"blueman" wrote in message
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Sketch-up for woodworking has gotten quite a bit of press lately both
here and elsewhere. However, much of this info is scattered across
multiple sources and threads.

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.

PLUG-INS:
To start off, Cutlist 4.1.1 seems like a must-have though I have yet to
play with it. It is discussed here for example:
http://lumberjocks.com/daltxguy/blog/5143

I would be interested in other useful plug-ins including ones that:
1. Introduce added functionality, tools, shortcust helpful for
woodworkers and designers
2. Provide templates for commonly uses parts and shapes

A handy plug in that works for taking irregular shapes from the drawing to
the shop is "Slicer" It will take any object and slice it ant multiple
intervals for transfering sizes to wood.

"Dimension angle" does what you would expect.
"Drop" will move an object to a desired height, helps to get every thing on
the same plane.
"Get Dimensions" is handy if you manually transfer drawing components into
Cutlist Plus. It will tell you the h/w/l of a selected object or compinent.
"Purge All" is handy to get rid of unused materials etc in a drawing so that
it file will not be so big.

Cutlist 4.1* is a great tool that will also import directly into Cutlist
Plus. You have to pay for CutList plus but is extremly versitile and after
the parts are optimized you can further move parts around your board or
sheets or to other sheets or boards.