The model was not only useful for them, but also for me, as it generated the cutlist and I could always go back to design decisions I had made earlier for which I couldn’t remember all of the details when I came to construct. I didn’t have to have endless pages of drafting diagrams showing details ( or more likely, little bits of paper with sketches on them). If I wanted to check a dimension I could just use the tape measure feature and measure the model.

As an exercise in using Sketchup as the final design, I did find that I made some minor changes along the way, mostly minor construction details, but I’m not sure that it would have made a difference if I had put those details in Sketchup. There are also some things which I think would be tedious in Sketchup without some more basic woodworking toolkits available ( such as an easy way of adding joint details, such as dovetails or the use of biscuits ).

All in all, I would definitely use Sketchup again in such a process.