WheelsFellOff wrote:Anyone use sketchup and know of some good tutorials? I played around with it when Google introduced it but never really went further than that and the workflow is quite different to what I'm used to in AutoCAD. Specifically, I'm thinking of using it at home to design some furniture-type projects to make use of my BiL's wood shop.

why wouldn't you just use AutoCAD to do it?

CalvinBall wrote:henry isnt his name? feel lied to tbh

His real name is Calvin, and that would have been too confusing.

jamiethekiller wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:Anyone use sketchup and know of some good tutorials? I played around with it when Google introduced it but never really went further than that and the workflow is quite different to what I'm used to in AutoCAD. Specifically, I'm thinking of using it at home to design some furniture-type projects to make use of my BiL's wood shop.

why wouldn't you just use AutoCAD to do it?

I don't have a license for my home PC, plus I want to learn something.

I'm also considering trying to learn Blender for the possibility of making custom game asset mods and also just to play around in.

WheelsFellOff wrote:

jamiethekiller wrote:

WheelsFellOff wrote:Anyone use sketchup and know of some good tutorials? I played around with it when Google introduced it but never really went further than that and the workflow is quite different to what I'm used to in AutoCAD. Specifically, I'm thinking of using it at home to design some furniture-type projects to make use of my BiL's wood shop.

why wouldn't you just use AutoCAD to do it?

I don't have a license for my home PC, plus I want to learn something.

ah. i have desktop for my main machine. but work also has given me a laptop as well for when i head to vendors/plant sites. so i can just grab my work laptop and use that to design up whatever i need.

Who knew that the world's worst traffic is in the town of Winchester, VA

It has been extra windy for like a month straight and it is pissing me off. I HATE WIND!!!!!!

what is with the feet kissing by the pope

Pretty common fetish actually.

If the Pope tried to kiss my feet I would kick his head off.

I've had my feet washed by a couple priests. it was no big deal

WilliamC wrote:If the Pope tried to kiss my feet I would kick his head off.

Enjoy your eternity in the fires of HELL

That ain't what the priests said

So harsh for not wanting some old guy in a dress too kiss my feet.

WilliamC wrote:So harsh for not wanting some old guy in a dress too kiss my feet.

Rules are rules

WheelsFellOff wrote:Anyone use sketchup

Some people call it scatsup

WheelsFellOff wrote:Anyone use sketchup and know of some good tutorials? I played around with it when Google introduced it but never really went further than that

That's about the same as me. I also gave FreeCAD a spin, which seemed pretty descent.

My thinking is if I use another cad program similar to autocad I'll either be mad that it doesn't behave exactly like the nearly 20 years of AutoCAD practice I've had trained me to expect or I'll be really pissed at AutoCAD not doing something bleeding obvious that the free clone does. So at least with sketchup the basic engine necessitates an entirely different workflow than I'm used to.

And I realize after checking the link that it seems to behave a whole lot more like Inventor

it was recently pointed out to me that my habit of grabbing the maitr'd mic and saying "christ, party of 13" is incorrect, as it should be party of 26, since they only sat on one side of the table.

But they didnt share the table. They just gathered on that side for the pic