{"id":548,"date":"2012-01-18T14:07:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idleengineers.com\/?p=548"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:07:41","slug":"workbench-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/blog\/workbench-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Workbench 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started drafting up a design for a new workbench for my garage this evening. I didn&#8217;t want to half-ass it with a hand drawing and SWAG measurements, so I downloaded <a href=\"http:\/\/sketchup.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google SketchUp<\/a>. After a couple hours, I now have a 3D model of my new bench.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idleengineers.com\/archive\/2012\/01\/18\/workbench-1-0\/workbench\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-549\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-549 alignright\" title=\"Workbench\" src=\"http:\/\/www.idleengineers.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Workbench-1024x560.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a>While SketchUp is no Autodesk Inventor, it is pretty awesome for being free!<\/p>\n<p>The goals of this part of my workspace are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large open workspace<\/li>\n<li>VERY sturdy<\/li>\n<li>Replaceable top surface (If I drill and cut up the top, I&#8217;d like to be able to replace it for cheap)<\/li>\n<li>Room for storage (the lower beams will have a sheet of wood laid over and cabinet walls build around the outside, in the future)<\/li>\n<li>Be standalone from the rest of my workspace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last bullet is critical, as I don&#8217;t have the money to build the entire workspace, but need an area now. Future expansions will include a built-in location for my radial arm saw, more storage, a fold down work surface, and peg boards for tools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I plan to head to The Home Depot soon and get supplies for this project, so stay tuned for the construction phase!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started drafting up a design for a new workbench for my garage this evening. I didn&#8217;t want to half-ass it with a hand drawing and SWAG measurements, so I downloaded Google SketchUp. After a couple hours, I now have a 3D model of my new bench. While SketchUp is no Autodesk Inventor, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idleengineers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}