Layout & Cut List - Sketchup for Woodworkers Tutorial 3

In this Lesson plan I show you how to make semi circles and layouts for providing a cutlist to take directly to your shop and batch cut all the pieces. This is a longer lesson b/c there are a lot of things to go over, but I hope this will help clear up confusion on how to do this rather elusive problem that most of us woodworkers face.
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[@johnisley1285]

Did all three lessons and I think I finally got it. Thank you

[@rhwoodshop]

Well there are a bunch more. Search my playlist

[@Ben-attas]

Thank you so much for your very well done videos ! You are such a great teacher 👏👏👏👏

[@richardhyman6981]

I've always been woodworking for over 7 years and I've always been intimidated by Sketchup. I've loved the finished product provided by other woodworkers when I was working form their plans or cut lists, but never tried it. You actually made lessons that I was actually able to follow and steadily build on what I learned in the last videos. Thank you so much and please do make more!!

[@rhwoodshop]

+Richard Hyman I have more to come and I’m so glad you learned what you wanted to.

[@Ben-attas]

Thank you so much for your videos ! You are such a great teacher 👍👍👍👏

[@jimhester2004]

Wow. A lot to digest in this one. But I'll keep watching it over and over until it soaks in. Thanks for the reminder about the color of the dotted lines. I had forgotten about that, and this should make things easier.

[@rhwoodshop]

Sorry for all of the info but I did shorten my videos after the first four that I did so there isn’t so much thrown at you. Glad you like the video though and found a couple of things in there useful.

[@jimhester2004]

@@rhwoodshop No problem. I'm a "learn by rote" person, and always watch things repeatedly anyway.

[@jimhester2004]

I just watched the video for the 3rd time, and this time made the drawing along with the video. It's making a lot more sense, although I don't think I will ever be able to intuitively know the plane to flip along or rotate on. But I can live with that. I thought of something during your "sales pitch": I think it would be inevitable that someday you'll hear "Oh! can you make the circle cutout a star? A heart? A unicorn?" 1. How do you deal with requests like that? 2. Is shape drawing something that will be explained later in the series? I'm thouroughly enjoying this series. I've taken a couple of other courses online, and one of the great things about your course is that you show what the student needs to know, but not a lot of other "Look how smart I am" tricks that only serve to confuse. And it's great that you usually repeat each new technique a couple of times to help the idea sink in. Great job. Thanks.

[@jimhester2004]

Whoops. It didn't take my whole reply. In the sales pitch, you will probably get questions like "Can you make the circle cutout a star? A heart? A unicorn?" 1. How do you deal with requests like that?. 2. Will drawing shapes like that be covered later in the series?

[@jimhester2004]

I'm really enjoying this series. I've taken a couple of other courses online, and I like yours better because you show what the student needs to know without a bunch of "look what I know" tricks that only serve to confuse. And you usually repeat each new technique so the idea sinks in. Great job. Thanks.

[@SmallWorkshopGuy]

I have been trying learn Sketchup for a while, but your series of 3 videos finally made things click for me. Thanks!

[@rjtumble]

I have some kitchen cabinets to build for my wife, this lesson series is making my life much much easier, thanks for producing it. Looking forward to using Sketchup for lots of woodworking projects.

[@rhwoodshop]

So awesome to hear and I am so glad that you got use out of this so far.

[@lynnwallerstedt8094]

This is the most well done teaching aid that I've seen on sketchup yet. Thank you for making this video, and sharing with us.

[@rhwoodshop]

+Lynn Wallerstedt awesome. Thank You!!!

[@robertherzog2087]

I have watched many tutorials on SketchUp but none compare to the value I got from yours. You explained clearly how and why you do things. I watched a video by Jay Bates but he zoomed through the process so fast you couldn't understand how he did it. Thank you so much for making the time and effort to produce this series of tutorials.

[@rhwoodshop]

That makes me feel good that I am doing this the right way. Thank you so much for this comment and I hope to bring more to the table in future lessons

[@margan59]

I watched several tutorials on Sketchup and was about to give up. Your lessons are clear don't assume I know things that I don't. THANKS!

[@rhwoodshop]

+M. Peters That was my goal the whole time. I have noticed that when people do tutorials they are very hard to follow because they assume you already know everything there is to know to get started on sketch up. I wanted to be able to break it down so it’s easy to follow the entire way.

[@kennethgreen9689]

Seriously, thank You! Love the scetch up tutorial. Others are either too in depth or too basic. Yours is perfect! BOOM!

