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Drafting & Design for Woodworkers

This exciting new book details all the information and techniques you need to create and plan your own designs whether you want to work on paper or on your computer. Extensive tutorials on drawing with pencil and paper, using CAD, and the new free 3D modeling program from Google, SketchUp. 

Readers will also learn important joinery and design information-sizing joints and getting the proportions right, standard sizes for common furniture forms, making cut lists, estimating material and more.

This practical guide will enable you to turn your ideas into buildable projects. 

Hardcover with spiral binding, 176 pages

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The concepts of drawing on paper with multiple views are the foundation to creating working drawings that save you time and frustration in the shop. 

 

Step by step instructions teach you how to efficiently create elevation, plan and section views, as well as three-dimensional views.

 

 

Take your drawings to a new level by applying the principles of drawing and planning on paper to using computer aided drafting (CAD). Drafting & Design for woodworkers shows you how to make the most of this software, from inexpensive programs to AutoCADLT

This is the first published book written from a woodworker's perspective on using the free 3D modeling program everyone is talking about-SketchUp. Learn the secrets of quickly making a model of each part of your project on your computer, and advanced techniques like applying complex moldings with a few clicks of the mouse.

Planning projects is an exercise in problem solving, and this book provides answers from deciding what joint to use (and what size to make it) to sizing furniture to fit your room and your needs.

Proportions and shapes are tools for the designer, and using them effectively is a skill. Good design isn't a matter of being gifted, it's a matter of learning what functions well and looks attractive. This practical information can be found in Drafting & Design for Woodworkers. 

Drafting & Design for Woodworkers  is now available. Order your signed, first edition copy directly from the author  Now in Stock and Ready to Ship

 

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