98 - Learn SketchUp in 20 Minutes - Complete Sketch Up Tutorial of a Coffee Table
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- SketchUp Tutorial 1 - Coffee Table
In this video my youngest daughter, Sai (who is actually the SketchUp expert), and I will show you how to master some of the basics of Google Sketchup. This is an awesome tool for creating designs and plans for your pieces. It is tailor made to the woodworker.
I will show you exactly how to download the best version for use, and it’s FREE!
And I’ll show you the drawing basics with my teaching method which is to jump right in with a project! It’s the fastest way to learn anything and the most fun.
I hope you enjoy it. If there is interest we will create a series of videos teaching Sketchup in great deal.
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Congrats to you and your daughter Sai for a very educational video. I really enjoyed your style of teaching....keep them coming please.
Finally! A person with a clear, intelligible voice that isn't saying UH after every 3 words! Thank you so much! Well done. I am subscribing to your channel. I will watch any of your videos. A breath of fresh air. Very easy to follow along. Thanks again. You very much appreciated.
Thank you for this video, and a special thank you to your daughter for taking the time to learn this and pass her knowledge on to us. I’m a beginner and you are quickly becoming my go to for all things woodworking. Thank you and your beautiful family for guiding me through this journey.
Can't wait to get working on my coffee table - this has given me great pointers!
That just made my day... What a great tutorial, the struggle has ended!!!! Please make more.
James and Sai, you have done what thousands of other Sketchup videos could not do, make it so easy and clear to start making a table in minutes! I've started Sketchup three times and I'm in technology. They say third times a charm, I say success comes from Kings :) Well done and thanks!
You’re a great teacher! I know you’re proud of your daughter. Thank you
Absolutely would love to see more videos on this program. Thank you for all your hard work!! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱
I've had sketchup for 6 months or so and I have to say the way you tapered the leg was so much better than anything I have done previously. This is the first video of yours I have watched so I am very interested in seeing more. Thank you so much for making you and your daughters knowledge available.
That was super useful! Sai is both skilled and patient. No doubt you're a understandably proud dad! More of this please! Also thanks for the awesome videos. I'm just getting started in woodworking and your stuff is inspirational!
I just learned how to make some tables the fast track way. Love it. I can't wait for the rest of the series.
You and Sai are a blessing to me. Thank you for all the tutorials you have provided. GREAT job.
Thank you Sai so much! This helped me get over my issues when attempting to teach myself Sketchup!
The best intro tutorial for SketchUp, I have ever seen. You are as skilled at teaching as at woodworking.
I have to agree.
Agreed !!
Great video, I would like to see more in this series too. Thank you James and Sai. Especially how you get from a plan to a cut list with pieces of wood or sheets of ply.
First of all, you have an incredible daughter! Secondly, I love your way of teaching. To the point and you don’t ramble. Thank You!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you, this was well done. You should definitely make more SketchUp videos.
I love the style of the tutorial, but there are a few missed (and pretty important) commands/keystrokes in the narration that can lead to massive frustration. for instance: creating the bevel in the top requires a modifier key (alt I think) in addition to just dragging; adding the mortise requires "opening" the component for editing by double-clicking it; something that isn't mentioned at all so that when people try to push the rectangle they drew into the component, it won't work. There are a few more but these were the two that really threw me.
That said, I learned a lot. Thank you for the tutorial.
the modifier key for the bevel is the UP key... seems like I tried forever to figure it out, then saw it on the instructor for modifier keys. Click the line with your move tool, then press the up key.
@@carguy_tmh i'm glad i wasn't the only one. for the life of me i fought that bevel for hour. thanks for the follow up
@@carguy_tmh Hi there, i am using a mac and i cant do this bevel ! please help
@@gnikolov look at the instructor for the move tool, it should list the modifier key for your mac
@@carguy_tmhThank you, I did it, not exactly the way they did it moving all corners at once, i have to make it one by one!
Of all the Sketchup tutorials I have seen, most of them recommend installing the older version. I have never found how to do this. Yours is the first to show how to get that older version. Thank you and please have Sai keep working on these tutorials.
Your simple navigation on where to find the free version saved me! Thank You!
Awesome tutorial. Please make more tutorials. Sai you are a genius!
Excellent tutorial James!! This has been very helpful to me. I enjoy all your videos and have learned a lot from them. I'd love to see more Sketch up tutorials, if you have time👍
I'd love to see more as well. I love the quick-paced, jump right in, teaching style.
Best tutorial out there!
I was hesitant about your teaching style, but as you said, the most effective way to learn this is by jumping in- I hope you make many more like this.