[@rhwoodshop]

So glad to hear it. I’m doing something right then.

[@lockpicknewbie5159]

Another great tutorial Drew. I appreciate the time you take to do these and the quality that you put into them.

[@davidedwards1048]

Thank you Drew for taking time out to share your knowledge, it has proved invaluable

[@rhwoodshop]

You are so welcome. I am so glad you are able to figure it out for yourself.

[@SavageSP]

Thank you for this series! I would also be interested in how you make your plans, and anything else you're willing to pass on. These have been the best Tutorials by far that I have watched!

[@ljgault]

I see you got it fixed. I watched it earlier and it was very informative. I'm actually learning Sketch up after trying for 5 years. Thank you.

[@rhwoodshop]

Yes I did get it fixed. I don’t know what happened during the editing process but it takes forever to load that particular video

[@arbyars.chicksawdust]

I have learned a lot. I am working on windows some things are a lot different. Example the Paint Bucket use works and looks different. I have to hold the shift key down to color the whole object. Paint Bucket also has three squares that tell you how it will color. I haven't figured it out yet. Drew please keep your videos coming. PS. from Beggs, OK.

[@rhwoodshop]

Hey fellow okie! That’s awesome. Nice to meet you.

[@chrisdean9826]

Very great instructions. Please keep these lessons up. I would love to see how you do plans. Didn't think of doing the cut list in word great tip. Oh and one more thing BOOM!

[@rhwoodshop]

Thank You Chris! I appreciate you taking the time to drop a line. Plane are something I am going to do.

[@StuffUCanMake]

I am always learning something super useful here.

[@rhwoodshop]

So great to hear!

[@rickcook5335]

This is a great tutorial. Well presented and easy to follow. I've been "beating my way through" Sketchup, but this helps me so much. Thanks and keep up the good work.

[@rhwoodshop]

so glad you are getting use from it. I must be doing something right then.

[@wtcgrip1]

thanks great job for being precise in the explanations

[@timfoster5043]

@8:10, I believe you can type "x4 [ENTER]" to make 4 boards. It's a bit easier than copy/moving twice.

[@AndreaArzensek]

I enjoyed and learned some new things from your workflow. I'm really looking forward to lesson 4. Cheers

[@rhwoodshop]

+Andrea's Workshop thank you so much Andrea I have another one in the works

[@BlessedLaymanNC]

Thank you for these videos. I really learned how to get around and plan at least simple projects, if not some intermediate ones. I had a lot of trouble with the dovetails, but it wasn't due to your video. Somehow I kept overlooking the second step of cutting the groove and expected the draw to cut both boards at one time. Well, I'm over it now. Again, Thank you, I have subed and rung.

[@WackeyWorxWorkshop]

I really like these episodes. I would really like you to show how you make your plans.

[@MrOwen703]

Well done Drew. Now I know! And knowing is half the battle!

[@rhwoodshop]

GI Joe (insert music jingle here) Thank you Luke!

[@BookofIsaiah]

AWESOME lessons Drew!!!!!

[@rhwoodshop]

Thank you so much, I am glad you are liking it.

[@909Living]

These videos are fantastic! Would live to see more from you about sketchup. Maybe how to create actual blueprints for dado placement and showing the angle cuts. Plus how to get these drawings on paper to take out to the shop.

[@datadev1]

Another great video Drew. This has been an excellent series and I look forward to other SketchUp videos. Thanks for sharing.

[@romulusclay6697]

Excellent! Thank you for this series, I hope this will be ongoing. Also for a cut list I use a program called “Cut Calculator”. it’s great when you need to optimize 4 x 8 sheets of material. It’s an app that I use on an iPad not sure if it’s available for any computer use.

[@rhwoodshop]

I will have to look that up. Thanks for the info.

[@billprocter942]

Glad to see you’re back. Thanks for the tutorial.

[@markdancer3501]

You could use the OpenCultList extension, which is free and happily runs in Sketchup Make.

[@rhwoodshop]

+Mark Dancer oh?!? I need to look that up then. Thank You!!!

[@jeffkhar76]

Yes, I can verify that the OpenCutList extion works awesome! An external program I found that I also like is a web based tool: culistoptimizer.com. I do prefer the first one because it's actually integrated into SketchUp. But I like the web tool when I'm "freeflowing" ideas. And awesome job with the tutorial man, I wish I'd discovered you sooner!!

