Designing With Google SketchUp

In the past, I typically approached project design by messing with scraps of wood out in my garage. I would hold them together and imagine potential joinery. Then I would start the projects using some basic design ideas and the rest of the design would fall into place as a kind of problem solving exercise.

This time, I stumbled onto Google's free 3D modeling program, Google SketchUp.

After the 5 minute tutorial I was hooked and I managed to spend about 2 days messing with my built-in shelf design. Although, it was frusterating to waste so much time messing with the 3D design, I flushed out quite a few bad ideas and narrowed my design down to something like this for now.