#Kitchen for sketchup how to#
#Kitchen for sketchup full#
#Kitchen for sketchup pro#

I get a headache just thinking about it.īut what if I could build my kitchen cabinets first in my computer? What if I could work out appliance locations look at different cabinet styles and see how they fit with existing door ways and windows? That would be cool, right? Doing these things ahead of time would help make a monstrous task much more manageable.

The reason my wife and I still live with old cabinets is that the task of building new cabinets is sooo daunting.

#Kitchen for sketchup full#

But buying a full set of kitchen cabinets is expensive and as a woodworker, I know I can build better cabinets than what I see in showrooms. These cabinets are woefully out of date and in desperate need of replacing. Our home was built about 1988 and we still have the original kitchen cabinets. In a recent review of my new book “SketchUp For Kitchen Design” Jeff Branch puts it this way: One of the reasons I write about kitchen cabinets in addition to historical and artistic work is my personal experience in leveraging the practical to make the artistic possible. Like most woodworkers I swing back and forth I love the artistic side but I also need to pay the bills or put something nice in my house that I otherwise couldn’t afford. And see many examples of our own clients’ work on our Facebook page.Woodworking is an interesting blend of the practical and the romantic. Many useful tips and techniques can be found at the SketchUp website.

#Kitchen for sketchup how to#

In our next SketchUp blog post we’ll show you how to create walls from this basic footprint, and cut out doors and windows. To tidy up the shapes elect the Eraser tool (E) and click on the inside line to delete it. Lastly pull upwards (on the Green axis) to connect to the rectangle. Pull to the left (on the Red axis) and type in 4000.

Pull downwards in the direction of the Green axis and type in 4000 and Enter. Move to the right and type directly onto the keyboard: 1500 and hit Enter. Now select the Line tool (L) and click on the bottom right corner.

Now type directly onto your keyboard: 12000,45000 and hit the Enter key ( Mac: Return). Next move across the screen and note the values in the Measurements field on the bottom right of the screen. Select the Rectangle tool (R) then click and release on the screen to establish the first corner of the room. Next go to the top view icon (on the top Views panel), or go to the top Camera menu and select Standard Views and Top. The last items could even be worked out from photographs of the room.įirst open SketchUp and go to the top left File menu to choose New. Otherwise we use SketchUp‘s simple drawing tools to create the footprint of the room, in which case we just need the length and width of the room, the height of the ceiling, and the positions of the doors and windows.

#Kitchen for sketchup pro#

If you have bought the Pro version of SketchUp you can simply import the CAD plans if you have them. To create a kitchen design like the one shown here we would first need the basic room dimensions. In our SketchUp training courses we tailor the material exactly for you so that we cover exactly what you need to create and visualize.

Many of our clients are using SketchUp to design kitchens and bathrooms.