Timber Frames in Sketchup, free plugin

[Darren Wright]

Anyone else try out the Timber Frame extension in Sketchup? I installed it last night and messed around a bit with it. It has options to generate shop drawings for each of the components, but looks like you have to do the dimensioning yourself before printing. Nice plugin though!


The extension page to download, use the extension manager to install once you have it downloaded.

https://extensions.sketchup.com/extension/80b01c12-c730-40cb-9575-e36a79bd2847/timber-framing-extensions

I'd download the example and timber files also, from here: https://www.tenon.technology/sketchup-resources

Tutorial on using it.

Another good one, his quality of video and sound improve on part 2:

There is a book also, kind of on the $ side, but I ordered it as it seemed to get good reviews. All profits are going to the Timber Frame guild.

Timber Frame Design Using SketchUp

www.tfguild.org

 

[Dave Richards]

That was a neat extension. Unfortunately I think the author has moved on to other things and it's not being updated. It doesn't fit with my preferences for modeling but some folks find it works quite well for them.

 

[Darren Wright]

Yeah, didn’t look like it’s been updated past 2017, but considering I have a sawmill and I’m looking to do some timber framing, it hopefully will have some benefit to me.