Sketchup: Mortise and tenon joinery

[@JosephEllisLBK]

Great tutorials! I really appreciate all the great resources you make available here on KZbin and on your website. I'm a keyboard-shortcut addict, so I've got a little tip for you: When you're ready to get rid of construction lines, rather than clicking on and deleting each individual line, press the E key to activate the Eraser tool, then just click and drag across the construction lines to delete them.

[@JoseCruz-nf9ye]

I've watched some very good and useful tutorials for Sketchup and so far yours are the best in my opinion since you get to the point and at the same explain everything very clearly. Thanks.

[@sssiod]

Thank you Matthias. I try to complete tutorials and eventually get stumped and tired of trying to follow along. You walk through everything straight as an arrow and exactly how it's intended to be with no extra garbage. I'm attempting to build your dust collector and the box joint jig. Just bought the plans and now collecting parts.

[@reggiesmith6423]

I just started learning Sketchup and this presentation is worth a meal in itself. Thank you for posting.

[@Bill_CBR]

Hey Matthias, thanks for making these available. I've watched them before, but don't use SketchUp on a regular basis, so I forget a lot. It's nice to come back, view it again and refresh those skills and memories.

[@N5omn1ac]

big fan for a long time, always entertained and educated with your videos, PSYCHED that you're now making "virtual" creations AND showing us a few tips and tricks! Gotta say, already this video alone solved a big issue I was having with a simple fix. I keep forgetting to keep it simple in sketchup. Thanks again! Can't wait for more tutorials

[@oxwilder]

There's a convenient feature that would make the mortises appear automatically called "intersect." It's where SketchUp senses the presence of the tenon and accommodates whatever material it intersects with. You can do this for dowels, tongue and groove, dovetail, anything. Just a time saver.

[@roop-a-loop]

holy shiiiit

[@Larenzoid]

Excellent tutorial, Matt. I've got a small table to build so your instructions will be very helpful in the near future. I need to spend some time with Sketchup and see if I can figure it out a little better. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Larry

[@matthiaswandel]

I'm confused about your question, but as you can see in the video, what I do works.

[@garrettation]

Very Helpful videos Matthias, thank you. In case anyone else needs this, if you right click an object you can select "make unique". This means that any changes made to this items, or items previously copied from it, will not affect the object as it is now unique. I had to use this tool as I had supports lower down but with the front side empty so couldn't have random mortise on the legs.

[@nafitron]

Thank you for this! I love how you are walking through each piece--very well done!

[@eried]

Very nice tutorials! Few extra hints: You can press Ctrl after moving, switches from clone/move. And you can use push/pull without selecting an area first

[@Blagger3000]

Excellent tutorial, I often wondered what software you used and this seems so user friendly to use, I shall adopt this and try it out, many thanks for saving me a lot of searching for the ideal tool.

[@JoseCruz-nf9ye]

That "Flip" command it's awesome and very useful. Love it.

[@theothermarshal]

Great tips, as always. Thanks for sharing Matthias!

[@titan420]

Wow, you're everywhere. I'm familiar with your webpage as I visit it quite often. Tonight, I typed in "Sketchup mortise" in Google and this was the first video. I knew I found the right one as soon as I heard your voice. Perfect vid, thanks.

[@matthiaswandel]

yes, but re-pushing it on the leg is just as fast as cleaning up the cut and paste.

[@vskkgaming]

Great tutorial. ..I am working on a router table design and will definitely use this mortise and tenon design. Thank you sir.

[@paulellingham9358]

Great work on the videos in general. Amazing stuff. The pantorouter is incredible. I've picked up some great tips from this SketchUp vid. You really need "Edit...delete guides"!

[@matthiaswandel]

See my video on "designing the tiliting router lift", starting about 30 seconds in.

[@cleric022684]

Hello great videos!I'm watching all of your them for the past 2 days and I learn something in every one of them, But you might learn something from me also, if you did not figured this out already, when you use the push/pull tool in the sketch up you don't have to type in the amount each time if you double click the next surface it will automatically perform the last action that you made(if you want to pull the 4 edges of the table just type 5 for the first and double click for the rest 3 )

[@WayneWBishop]

True genius at work!

[@pekkagronfors7304]

Very good. All Your SketchUp videos.

[@matthiaswandel]

That might be the subject of a future video.

[@Dimieuh]

Wow, great video Matthias! Very useful, keep up the good work! :-)

[@tabhorian]

I didn't know about "paste in place". That is wicked cool.

[@matthiaswandel]

If you make the table top an object, and you hide it (without opening the object), the whole object is hidden.

[@fixitwithzim]

Got it...thanks. Forgot about that triple click you did with the legs.

[@speedbump0619]

The mirror symmetry of the leg makes the mirror operation geometrically equivalent to a rotation. It is important to distinguish between the two if you might ever eliminate the mirror symmetry. More often the mirror operation would be correct for furniture.

[@leon1973lvm]

I bought several of your plans and are fabulous, can you tell me where I can get a free version Sketchup for beginners?

[@abenacchio]

Another great video.

[@wvb93]

looking forward to future videos!

