What software do you guys use to come up with woodworking plans? Looking into a couple different options, but curious to know what's popular here.

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Sketchup. There are some good tutorials from April Wilkerson, Jay Bates, or Mike from Modern Builds on YouTube.

Most of the time I design my own. If I'm not entirely sure what I want, I'll do some Google image searches.

The most fulfilment I've had in woodworking was learning lap joints for doors on built in floor to ceiling cabinets I made for mudroom storage.

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