For some unknown reason, I've decided on one last attempt to learn how to use SketchUp. All my previous attempts can best be described as marvelous failures. They even resulted in me cancelling at least one WW magazine subscription when the magazine seemed in my mind to switch primarily to SketchUp plans.
Long story short, my daughter and I are going to build a small trebuchet for a school project. I've found a rather simple SketchUp plan that seems to be an easy build, but I can't seem to figure out how to break the plan down into components to determine how to build. Were I to build from just looking at the diagram, we'd be halfway done. I find this very frustrating.
So, ultimately, my question is how does everybody use sketchup to find dimensions of the components and then create a process to build from?
thanks,
John