Need more of these types of sketchup tutorials. I tried and failed at the current version but finding the old version made me much more comfortable. More more more! Love your channel!
Several people have commented on having trouble with the bevel on the underside of the table, and was having the same issue. After lots of trial and error and a clue from @matt welch, this is what finally worked for me.
1. Deselect everything.
2. Select the four bottom outside borders of the tabletop.
3. Select the move tool (or press "M").
4. While holding the alt key, drag one of the corners up and release the mouse. I found that with how thin the tabletop was, I either had to be zoomed in really far or else just drag all the way up to the corner (making the bevel go all the way to the top). Release the mouse button, then type in ".5" and hit enter.
If someone can enlighted us on how to do this without having to select all four borders individually (or, conversely, how to to it without having to manually deselect the four borders of the offset rectangle), that would be great.
Aside from this one kind of huge issue, this is a great video. Thank you!
Thank you!
Thanks for adding this update. What type of keyboard are you using? Following these steps exactly I don't get the same result. I'm using the wireless apple keyboard and a logitech MX Master 3 mouse. I was able to create the bevels on the table using the tape measure in a similar fashion as tapering the legs with the exception of moving each bottom edge one at a time with the "scale" tool.
@@396fab Just a standard Logitech mouse and keyboard.
Update - I deleted everything, rebuilt the table from the beginning to the point of adding the top bevel, Followed the Vince Earl steps exactly EXCEPT on my Apple Keyboard I held the "Command" (⌘) instead of the "alt" and this worked. FWIW, I tried this once before but I must have had something else selected or goofed up. Thanks again Vince Earl, James and Sai for this.
wow I redid this a few times trying to figure out what I was doing wrong before I read into the comments. Thanks for adding this. I was very frustrated
I hope you follow through with the series of Sketch-upvideos! This one was a super introduction!
I learned sketch up years ago the old fashioned way of one tool at a time, y'all have taught me more in 20 minutes that I've learned over all the years. Thanks again!
As a newbie to Sketchup, it took me over an hour to do both versions of the coffee table. I have learned more in that hour than I did in days mucking around on my own. Thank You James.
Outstanding!! Thank you. Have been struggling with Sketch Up. Would love more tutorials!!
Me too....
@@woodgrain8989 too me too
This is great would love to have more of this series
Brian Nelson, Awesome thank you!
King's Fine Woodworking I would also like a sequel.
Absolutely
Yes. More please.
+1
I have to commend you on being such a good father. not only are you a very skilled woodworker but such a great father in having your kids work with you and now really coming into their own as very helpful additions to your work. I know what it is to serve an apprenticeship and after all the learning time there comes a time when you really feel useful and productive in your work in becoming apart of the workforce or company. BRAVO TO YOUR KIDS and to You Too.
This is the best, most practical SketchUp tutorial I've seen. And I've watched A LOT of them.
Your daughter should have her own channel teaching this
Very well done. next turn that into a measured drawing for cutting wood.
Yeah.
Thanks King family. I've tried using Sketchup in the past and never even knew their was a setting for working with wood. Keep them coming please !!!
I agree with continuing this series. I learned so much. Thank you.
I struggled to push the mortis rectangle into the leg. It would only pull. After some searching around, I discovered the following:
The leg is a component (remember making it a component after creating it?). You need to "edit" the component. What this means is that there are black lines forming a sort of frame around the piece. If you double click it, this frame will appear. Then, create your rectangle using the guidelines, shift it into place and you should be able to push it into the solid leg.
I won't even go into the struggles I had with the tabletop bevel. No explanation about _how_ to deselect everything but the four lines around the object. I tried shift, ctrl, ctrl + shift... and ended up starting with nothing selected, holding shift and going around to click each of the perimeter lines. It still took a long time to work out how to make the bevel work equally around the whole tabletop. -.-
Aside from these snags, it's a comprehensive tutorial and teaches some valuable shortcuts. Converting inches to usable measurements (mm) was a task in itself. :) I also figured out that O is the orbit tool, as my middle mouse button was not doing anything.
I had the same problem. He really needs to explain single/double/tripple click every... single... time. lol. Not his fault entirely, but I missed the edit box, indicating a double click as well.
How did you select the edge at 18:20?
What I did was to select them manually but I hope there's a faster way to select all edges.
