Sketchup Session 4: Getting Your Drawings Into the Shop

We've finished our drawing now in SketchUp, so let's come in and take a look at it. So what do we do with this drawing now? Well, we can take it out to our shop. If we looked at our other drawing you remember before how we had a texture applied to it. Well, we'll get into that later, it's sort of a thing of its own. And to bring this drawing out to the shop you really don't need texture on it. If you're gonna show it to somebody texture would indeed be nice, but so let's just close that down. I'm gonna show you some things that I'll help you label some of the parts as well as get some dimensions on this. So I'm gonna open up, if I go up to window up here. So we go up from SketchUp all the way to window and I come down here and I go to components. I'm just gonna left click on there and you'll notice this group comes down and these are all the components that we made. Remember every time we made it a part, we label it as a component. So here it's the bottom, the end, front and end, inner-in-lay, so let's go ahead. I'm gonna just move this over here. And I'm gonna click on this and then I'm gonna drag this over here. See, I noticed there's a replica at the bottom, and I'm gonna take my end and I'm gonna bring it over here and then I can take a front and then I can take a inner-in-lay, Oops, get on the object, click on that. And I could do the outer-in-lay, but here's the whole top. Remember we made that a group or a component. And then the other part, I guess is the outer in lay that we could put down here. So any essentially, we've got a grouping here. I'm gonna just close this components out for right now of everything that we made. So there's all of our components. Of course, we have two of these and then we can dimension these and then print this thing out and bring it to the shop. So here's our dimensions to it. We really haven't talked too much about this a little bit but if I come over here and let's say this is our bottom piece, this will go right to the ends. Now it's there and I can drag this out and click again and I get a dimension. So it's the outer dimension of that. Or I can click on the midpoint and the top over here and go to the mid point over there. And I could slide that over. So it's seven and a quater by six inches. Now I could do that with all of the parts. I can come over here with this complex part here and dimension that out and come right to the end right to the end of there and come over. And we know it's four inches high. We could come to the midpoint of here. And we know that that's three A's could come up here and it's a quarter and we can get the length overall length and bring that over. So that's very helpful. You can even come in with a label too well. And it'll tell you what that component is because we named the component before. So we could do that on here, and that's the end. And this one is called the front and end. I think I meant front and back. And then here is our top and we could dimension all these things, you know find it an angle where we could read everything or you could just come in and print different parts of it and then bring multiple pages out. So that's something you can bring right to your shop, use it. And so it's sort of like a, a cutting diagram the pieces you have to make. So you don't have to keep referring to something else. You've got it all on one page. How do we go about making a JPEG or a PDF of, of these parts? Let's go ahead and move some of these around. So I'm gonna just move this over here. And I'm gonna move this over here and let's just take this front and end. I can slide this over. Maybe get a little better angle and then I'm gonna zoom in and just these three parts. So whatever in SketchUp whatever's on the screen is what I'm going to print. So if I come up here on my file and I come down and it'll say exports, I'm up in file. And I just pull my most down till it says export. Now I wanna do a 2D graphic. So don't worry about what graphic is. It's just, this is gonna be a 2D representation of what we have on this screen. So I'm gonna left click and we'll get a box. That'll come up so I can title this and I can just put box 1 for right now for lack of anything better. And then it will ask where I wanna put it. Now, I'm just gonna put it in my documents folder for now. But you could if you have some other places where you wanna put this go ahead, but I'm just putting it in my documents. And it'll say, format PDF file. You've got also choose a JPEG if you just wanted a picture of it but I'm gonna choose PDF cause I can just print that up and there'll be options to the size and all that but we won't get into for right now, but we just want a PDF. So I'm gonna just hit export, left, click on that. So now it's sent it. I'm gonna go in and find my documents. And I've got a whole bunch of things in here. But if I go down to this part and I click on that that's exactly what we had on our screen. And so I could send this to my printer or if I wanted to even email it to somebody and show them what I'm working on. This is it. So this is what you bring to your shop and you could get started cutting and shaping your pieces. That's it for our first SketchUp tutorial. We've covered a lot of ground. We've learned how to set up SketchUp for your use at home how to manipulate the tools, the objects label some dimensions, print out some drawings for your shop. So look forward to more tutorials coming up in the future. Hope you've enjoyed him. I know I have.