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Is Your Future Sketchy?

TheTimberTailor, member | December 31st, 20125 comments

A New Year's resolution to learn how to use SketchUp for tackling project plans and design might be just the motivation needed to make your future a little less sketchy.

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Steps in the Right Direction: Use SketchUp's Tools for Stairbuilding Plans

TheTimberTailor, member | March 2nd, 2011

The staircase model created in the Stairmathter blog post gets filled in with more details and components to calculate meaningful dimensions for code compliance and finish features

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Stairmathter: Use SketchUp to Master the Math for Stairbuilding

TheTimberTailor, member | February 25th, 201113 comments

Create a digital layout using jobsite dimensions and let SketchUp do the math to calculate cutting dimensions and angles for stair stringers accounting for finish floor thicknesses and other pertinent information.

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Covered Deck

Greg_Holmes, member | February 25th, 20092 comments

I built this deck on our house during the summer of 2008. I had help from family and friends, but the bulk of the work was done on my own. The framing for the deck is pressuretreated...

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Mortise and Tenon, custom turned and carved mahogany deck railing (no fasteners used)

rbdesign, member | January 20th, 2009

This railing was built in the fall of 2005 to replace a rotted railing on an existing fir deck. The client was planning on doing an ipe or maranti deck in the near future but needed to replace the...

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