Then I struggled with pulling the edges straight up and not to the side. Turns out that by holding the arrow key up you can drag along the vertical axis
@@RadoHudran I agree that this is not very well described in the video. It took me about an hour to figure out this vague subtlety with the program. The key lies with how the faces and edges are selected and then deselected to end up with only all of the edges going around the beveled top. Here's what I did, I made sure I was using the select tool and that the point of the tool was in the middle of one of the faces contained within the bevel and then double clicked. This then highlighted all the faces and edges within the bevel. Now, hold down the shift key and the pointer tool should now be displaying a minus sign next to the tip of the cursor. Now click once inside of the same highlighted area of the face (be careful not to click on the edge or it won't work). Then, what you end up with is just the highlighted edges going around the bevel. The narration of the video didn't mention anything about this and assumed the user would just, "figure it out." in actuality, what was supposed to be a "learn Sketchup in 20 minutes", is very misleading when you don't know all the subtleties of how to operate the program. Another thing is the orbiting to get better angels and views, this is very important and nothing is really said on this, it's just assumed the user will know. My opinion, this is a better tutorial to follow if you already know a thing or two about SketchUp. It's not a great video for somebody who is totally new to the program. In that case, it won't "teach" you how to use the program in 20 minutes.
Tried to use the software twice before with no real success. 20 min here and I'm up and running. Great approach to teaching the basics.
Your Daughter is a genius!! I had to watch this video many many times and pause, try, unpause, pause, try ..... Thanks for the info!
Thanks, James. I echo other people’s comments. Very clear and lucid step by step instructions- from software load to an easily understandable example. Really would love for you to create similar videos. A big thank you to your daughter.
I've been trying to learn how to use Sketch Up for quite a while now, and this was really helpful for learning how to understand the use and manipulation of the various tools, etc. My computer's operating system is not new enough to run this 2017 version of Sketch Up, so I've been using the even older version Sketch Up 8. It's plenty powerful (for me) and meets all my needs (if I could just learn how to use it!)...so was wondering if these same basic instructions might also apply to Sketch Up 8? Everyone claims it's 'easy' but I've become somewhat frustrated with the learning curve on my own, and by watching other people's videos. Explaining the 'how to use' and the 'manipulation' of the various tools really helps a lot, and most people don't do that in enough detail, or they go way too fast. Thank you for this video, and I hope to see more from you about learning Sketch Up!
Hi James, Love the video, does this older version allow you to add measurements and a cut list?
PJ
Outstanding!! Sure hope you can make more of these. Really appreciate this video. Thanks so much.
Respectfully
Jim
Thank you James, thank you Sai... You are all very kind persons. Really appreciate your contributions.
Any possibility of making a video of how you go from sketch up to final product? My question is how do you get all the dimensions, your cut list, and all of the angles you need to cut for the tapered top and legs?
Yes, we can do that. It's a good idea for a video!
@@KingsFineWoodworking Thank you so much! Looking forward to more videos!!
@@KingsFineWoodworking Hi buddy me and another guy are both stuck in the same place on your (very excellent) tutorial - when you select to do the bevel on the 2nd table top, how are you selecting all the way around like that? The other guys comment is from 2 days ago his name is Pyro17059 - we just cant work out what key combo or shortcut it is to select all the corners like that to bevel them at the same time like you did
EDIT - Actually reading comments there's 4 of us stuck on the same point !
Hi Neil, are you in our Facebook community group? Maybe we can make a little more detailed tutorial for you and post it there.
facebook.com/groups/kingsfinewoodworkingcommunity
@@KingsFineWoodworking Please more Sketchup and one on cut list creation would be the awesome next installment of a series.
On a separate note, as a father I really liked the recognition for Sai and how you collaborate as a team. Dad bonus level achieved!
Awesome tutorial on sketch up. I have been wanting to use sketch up, and haven't found a video that explains it as you do. However, I did have one issue I was unable to get past. Around the 18:02 minute mark where you do the underside of the table top, I could not get past that part. I was having issues with selecting the whole underside to make the adjustments. I would appreciate any help with this. Once again good job to you and Sai. Looking forward to future videos.
I had the same issue. Just hold down the ALT key while you drag it and that will create the bevel correctly.
@@dennisfettersleatherwork Appreciate the information. I will give it a go.
This is good the Alt Key to create the taper upwards
So excited!!! Thank you James and Sai!
Yes! Please make more of these. This was an excellent tutorial. Very effective and understandable!
When using "Move" to bevel the table top, I am not seeing a blue line to "go straight up." Is this a trick not explained here?
click control while selecting the corners
How to do the bevel feature at 18:00 in the video. This is glossed over, but I figured out precisely how it is being done.
#1 press "space bar" to enter the select mode, then double-click into the space at the bottom of the table between the outer edge and the newly-created offset edge (the inner edge). This will select (and highlight) the outer edge, the inner edge, and the flat area between. Our goal is to have only the outer edge selected.
