The $80 course will consist of videos, quizzes and interactive content, and will be available from Apr 13th to Jun 15th 2016. With that, Popular Woodworking University, the educational arm of the magazine, has developed an online course in conjunction with Joe Zeh from Swamp Road Wood Works in Massachusetts, to help woodworking hobbyists make the most of SketchUp.

SketchUp is ideally suited for woodworkers because the 3-D model produces the documentation set we know as shop drawings and cut lists. The original developers of SketchUp likely did not have woodworking on their target market list, but SketchUp could not be better suited for woodworking if it had been the only target on their list and the developers were all woodworkers. And as Popular Woodworking Magazine puts it: Used by many in the engineering, construction and product design industries, to name a few, SketchUp is free for non-commercial use (a pro version is available for about $500). SketchUp is a 3-D modeling software application from Trimble, which acquired the software from Google in 2012.

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