Google SketchUp Thread

Yeah I may be trying out a different program here soon if I can't figure it out.

We are just about to get a nice tubing notcher in my shop so I will actually be able to do some projects with tubing!

 

Late reply, Yes. Worked at a shop for a while, custom finishing and all. Then started a company and got into manufacturing. Used sketchup a lot.

Still make furniture in my spair time. Making this and 4 side tables in the next month.

 

I honestly use SketchUp a lot. I design just about all my 3D design in SketchUp Pro it's really a great program if you don't want to spend a shit ton of money on SW.

I made this water table for my TorchMate

 

^^^ do you have a actual picture of it, that looks sweet

 

Sure it's a pile of steel sitting in the back of my shop i still need to weld it together. My 4' gantry still isn't here yet so I haven't welded it together. Once it's all welded I'll post some pictures.

 

It's okay for tube work I do most of my tube stuff in bendtech but this was done in SketchUp










And built

 

Ok Ya Torchmates are really nice. So your doing the make your own kit then?

 

No I have a 2x4 Table right now and I upgraded my gantry to a 4' so I'm building a new table. I didn't want to spend $2,000 on TotchMate's water table when i can build one for 1/4 of the cost and stronger.

 

On that bedrack thing you made, whats the random plate in the center on top for?

Also what do you use to take your pictures on sketchup like that? Unless you have a mac, then I am guessing just screenshots?

I really need to learn how to make tubing easier on here.

 

PC's can take screenshots too...

 

The top plate is for a tire. All you need to do is export it as a .jepg. just move the design the way you want to see it in the picture and file export to to 2D model it exports a .jepg.

 

or that haha.

Does sketchup do image rendering? Ive done some sweet renderings on inventor that almost killed my computer.

 

I know newer ones do, but I just have no idea how to with mine. I have vista.

 

Oh right, should guessed that.

I'll try that, I wanted to post a couple things on here, just didn't know how to get pics of it.

 

print scrn button up above the insert button on the keyboard. Then just open up paint and hit ctrl-V.

 

I haven't done any but I think it does.

I have Vista on my laptop and my old one whit XP there is a print screen button on the key board.

 

.... always wondered what that did.

Haha good to know, I'll load on here a couple things I have drawn.

 

Snowmobile Trailer I built last year, designed it mostly from memory. Missing some stuff


Headache Racks I designed, friend just built the one on the right.

 

played around and made a bed rack based on BoxRockets

way out of scale... definitely need more practice at it

 

I like the bed rack idea.


I just made this sled deck idea to see if it would work with my 6ft bed.
Not so sure... The swing open doors are right on the edge of the tailgate. I think the deck itself will hang off too far. I just made this to see how it would look.