popularwoodworking.com: With SketchUp, you can use a photo of a piece of furniture to make a model of the piece. From that model you can develop your plans for building a reproduction. Here’s an example using the Shaker Stepback Cupboard made by Glen D. Huey for our April 2010 issue. I swiped the image off the cover, and I know the overall dimensions. Images from the web are often too low a resolution to be really useful, and the best photos are ones you take yourself. If you can get a dead-straight view from the front and side, the process will be easier. Otherwise, you’ll need to take into account the perspective of the photo when you take dimensions in SketchUp and make the model. The first step is to import the model into SketchUp.
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It's possible I'm wrong--I'm new at this--but this seems like a massive, important development in computer drafting. This is not even a scanned 3D object, but a photograph. That's pretty cool.
I wouldn't mind having some training in sketch-up. It's really powerful for what it is, and it's a very intuitive program, much more so than auto-cad. In spite of this it's not, in my opinion, very user friendly, but neither is autocad, and I think sketch-up is much easier to 'grasp'. Yes, yes: Autocad is the best thing ever and the most powerful and everyone needs to know it in order to not fail at life and all that. But someday there will be a better program than Autocad, and learning other programs that will likely be incorporated into this future program couldn't hurt.
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