Here is the flyer for the January 31 demo with Cindy Drozda.

You can download it here.

The OCWA Christmas party sign up form is now up.  Please login (with your username and password) to the site and the go to this page to register.  You must be logged in for this page to work.

All of our archived newsletters that we have in electronic form (from Feb 2004 to Present) are now available on our "Newsletters" page.  From this point forward all of our newsletters will be put here.

You can navigate to that page click here.  You must be logged in to the site to access this page as it is a members only section.

The November 2008 newsletter has now been posted.

Originally we were discussing the possiblity of doing a class for Sketchup and after alot of thought I have decided that it may be better (and more pracical) to take requests for demo videos.

So if you have a request for a video tutorial (something you would like to learn how to draw in Sketchup), I will be taking email requests and posting them n the site here as I have time.  Please go to the Contact Us page and to send me an email.

You can see the ones I have already done down below in the Google Sketchup 3-D Information section.

Hello all!

I first wanted to thank everyone for the positive feedback on my presentation of Google Sketchup for woodworkers at the April meeting.  I was a bit nervous, but you all were very supportive as I have come to expect from our wonderful membership. 

As I promised in the presentation, I will be posting tutorials and informational links in this post.  I have added my first section of tutorials and I will keep adding more.  So keep checking back here as I add more and more.

Google Sketchup Resources:
Google Sketchup Official Web site
Google Sketchup 6 Download for Windows XP/2000/Vista
Google Sketchup 6 Download for Mac OS X 10.4
Sketchucation - Good site for tutorials and forums
Defcon X - Great site for textures that can be used in Sketchup

Sketchup for Woodworkers Tutorial Section:
Section 1: The Basics (Making a face frame cabinet):
Part 1 - Moving around and understanding the 3-D environment and modeling a piece of wood
Part 2 - Using components to make a mortise and tenon face frame
Part 3 - Making the cabinet carcass
Part 4 - Final Touches(Adding textures to the cabinet)

Section 2: Intermediate tutorials:
Creating a piece of mitered trim moulding
Creating a piece of mitered crown moulding

Section 3: Advanced tutorials (Coming Soon):

Sketchup Examples:
Examples that I made for the Sketchup demo I gave in April:
Kitchen Cabinet Example (The NYW design)
Cabinet Door Examples
Segmented Vessel Example

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