#2 While holding "shift" button, double-click on the bottom of the table inside of the highlighted region already selected. Now you'll have all the bottom surface selected: the outer edge, the inner edge, and all of the bottom surface. While you're holding "shift" the mouse cursor will have a +- beside it. This is key because you are adding and subtracting from your selection.
#3 While still holding "shift" button, double-click on the bottom of the table at the same place you double-clicked in #2. Because this was already selected, this de-selects both the inner area and the inner loop. When you're done this you will have selected only the outer edge and that outer area.
#4 While still holding "shift" button, single-click on that outer area of the bottom surface. This de-selects that area. At the end of this you will have strictly the outer edge of the bottom of the table selected (and highlighted). If you make any mistake, let go of "shift" and click somewhere off the table to reset the selection group to nothing, and start over at #1 again.
#5 With strictly that bottom edge selected, press "m" for move. Now click whichever corner of the bottom of the table is handy. Now you have to press "cursor up". This locks the movement direction to strictly up & down (along the blue axis). Incidentally the other options are "cursor left" (locks movement along the green axis) or "cursor right" (locks movement along the red axis). As you move the mouse up & down it will say "On Blue Axis" to show you that the movement is locked to the vertical direction. Now type in 0.5 and press "enter" to cause the bevel to be 1/2" upwards.
And that's it!
This is great! I'd love a series on it. Thanks so much for putting this quick tutorial.
I have watched many Sketchup videos, and this is the best most clear I have seen. Thank you for starting with installing a great version in the first place. That type of "table setting" makes the entire video even better. Well done!
"deselct everything" try to do that for 5min
I think what he really meant by "Deselect everything" was to just deselect the offset line. He clearly still has the line around the bottom edge of the table selected. I got it to work by selecting all 4 edges, then moving the corner up.
@@davidorr6627 how can i deselect everything but keep the offset line selected. im having trouble doing what he's doing at mn 18:17.
Thank you so much for this. I would love to see more in this series.
Well, this is great...now I’m not afraid of downloading and learning it. Please give a HUGE thank you to your daughter 😃🙏
This is gold, and your daughter too! Thanks for sharing
Outstanding tutorial - taught me things I hadn't tried or knew about. Thank you!
I know there are other tutorials out there but I really appreciate it coming from someone I watch all the time and looking forward to more in the future. Thanks again!
This video is awesome. Thank you and your daughter for putting it together.
A simple yet effective presentation that has given me a great start to get my projects underway. Thanks for the work guys,👍.
Man, you know the lesson is good when you can follow it along easily just listening to the video without having to watch it (useful when you only have one screen) and I'm not even a native English speaker.
Keep up the good work man, it helps a lot. Thank you from Brazil.
This is something I've always wanted to learn. Thank you and more, please.
You are a very good teacher, I have watched lots of your videos and built a version of your extreme assembly table. I also am in the middle of making a version of your miter station. I think what I like the most about your style of teaching is the way you build the students confidence along the way. The hardest part is always starting and now it's not.
Thanks Matt
Yes, please more sketch up tutorials. Your style of teaching is great.
Thanks for your great videos and sharing your knowledge. Love seeing your family working with you, too!
Very much appreciated! I hope you’ll keep ‘em coming!
James I hope you and your daughter keep making more of these SketchUp videos they are very helpful and informative, I have struggled with trying to teach myself the program. It is probably the old dog new trick problem all over again. Thanks again keep up the good work.
Great tutorial! Please do more Sketchup videos. I must say, of all the woodworking channels your'e the best. You do an excellent job showing everything and explaining along the way. You're little photo bomber did a great job and very talented with Sketchup. Hats off to you James and your daughters. It's great to see a father teaching his children and spending quality time together. LOVE your channel!!!!!!!!
Huge help in understanding the functions in Sketchup. I fumble my way through but this will definitely help in my use. Thanks Sai and James!
Thank you. Love the clarity of your tutorials. Please release more SketchUp tutorials for beginners. Thanks again!
I always consider myself proficient with SketchUp but in a half hour video I learned two new things. Big thanks to Sia and please keep them coming.
I would love to see more of these, Awesome tutorial!
Excellent!! Looking forward to have more published!
4:15 totally appreciate it! Afterall people can pause this versus being in a live classroom
Wow I’ve been learning SketchUp on my own for about 3 months and I feel like this video really showed me a lot of the smaller features that would have taken me forever to discover on my own. Thanks so much!
Thanks James. I have been struggling with this. Awesome way to teach! I agree.
Fantastic, I hope you keep this series going. My thanks to your daughter, she has helped me a lot.
Absolutely a great video. I've been using SketchUp for years and you taught me at least 3 new things.
