In this sketchup video tutorial you will be familiar with some useful sketchup tips to design a modern steel gate in sketchup 2016. To complete the model efficiently, various sketchup plugins are used.

Sketchup is a useful 3d modeling program to draw 2D and 3D curves as well as tapered extrusions.

There are some useful plugins like CurveMaker (http://www.drawmetal.com/curvemaker), TaperMaker (http://www.drawmetal.com/tapermaker), Stock Maker (http://www.drawmetal.com/stockmaker) which are very useful for any type of metal design. These geometric plugins are compatible with sketchup.

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