[@fixitwithzim]

I've watched the first video and moved on to this one - all the while making my own model in sketchup of yours to learn. Question: I think a step is left out between video 1 and 2. When I go to hide the table top in your first step of this video, it only hides the top face of to table - the sides and bottom of the top are still visable. What is this step in between I'm missing to group all these parts?

[@threeque]

You seemed to make this table so fast I was curious, so just for fun I drew this table in SolidWorks. I timed myself and it took me 15 minutes to do what you did in two videos of about 20 minutes. You were teaching as well and not focusing on just drawing. So you get a big handicap for that. So I have to say Sketch-up, although having no parametric dimensions, seems pretty darn good. Especially for free! Did you edit much drawing time out?

[@KirkYoungbauer]

I'd have to assume the purpose to get so detailed on the furniture would be for someone who is going to build it, correct? I've been designing some house sketches and have only been creating the objects that can be seen from the surface.

[@garythompson2834]

I down loaded Sketchup for furniture building. My version seems to be for house floor plans instead of furniture. Did I down load wrong version?

[@phlytyer]

Thanks for the great tutorial!

[@Alan_Garkle]

Great video. Thanks. Once completed in SketchUp is it possible to produce a parts list or cutting list of some sort (with dimensions).

[@1crazynordlander]

Hi Matthias Now that I have made over 20 models of my projects back before your tutorials were published can I go and make objects out of all the parts? I made every line separate except for when I could use the push pull tool. If I only have watched this video before all my creations it would have save me a bunch of time. Thanks for the video! Kevin

[@matthiaswandel]

sketchup.com. There's only the pro version now, which degrades into the free version after the trial period expired.

[@Techmatt167Official]

How did you make the tenons appear on each side of the 4 aprons? Does it do it automatically?

[@givreycham]

Hi Matthias Another great and helpful video......just one question. Why do you use centimetres in preference to millimetres ? Seems another point to get in the wrong place ? Geoff

[@profedemus]

Hi Mathias!! I need help with sketchup, i did my design, but How do you make the planes for the cutting? I realy appreciate your help.

[@tabhorian]

Suppose the tenon is not right in the middle. Sometimes you don't, and for good reason - it might be a small piece, and you don't want your mortices to meet in the leg, otherwise the tenons would interfere with each other. So you offset them to be more outside of center. If you don't use mirror images of your apron rails, then you can see that the tenons would be messed up. Mirror images fix that.

[@laymounada]

idk what im doing here like 10 years later but like my school uses this version could link me up to the download of it? thank you :D

[@zahidmehdi4290]

nice work great

[@seankelley4296]

How did you get it to create a tenat on all 4 rails when you did it on one? I had to do one for each

[@radesigns001]

He made the first rail / leg a "component" instead of a group. Sketchup then treats additional rails / legs as identical copies so any changes you do to one of them is also done to the rest.

[@rynor7132]

what a great program, exactly what i need. what program is it?

[@welshnutterz]

thanks, great vid, now im off to work to do it in huge green oak, hehe

[@MyVinylRips]

How did the tenons appear on every apron?

[@alanochanman]

I think he's asking about 9:03 and wondering why you can just flip it as opposed to just rotating the legs 90 degrees. The reason is (i think) that if you just rotate them 90 degrees, the slight horizontal offset wouldn't match up anymore.

[@itachismail]

thank you very much, very very very helpful

[@creativewoodworks]

I don’t understand how you did tenons on one apron and it applied to all of your aprons

[@row907]

i dont even know why i watch all this, but i still do

[@yonatan1myers]

Nice video, nice and simple. One thing though. you could have used ""intersect solids" to get the joinery. (it could have another name I'm not sure maybe "intersect with model")

[@AxelAhmer]

great video, thank you

[@Majorvideonut2]

Help, I downloaded Sketchup and trying to set it up the way you have yours with this video and can't find the same items under windows etc. How do I set this up for the first use?

[@matthiaswandel]

I'm using sketchup 8 (older version) That might have something to do with it.

[@Majorvideonut2]

That's the version I have. Don't know how to get the default on architec etc.

[@drawingbard]

You can find this on the file menu -> preferences -> templates. (If you're on a Mac it is not in the File menu, but in the "SketchUp" menu)

[@westradar72]

@ 8.45: thank you "objects" for making CAD more organised. Thanks Mattias for the enlightenment : )

[@messenger8279]

That's so helpfull many thanks

[@valobar17]

very helpful tutorial Thanks,

[@NikosDIY]

Hi! Can anyone help. I just started using sketchup and when I input a dimension for a rectangle (let's say 600,400) I get a rectangle of 600,4mm and 451mm or so... What am I doing wrong ?

[@NikosDIY]

Nevermind, just found out what was wrong. Instead comma (,) I have to use semicolon (;). So when I input 600;400 everything works like a charm. Possibly because I used Woodworking template in milimeters or there is somewhere an setting to change the semicolon to comma.

[@stygn]

@Mr2at No, it's the free one.

[@trieuhanminh1992]

9.00 please i don't understand?

[@Mr2at]

is this the pro version?

[@uchsawin9698]

Thank you so much!!

[@matthiaswandel]

No drawing time edited out, but lots of "umms" and "ahh's..." and other misspeaking edited out

[@DoubleDTVx2]

10

[@Bennydunks]

Doodle

[@dkoreidecoracoes4024]

Not Legend =(