Comments on: Google Releases SketchUp 8 http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/google-releases-sketchup-8 Woodworking advice, woodworking plans, woodworking projects and woodworking blogs Fri, 24 May 2013 02:04:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jim Minkshttp://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/google-releases-sketchup-8/comment-page-1#comment-13872 Jim Minks Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:52:22 +0000 http://blogs.popularwoodworking.com/editorsblog/Google+Releases+SketchUp+8.aspx#comment-13872 I downloaded version 8 of Sketchup today and compared it to version 7 which I have been using. I have only used the free version of both and my comments are based on the free versions only. My initial observation is that there is not a significant improvement in version 8 for woodworking models. There is improvement in modeling mortise and tenons in version 8 however. For example first create components of leg and rail. Edit the rail to add the tenon. Then edit the leg and use the new hidden line view to locate and create a rectangle on the leg component followed by using the push/pull tool to complete the mortise.

Jim Minks

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