Swingman wrote:
On 12/7/2010 9:51 PM, Bill wrote:
Leon wrote:
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On 12/7/2010 1:55 PM, blueman wrote:

As a newbie to Sketch-up, I thought it might be helpful to start a
thread where we could all collect and discuss our favorite Sketch-up
plug-ins and tutorials.

Tim Killen's pdf book is an excellent intro for woodworkers new to
Sketchup:

http://www.tauntonstore.com/sketchup...ok-077846.html



You and I have been using Sketchup for a while now but reading this
book I
finally learned how to lock a line direction with the arrow keys. Stupid
simple but I couldn't figger it out. ;~)


That's exactly the kind of "tidbit" I was referring to in my previous
post. You could watch a video 5x and not get it.

Actually, I learned that one, and many others, a few years back from:

http://www.go-2-school.com/media/browse/sketchup_show

They have the best tutorial videos of all and their free series on
iTunes is where I picked most of what I learned early on about using
Sketchup in residential construction projects, and for presentation and
construction documents/drawings ... out of dire necessity.

I've never bought their videos but I imagine that someone who wanted to
quickly become proficient would find them hard to beat.


Wow, Looks like a nice collection. I'm saving the link. Thanks! -Bill