube with 18mm thick walls. Thanks a lot for this, the basics make sense to me now!
Yes please Andy, I would like a whole series on SketchUp if you can, such a valuable addition to any woodworkers toolbox. You explained it all very well, thank you, will look forward to part 2
I'm a 3d Cad user (Alibre) but never got to grips with sketchup. I have watched a few videos and still not got to grips with it. This is the first video I have seen that I really understand the basics. One thing is cannot find a link to ver 5.
You should make more part 2 for sure. I am a nooby and i am using this to learn for myself and my children. This is helping them draw in 3d. Please please make another one this is great and my kids now want to build so much stuff :) I wonder if this software can make Decks, Sheds and even doors. I would love to rebuild my wall with a door but i want to make sure it would swing out or in.
Great newb tutorial. I learnt a lot. Please continue with them. I have joined you’re Patreon channel just for this. I would like to be able to draw my carpentry projects to find construction problems and make up cut lists.
Good stuff, thanks and yes, please sir, can I have some more? Keyboard shortcuts are way easier/quicker and the more I use them, the more easily I can recall them. The length of the video was a good too in that it wasn't too much to try and tackle in one session. Cheers, David.
I've tried SketchUp a couple of times and didn't get on with it so went back to paper. Might give it another try as you explains that really well, so please carry on .
Yes please Andy I have tried and failed miserably at creating plans in sketchup so keep going this is very,very helpful keep the good work up and thanks.
I thought that as i have bee using SketchUp for many years that I would not watch this video. However I decided to watch it anyway and I learnt a few things. Well done.
Great video.I have tried to design just a simple cabinet with draws and shelves, but gave up.Your video is just the best thing to get me started and to try again.l am looking forward to future updates please as soon as possible. Thanks
I'm not a beginner with sketchup, but this was well worth watching. There were a couple of shortcuts I didn't know and those alone will make it easier to use and save time. Plus, your clarity on the basics is a good refresher. As a hobbyist woodworker, I sometimes go for a long time between uses and forget some things. Highly recommended for noob. You're a great teacher!
i know a bit of basic stuff but some intermediate to advanced tutes would be great. I have NEVER used shorcut keys though so i will from now on as it makes it a lot easier. i have messed up a lot for projects so stopped using sketchup as it was too difficult and took a lot of time getting a drawing finished. Been using chief architect. but want to get back into sketch up.
Can't seem to get that old sketchup anymore, the new free version is very limited, run by trimble, to get anything much decent you've got to pay through the nose, so these tutorials which are great and very user friendly are useless without that version of sketchup.
What a fantastic tutorial - more please - have been wanting to work with shetchup but couldn't get the hang of it. Thank you for a great start and I look forward to many more lessons please.
please can you carry on with your sketchup tuition and hopefully it will grow exponentially with a life of its own. your way of explaining things is so calming that I feel I can understand it so much easier. I look forward to your next video. tony.
Great video for absolute beginners. I use the full version on a daily basis at work and never knew about the treble click selection! I look forward to the next instalment. Cheers N
i have been using Sketchup for many years, I am well beyond this level, but I wish I had access to this when I started using it.. it would have saved me a lot of time :) Very good starting point for those who have not used it .. it takes time to get your head around it, and these basics are a good place to start, so i heartily endorse it
