Here is a chair that we designed to be included in our own furniture line. The model allows everyone to easily understand how the combined attributes will be integrate together to form the final product. We needed to design this bed in Sketchup because our client was looking to combine a bed with a footboard and headboard design they had seen in a picture, with one that had cannonball posts. Secondly, once the stringer was designed, we could isolate each part, and dimension the lengths and angles to our hearts content. Designing the table allowed us to fiddle with the spacing and figure out the perfect dimensions. If the angle was to shallow, the people sitting on the end would hit theirs. If the triangular pieces were angled to far inward, the people sitting on the side would hit their legs. First, it allowed us to play with the dimensions and angles of the lower stringer. This is the dining table we are currently working on in the shop. Let us look at some of the ways we have employed Sketchup to help us and our clients. So once the Sketchup image is completed, we already have our parts list made and we have “virtually” encountered all of our construction dilemmas, saving time as we actually build. The program allows you to construct the image out of 3D “parts” exactly the shape and size of the real parts. Not only does this help the client see what is coming, but it also helps us as we build the project. But now (after the preliminary design phase and once the bid has been accepted) we simply email them a fully rotatable, fully detailed 3D image. Prior toĭiscovering the wonders of Google Sketchup we would do a pencil sketch and hoped it was enough to inform the client how amazing the finished piece would be.
People are instinctively good at understanding a verbal or written description but others have a hard time imagining what the table or shelf or bed will look like in three dimensions based on mere words. Not that it is hard to design furniture but that it is very difficult to clearly communicate what a project is going to look like when it is finished.
One of the more difficult parts of a project is the design phase.
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