One thing viewers might have problem with is entering "10,20" for a rectangle - this might not work if you haven't set your system up to use US style measurements, units and currency. Instead, this might work: "10;20" - this will especially be relevant to european Mac users.
Other tips: Circles do not accept radii below 0.5mm - to get around this, draw a circle with the radius 100 times larger (eg. 30), then use push/pull as needed and group it as an object. Now use the Scale tool to scale it, enter "0.1", press return. Scale it again, enter "0.1" and press return. You now have a cylinder with radius 0.3mm.
Also "intersect with selection" has a lot of problems with small radii. Again, draw 100 times larger, then scale down.
(This especially solves problems when you have two 3mm diameter cylinders / rods that you want to intersect - sometimes you might need to make them 1000 times larger and scale down by 0.1 three times).
"Intersect with selection" allows you to "drill" a round hole in a round cylinder. You can do this by moving one cylinder into the other cylinder, then click the round face of one cylinder, shift-click the round face of the other cylinder, right-click and choose "intersect -> with selection". Remove the unwanted faces of the "drill cylinder" and you're left with a round hole through or halfway through the cylinder. You still need to make sure your cylinders are large (preferrably larger than 100mm radius). There are CZcams videos about this, but they do not mention the radius problem.
"Follow Me" also have problems; especially with making circles into spheres. I haven't found a complete solution; it seems there are always holes in two "ends" of the sphere.
Note: I'm using SketchUp 7 and SketchUp 8, so you can make all my tips work with even older versions.
Yes please more more more!! I'm trying to learn the free version the last few days. Thanks for this
❗️Fantastic ❗️
Thank you so much Sai and James, a job well done.
I really appreciate both of you doing this, it is very helpful and clearly explained. Please keep doing these tutorials.
❤️LTKs❤️
This is GREAT! I'm trying to learn SketchUp and your method of teaching is easy to follow & repeat! Think it's great that you & your daughter work together!
Thank you so much for this great tutorial! I have made several attempts at working with SketchUp and have not been successful, but your approach makes it much clearer and, hopefully, will make me more successful. Please continue with the tutorials. I look forward to being productive with this tool. I am impressed that Sai could be self-taught and will look to her for inspiration. Thanks again.
I know I’m late to the comments but this was a great video. You are a gifted teacher. I love that your daughter learned this first to help her daddy. You must be doing something right.👍🏻
James & team, this is a GREAT video. I especially like that you did the simple table and then STARTED AGAIN and did the second one. YES KEEP THEM COMING! !! !!! And thanks
This is a great tutorial. Thank you! Would love to see more videos in this series. You've inspired me to download Sketch Up and try it myself.
I like your teaching style! definitely the best way to learn! keeps you engage does prevent boredom!
The tip about Sketchup Make 2017 vs. the browser version was golden. Thank you!
Dude, you and your daughter rock. I have looked at several other tutorial videos and attempted this before without any success. After the first 12.5 mins of watching this video (minus pausing and rewinding a few times), I was able to complete the first table. Thank you so much for this tutorial and please keep making more and showing us how to add measurements for actual wood cuts.
Great tutorial, I learned much. I also would love to see more on this. Thank you.
YES! MORE MORE MORE! Well done!! Thank you!
Just wanted to give you a huge THANK YOU for this video! Newer to woodworking, brand new to design. Everyone talked about this program and after watching this I have a firm and comfortable framework for how to make my own designs. Looking forward to more in this series :)
WOW! I've tried all the other sketchup tutorials and yours is by far the best and easiest to learn by - THANK YOU! Yes, I would like to see more. Thank you again!
Thank you James for showing us with this tutorial. I downloaded the web version not knowing that older version is more powerful. Haven't tried yet and now with this tutorial I will learn how to use it. Looking forward for more sketch up tutorials!
Great tutorial! No waisted time and very clear instructions!
This was so much more helpful than any other sketch up videos I’ve seen. Please keep them coming!
thank you so much for showing me this! i never thought i would be able to learn this program but you have made it easy!
Big thanks for the great tutorial. Love the way you teach by jumping right in and the calm soothing voice does help. It’s really inspiring to see the way you involve your daughters. Just last night, Ella, 5 years old and I was standing in my home shop way past bedtime.
I thank you all so much I been trying to learn this sketchup for years and I watch this video and now I’m sketching .I understand now and still learning 🙏🏾thank you so much
I like the way you teach Sketch-up. Unlike your daughter, I’ve had a hard time learning it.
Please continue our education.
Yes! I need to learn this! More please! Also I love your channel and have learned a lot. Thank you!