Success with Sketch Up
Adult | Available
SketchUp is a versatile 3D design program that can help you plan projects in a wide variety of crafts—woodworking, ceramics, glass, jewelry, blacksmithing, and more. But like any robust computer program, SketchUp comes with a learning curve. This class will help you flatten that curve by mastering the four essential good practices you need to follow to make the software behave.
Students should bring their own laptop computer with a recent version of SketchUp Pro installed. Please do not bring the version called SketchUp Go, which only runs on an iPad.
- This class is held in the Modern Craft Studio, above the Ceramic Studio.
The door to enter is from the Forge driveway.
Parking is available up the hill at the Forge, the Ceramic Studio, and in the main parking lot.
There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.
Members will have the $4 fee deducted from the tuition.
There will be a 45 minute lunch break.
Please note that classes at Brookfield Craft Center must meet a minimum of 2 registrations for the class to run. Students will be notified within a week's notice whether their class will be held. If the class is cancelled due to low enrollment, students may request to be transferred to another class or be refunded in full.
David Heim
David Heim is a former member of the board of directors of the American Association of Woodturners. He has been turning for 20 years and teaches regularly at the Brookfield Craft Center and other schools across Connecticut.
David is the author of “Saws, Planes, and Scorps: Exceptional Woodworking Tools and Their Makers,” which The New York Times listed as a design book that's easy on the eyes. He is also the author of SketchUp Success for Woodworkers (Cedar Lane Press). He has been teaching students nationwide how to use the program for more than 15 years. He has also created more than 700 SketchUp models that can be downloaded from SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse database.