[@spencerjw]

Great video, this is the one I was waiting for! One thing that may be able to help out a bit is instead of using the dato to get the dimension (width) of the Apron you can measure from the pointed tip, along the 45* angle to the other side of the board (click a second time) and actually get three separate measurements. As a third click you can pull down (parallel to the board) to get the width, or pull to the right (perpendicular to the board) to get the height of the cut or as a third option, pull parallel to the cut (parallel to the 45* cut) to get the length of the cut itself. Moving the mouse around will give you different dimension options.

[@rhwoodshop]

I will give that a try and if it works out I’ll give you a shout out on a video showing people that option

[@spencerjw]

@@rhwoodshop Threw together a real quick screen recording and posted it on YT - kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5OYZp-rZdiLis0

[@jtmin1]

Excellent as in the two previous lessons. I would like to know about 3rd party addons that can help you with cut lists. Have you found them handy or do you always just do the process you did now. Looking forward to the next lesson. Sketchup is finally making sense.

[@ian1957ruth]

I think the 3rd party add-ons do not work with this particular version of Sketch-up. You will have to buy the full version or get the download free version.

[@johnslaughter5475]

I use CutList Plus for creating my cut lists. It isn't as good as it could be for the most efficient, but is fairly easy to move things around. You can also specify to follow the grain orientation. I found it best to buy the upgrade. For small projects, the free version may do well for most people.

[@rhwoodshop]

I might have to give that plug-in a look

[@johnslaughter5475]

@@rhwoodshop It's a separate program. You might be able to suggest to them making a cut down version that would work as a plug-in with sketchup.

[@BookofIsaiah]

Hey Drew! I'd be interested in seeing how you make your plans in Pages, if you have time to do a video for it.

[@rhwoodshop]

I got it down for ideas for the future. Thank you!

[@epenaloza52]

awesome video I'm a carpenter and have always wanted a program to sketch out my projects and show them to customers let me tell you the first time I tried it was completely overwhelming for me...im doing my first project with is its a murphy bed just got one question how do you tilt the entire portion of the bed? thank you in advance for any info

[@rhwoodshop]

+epenaloza52 when you say tilt, are you meaning rotate just the mattress carriage? If so you will need to hide the cabinet that goes around the carriage which will leave the carriage only. Highlight the entire carriage and do the rotate function and rotate it along where the hardware will be mounted.

[@ralphglidden8859]

Well done. I haven't read all of the other comments so I may be repeating, or maybe I didn't fully understand the cut sheet lay out. When you were making the top, You listed 1 board at 3/4" x 6" x 47 1/2". to make the top 12" wide, you would need two of those, correct? I have watched several videos on Sketch up for woodworking and this series has been the best and easiest to follow. Looking forward to catching all of your tutorials.

[@rhwoodshop]

Yes you would need two of those, you are correct. Glad to hear that these videos are helping you out and I am glad to hear that they are also easy to follow. That was my entire intention when I first started the series. I have many more. Thank You!!!

[@vassiton]

Using Sketchup Make (free version) you can use "opencutlist" from extension warehouse.

[@rhwoodshop]

I have found it since this video. Thank You!!! I like it too

[@darrinwesterfeld8948]

Great lesson. Trying to get a handle on Sketch Up and your vids have really helped. On the cut list, where do you take into account the subtraction for squaring up the end grain and jointing the long edges? Your lesson is just showing keeping track of the kerf. Thanks.

[@rhwoodshop]

You don’t. That’s why you make the kerf to insure it fits on the plank template

[@jjcaiv]

Would definitely like to learn how you make plans with pages.

[@stevehubner560]

Your making it look easy i wished my laptop would make the parts selecta s fast as yours!

[@rhwoodshop]

Sorry yours is working slow. Hopefully, it will work for you. I use a mac and it is pretty speedy.

[@jayfrancis9567]

Hi Drew I would like to see how you do your plans in Pages. Thanks

[@michaelmcdonough1989]

Super presentation. When making copies of your template dimension lumber after you drop the first copy if you type X3 (times 3) you will make three copies of the original.

[@rhwoodshop]

Sweet, I’m gonna have to give that a shot. But does like you say it will I’ll throw it in a video. Give you a shout out for that

[@rhwoodshop]

I tried this out and my mind has been blown. You get a shout out my man.

