I’ve picked up a copy of 2017 to have a play and see if I want to make a purchase.
I’ll be honest here and say that I’ve really struggled with the interface.
However… I’ve managed to create a simple cabinet with doors for my home woodworking.
I expected to be able to produce a materials listing detailing each part with sizes, thickness etc. As far as I’ve read that doesn’t seem to be possible.
I downloaded the Cutlist extension but that’s telling me that I’ve designed it in the wrong way.
So… as a final throw of the dice I thought that I could highlight each item and get the dimensions from that… but I can’t see where the dimensions are stored or how to access them.
Share the SketchUp file with us. That’ll make it easier to see what you’ve done and what you need to do differently.
For the cutlist to yield useful information for your door model, each part of the door needs to be a component or group. I would use components. The bottom and top rails would be copies of the same component as would the two stiles. The panel would be yet another component.
You might spend some time looking at learn.sketchup.com and going through the tutorials, too.
Here’s a thing I did a few years ago about using CutList 4.1 to create a cutlist from your model.
Hi Jeremy as a fairly new to SU user and am now beginning to produce reasonable results, I have a few words of advice for you;
1 Don’t just jump in and expect it to work like other programs.
2. Get some help by following along with the SU tutorials at https://learn.sketchup.com
3. Practice with very basic shapes and build up the skills by repetition
4. Follow along with Aaron’s demos in the Square One and Skill Builder - he releases at least one per week - the best of them can be found here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC50lv4EYY1N1_-B495meX8w
All the best.
PS and of course follow the advice of the Gurus/sages here - as you can see DaveR got back to you whilst I was replying to you.
Which Cutlist extension are you using? CutList 4.1 works fine to report the components you have in the model. You can see some of them have tildes which indicate approximate dimensions.
That’s something you’ll probably want to deal with.
SketchUp is not a solid modeler. As such faces have insides and outsides. By default the inside faces are blue and the outside faces are white. When you have a 3D object it should only have white front faces showing. The blue back faces should be on the inside of the object.
This. No matter what tool you use, if you just try to hit the number by moving the cursor, it’s unlikely you’ll be right on. You should be typing in exact dimensions or using existing, correctly located components or guidelines as references if you aren’t typing the dimensions.
