I’m a furniture maker and I have been using SketchUp to make my plans since about the time that Google bought them in the first place (version 3?) but I am entirely self taught and so never learned (now obviously) basic stuff Appvalley
I am trying to use online lessons to get better, but it’s obvious that I have a big gap in my knowledge because my drawings always go off the rails about 4 or 5 steps in. Bad layer management is the obvious culprit, with bits of the drawing ending up scattered across multiple layers.
Is there a good resource to learn about these basic procedures? Text lessons are infinitely better than videos, especially when amateurs are making them.
It might be an idea to upload a typical file of yours here so that we can see where you might be going wrong. It might be a bit embarrassing but you could learn a lot.
One typical rookie error is not to get in the habit early doors of grouping geometry. You need to get in the habit of thinking of your model as a set of discrete items each of which has its own group. That makes sure the inherent “stickiness” of loose geometry doesn’t cause untold problems. Once you have made your Groups or Components, allocate them to a tag that is not Untagged. When you’re done, there should normally be nothing showing up in the Untagged category.
No - I wouldn’t normally leave any ungrouped geometry in a model. Draw something assigned to default Layer0 or Untagged, then make component. Rarely (in my case) make group instead of component.