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SketchUp is the ideal tool to plan a kitchen, whether you are a cabinetmaker, an interior designer, a contractor or a do-it-yourselfer. With a 3D model you can see the project from every angle and solve the most common problems (as well as prevent the most common arguments) whether your new kitchen is completely custom or a simple refreshening.
Like my other SketchUp books, “Building Blocks of SketchUp” and “Woodworker’s Guide to SketchUp”, “SketchUp For Kitchen Design” is in enhanced Adobe PDF format with 49 videos embedded in the 195 pages of text. This format lets you work in SketchUp in one window while you learn from the book in another window. Because it is digital finding the information you need is simple and fast through the linked table of contents, bookmarks, page thumbnails or through a search. The videos and text work together to show you how to work efficiently, effectively and confidently.
This unique publication is designed to walk you through the same process professional designers use while teaching you how to use the SketchUp program. If you’re brand new to 3D modeling the first two chapters cover the basics of installing and setting up the software and modeling with the essential tools of SketchUp. Chapter 3 takes those basic skills and applies them to modeling an empty room. Later chapters show you how to fill that room with the cabinets, counters and appliances that match your vision. I show you how to make your own cabinet models and how to make use of the abundance of models available in SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse. If your plan is to purchase manufactured cabinets you’ll learn how to find models on line, import them into your model and painlessly rearrange them. You can also find models of appliances, fixtures and accessories.
Communication is half the battle in designing a kitchen, and SketchUp provides several methods to generate standard construction drawings and realistic renderings from one model. It is the ultimate design, planning, problem-solving and selling tool and my methods will get you up to speed quickly. If you’ve struggled with SketchUp before, you’ll find the answers to the most common issues SketchUp users face. If you have experience with SketchUp, you’ll learn tricks and techniques that will speed your workflow. I show you step by step with clear instructions, plenty of screen capture images and a short video every few pages.
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Jeff Branch also reviewed this book, Click Here to read an excerpt with a link to the full review.
“SketchUp For Kitchen Design” is available now in PDF format, and you need to use Adobe Acrobat Reader to enable the embedded video content to play on your PC or Mac. If you download the book to your iPad, you will need an additional app to enable the videos to play. Details on iPad use here.
PLEASE NOTE: THERE IS AN ISSUE WITH VIDEO PLAYBACK IN MY PDF SKETCHUP BOOKS, DUE TO ADOBE’S “END OF LIFE” FOR FLASH.
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I received the disc but it didn’t install the program to design a kitchen, a few years back I downloaded the program it worked fine but I changed computers and lost it so this is the second time that i purchased the program. Please tell me what I need to do. Thanks
Hi Ronald,
My books are about using SketchUp, they do not include the SketchUp program.
You can download SketchUp Make 17, the last available free version of the program at:
https://www.sketchup.com/download/all
You will have to create a free Trimble account in order to download. If you have any further questions, click my signature below to send me an email.
—Bob Lang
Thanks for your reply, I didn’t make myself clear (sorry about that) I have the program but I haven’t figured out how to access the book on Kitchen Design. I have done it in the past, so that is what I am trying to do.
These books are large PDF files. You need to download and install Adobe Acrobat Reader to open the file and view the videos. You can do that here:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat/pdf-reader.html
There are other programs that will open PDF files and the text and static images can be read.
BUT the video content will not work if you use one of those.
Bob
Hello Bob,
I’ve been studying your book, The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker. It’s excellent! I was getting close to starting my project when I learned of your Sketchup For Kitchen Design, which raised two questions:
1. Do you consider your PDF a digital version of your book or a separate resource that’s worth investing in?
2. I work on both an iMac desktop and an iPad (depends on whether a family member is using one or the other device); if I purchase the PDF, can I use that one purchase on both of my devices or do I need to buy one for each device?
Thanks,
Dan
Hi Dan,
Thanks for the kind words about “The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker”. “SketchUp for Kitchen Design” is a separate and quite different book. It covers using SketchUp to design the room and make use of models of complete cabinets to plan an entire kitchen project as well as how to render it to give you or your client an accurate depiction of what the completed room will look like. In the book I make use of models from cabinet manufacturers and leverage the project management tools and libraries in SketchUp. If you plan on building your own cabinets based on the examples in “The Complete Kitchen Cabinetmaker” you can build your own library of cabinets. That’s easier than it sounds because you can model a basic base and wall cabinet with all of its parts then modify copies of those basic models.
Hope this helps,
Bob Lang
Oops, forgot to answer question 2. My PDF books are free of restrictions so you can save it to as many devices as you want.
I ordered the kitchen books bundle in the afternoon 12/20/21. I received it today in the mail (12/23/21) in Las Vegas, NV. I sent Bob an email asking to receive the download link for “SketchUp for Kitchen Design” on the 20th and received the emailed link the next morning. I was very skeptical about how well the PDF with imbedded video instruction would work without the flash support. I changed the preference settings that he instructs you to on his web site first and I am very happy to inform any who is on the fence about purchasing this training series; due to the comments posted saying they couldn’t get it to play properly. It works exactly how designed, except for one issue and that is you can’t stop the video in the middle and start it from that position. You can cancel and start at the beginning again though. It never hurts to receive reinforcement instruction, when mastering something new. I highly recommend the product and it was awesome to purchase something that has real customer service.
Todd Alverson
Thanks for the kind words. I’m working on a solution that will be more user friendly, but I am glad to hear it works for you.