WOODWORKING DESIGN SOFTWARE SketchList 3D Version 4 User Guide SketchList Incorporated 2 COPYRIGHT 2015 SKETCHLIST INCORPORATED MILTON, MA Property of SketchList Incorporated. Not to be reproduced without written permission. 3 Table of Contents WOODWORKING DESIGN SOFTWARE .............................................................................. 1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 8 Learning and discovering SketchList 3D ................................................................................................. 9 Creating virtual boards. ....................................................................................................................... 10 In SketchList 3D boards have attributes. ..................................................................................... 11 Create – new board form ............................................................................................................. 11 Five elements of a board ............................................................................................................. 12 Edit or change board characteristics............................................................................................ 13 Locating Boards to Achieve Your Design ............................................................................................. 15 Tools for locating or moving boards in an assembly. ...................................................................... 17 Sliders ........................................................................................................................................... 17 Blue dots ...................................................................................................................................... 18 Triplets ......................................................................................................................................... 19 Triplet tool – Spreadsheet............................................................................................................ 21 Clone and space ........................................................................................................................... 22 Resizing Boards .................................................................................................................................... 25 Red Dots ........................................................................................................................................... 25 Triplets ............................................................................................................................................. 26 Sliders ............................................................................................................................................... 27 Spreadsheet ..................................................................................................................................... 27 Lesson: Working at board detail level .................................................................................................. 28 Base concept 1 – Level of hierarchy ................................................................................................ 29 Basic concept 2 – Surfaces and edges.............................................................................................. 29 Using the shaping tool. .................................................................................................................... 30 There are tools for various types of shaping the tasks. ................................................................ 31 Holes in Boards ................................................................................................................................ 33 Creating a hole. ............................................................................................................................ 34 Editing a hole. .............................................................................................................................. 35 Adding contours to board edges ...................................................................................................... 36 Property of SketchList Incorporated. Not to be reproduced without written permission. 4 Round over ................................................................................................................................... 36 Cove ............................................................................................................................................. 36 Chamfer ........................................................................................................................................ 36 V groove ....................................................................................................................................... 36 Bull nose ....................................................................................................................................... 36 Roman .......................................................................................................................................... 36 Joinery .............................................................................................................................................. 42 Tenon ....................................................................................................................................... 42 Tongue and Groove .................................................................................................................. 42 Miter ........................................................................................................................................ 42 Dado ......................................................................................................................................... 42 Rabbet ...................................................................................................................................... 42 These videos show how to apply board details. .......................................................................... 45 The use of containers in SketchList 3D ................................................................................................ 46 Assemblies may be saved as standards. .......................................................................................... 47 Doors, drawers, hardware are essentially sub-assemblies. ............................................................. 47 The containers in SketchList 3-D exist as a hierarchy. ................................................................. 48 Clone ................................................................................................................................................ 50 Clone and space. .......................................................................................................................... 50 Clone and mirror. ......................................................................................................................... 51 Rotate ........................................................................................................................................... 51 Show ................................................................................................................................................. 52 Show unit box .............................................................................................................................. 53 Wireframe .................................................................................................................................... 53 Show title and show hints ............................................................................................................ 53 Stretching or shrinking an assembly. ............................................................................................... 53 Batch move ...................................................................................................................................... 54 Using SketchList 3D to create new materials. ...................................................................................... 56 Insert a board and select a material. ............................................................................................... 56 Existing materials............................................................................................................................. 57 Create a new material ...................................................................................................................... 58 Property of SketchList Incorporated. Not to be reproduced without written permission. 5 Import your own image to use as a texture..................................................................................... 59 Entering material in the stock database. ......................................................................................... 59 Material name .............................................................................................................................. 60 Grain direction ............................................................................................................................. 60 Optimizing 1 ...............................................................................................................................