Sketchup Thorsen for you guys

you are amazing!!!

I love these drawings. They really help me "see" what needs to be done.

Hi Thomas
I am wondering how hard would it be to do a sketch up drawing of say one of my extreme birdhouses or one of my rustic arbors?

Very cool Thomas. How long have you been working with Sketchup, and how long did it take to make that drawing?

John:
It probably wouldn't be very hard, but it can be time consuming. Complex roof lines would be my achilles heel. I've never tried that yet. If you haven't already, go download and install sketchup and follow a couple of the tutorials. There's a lot of great tutorials on sketchup and plenty of people that know how to use it. You should try it out. It's nice to see what you're envisioning before it's built.

Bill:
I've been using sketchup for about 3 months. I have used other CAD programs in the past, but sketchup is by far the easiest and most economically friendly. It took me about 2-3 hours to complete this drawing, but I was watching the TV and doing other stuff in between so I'm not sure that's a good gauge. The most difficult part about drawing this plan was that not all of the measurements are in the drawing. I had to read through the instructions to find out some of the dimensions, and I had to estimate a few of the peg placements.