Hi Mike,

Thanks for the input, I saw on your blog that you are a pro. I just took my first timber framing workshop at Heartwood this summer, its was just awesome!

I am totally new to Sketch up, just downloaded the software. So the rubies are for the joinery? I should go ahead and design without the joinery?

I want to practice using the software, its why I am using it now, the project is just an excuse, the shed (its a cabinet basically, and it could be done with stick frame in a day).

I will take months timber framing it, practicing joinery, and learning the traditional Japanese skills of earthen walls and lime plastering. I am trying to fit in as many different joints as possible just to practice before I forget what I learned last summer.

Serge