I’m in the middle of creating plans for another piece of furniture that has a number of pocket hole joints. I thought it might be helpful for some of my woodworking readers who also like to use SketchUp to put together a really quick tutorial on putting 3D renderings of pocket holes into your models. This comes in handy where you have joints where you’re using pocket holes on multiple sides and you want to drill your holes so that the screws don’t hit each other.
I threw this together pretty quickly while working on my plan so please accept my apologies if I ramble a little. In this tutorial, I’m using a “1x” piece of wood (remember that’s nominal size and the actual size is 3/4″ thick).
I’m grateful for the component that Tim D. added to the SketchUp 3D Warehouse. This is one of many sizes that he created and here’s the 3/4″ pocket hole:
You can link back to it in the warehouse and see his other components there.