[@michaelmcdonough1989]

@@rhwoodshop Glad you tried it out. Makes it a lot easier to copy multiple copies. There are a few ways to use this short cut. If you want several copies of an item, say 6 inches apart, copy the original and move it 6 inches drop it and then hit the X (times) and the number of copies. Also, you can divide a given area up equally by using the / (divide) by the number of copies you want. Example, you are drawing a bookcase that is going to be 48 inches tall and 36 inches wide with three shelves equally spaced. after you draw the sides and the bottom shelf copy it and move it to the top drop it and then hit the /4 and enter. Now you will have your bookcase with three equally spaced shelves. Try it out I think you will like it.

[@michaell7877]

Drew? Where is the cutlist and layout of this? I thought it should of showed up in the sketchup program?

[@rhwoodshop]

Michael Lusk Disabled Vet WoodWorker I’m not sure what you are meaning here Michael. I went through the video and showed you how to make a cut list but this video was made long before I knew about the extension “open cut list” which I plan on doing a video about in the near future once I master it a little bit better.

[@michaell7877]

Rock-n H Woodshop I thought it was supposed to show a picture of the layout cuts?

[@rhwoodshop]

Michael Lusk Disabled Vet WoodWorker It does, the three boards that I placed all of the parts on shows how they need to be cut

[@TwoSierraEcho]

I'd like to see how you do your plans as well. I'm guessing through scenes. Scenes and I don't get along. I move a component on one scene and it moves on another scene as well. Or something like that (its been a while). What ever it is, I'm doing something wrong. Like everyone else, great job on the videos. Side note, I have '17 installed but I still use old reliable SketchUp 8 by G8gle. :D

[@prakashkadaroo4012]

yep had to look at again but I want to do a chamfer on a door profile with mitered joints

[@rhwoodshop]

Okay something I will put that on the list.

[@aaronhayes8873]

Check out the open cut list extension

[@ghita.herdean.1979]

You need to modify your cut list because you need 2 bench tops (because it's 6''). Don't worry, we'll still call it 6 board bench, not 7 board bench. Thanks for the tutorials.

[@rhwoodshop]

Oops, I forgot to add the (2)

[@1943reb]

Well done , I need help printing from sketch up .

[@rhwoodshop]

OK I’ll throw that on as a list of items to touch on in another video. What kind of printings are you wanting to do?

[@1943reb]

Rock-n H Woodshop I do woodworking projects sometimes they print ok and sometimes not.

[@rhwoodshop]

@@1943reb Okay, I have it down for a future video. Thank you

[@moehoward01]

So... you never got a board stretcher?

[@prakashkadaroo4012]

i would like you to show how to chamfers and dove tails

[@rhwoodshop]

Well I did show how to make the sliding dovetail for the shelf on episode two, creating joints. Is that not what you mean?

[@malcolmmarks7374]

Still having trouble keeping my plan in the centre of the screen. Can you advise.

[@rhwoodshop]

Whenever you rotate your project?

[@malcolmmarks7374]

Rock-n H Woodshop Yes when I rotate the project it can go off Centre and have great difficulty in getting it back to Centre in the view I'm looking for.

[@rhwoodshop]

When you rotate keep your cursor on top of the project. It’s going to follow the plane that you assign your mouse whenever you apply the function. Always keep it on top of your project

[@malcolmmarks7374]

Rock-n H Woodshop Thank you Drew. I'll give that a try. Also you keep mentioning an OPTION key. I like yourself is using a MacBook and I do not have an OPTION key. What is it I'm supposed to be using. Ps. I did warn you I was thick😂

[@rhwoodshop]

Whenever you have your move function turned on look down in the bottom left-hand corner to see which key you need to use for a copy, it will tell you.

[@martinwhitman1705]

Iam having truble dow loading Sketchup..........

[@rhwoodshop]

Make sure you are downloading the appropriate file for the appropriate operating system

[@oliverreedslovechild]

I managed to dowload it OK, even tho' it took over 20 minutes due to prehistoric download speed, but then I get told my graphics card can't handle the 3D aspect of Sketch up! What a bummer!

[@mikebuckley46]

this is insane, there are plugins for cut lists

[@rhwoodshop]

Yup learned that plug in later. At the time, this is all I knew. 😉

[@mikebuckley46]

Rock-n H Woodshop hehe cool 😎 you’re ok 👌 hope you have kids you’d make a good dad

[@rhwoodshop]

I have a daughter actually 9 years old now. Thank You!!!

[@Toddicus2914]

This website (also a free app): cutlistoptimizer.com/ will make a cut list and layout for you if you input the cut dimensions and quantity of your cuts along with the dimensions of the available lumber. It can even factor in your kerf and grain direction

[@rhwoodshop]

Very nice, I will check that out. Thank you