Larry wrote:

I've posted this before but the best tutorial I've found is at
http://www.srww.com/blog. You'll need to hunt for it a bit but
it's called "Drawing a bedside table". It's an 8 part tutorial
that you can download in Word format or follow it online. It
covers a lot of the problems discussed here including making
components, using layers, dimensioning, etc.

Yes, a good one, here is a more direct link"

http://www.srww.com/google-sketchup.htm

This tutorial is what cleared things up for me. I had used
TurboCad and Autocad previously but was never proficient with
either. But having that background, at least to me, was as
much a hinderence as it was a help. If you have a CAD
background you must change your way of thinking or you'll
never get anywhere. The old install, try it out, uninstall
routine comes to mind.

No CAD or not much CAD background here, but I still started and stopped
about 3-4 times before I started to get a handle on it.

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