Advanced SketchUp: Working with Curves
with Dave Richards
FULL COURSE CONTENT WILL BE AVAILABLE LATE-MAY 2026
Take your SketchUp skills to the next level through two iconic woodworking projects, with Dave Richards as your guide.
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Course Overview
Starting with a Shaker candlestand, you'll progress to the elegant challenges of a tilt-top tea table — tackling turned posts, shaped legs, dovetail joinery, and an elegantly shaped top. As a bonus, Dave also shows how to model an optional pie-crust top, opening the door to some of the most decorative edge work in the furniture maker's repertoire. By the end of the course you won't just know how to model these specific pieces — you'll have a deep, transferable toolkit for handling curves and complex joinery in any woodworking project.
What You'll Learn:
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Dave Richards has been a SketchUp user and teacher for more than 15 years. He is an authorized SketchUp trainer and uses the drawing program for a wide variety of projects, from tiny medical devices to architectural projects. His primary use is drawing woodworking projects and plans for himself as well as for a number of professional woodworkers and cabinetmakers. He also draws project plans for Fine Woodworking and is a contributor to the blog "Design. Click. Build". He is the author of the SketchUp Guide for Woodworkers (The Taunton Press). Dave is a retired Biomedical Equipment Technician and Instructor of Anesthesiology in the Mayo College of Medicine. He lives in Rochester, MN, with his wife, son, and one dog.
