# Jared Geddes | Sell Your Woodworking CAD/Drawings Designs Online

- Show: [Being an Engineer](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer)
- Published: 2022-04-15
- Length: 34m
- Episode: 15
- Page: https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-04-15-jared-geddes-sell-your-woodworking-cad-drawings-designs-online
- Listen: https://teampipeline.us/Jared-Geddes-sell-your-designs-online/

## Summary

Jared Geddes, a Boeing design engineering lead and creator of The Evening Woodworker, explains how he monetizes his woodworking hobby by selling digital CAD models and drawings. He details his automated e-commerce setup using Wix and PayPal, which delivers SketchUp files and 2D engineering drawings directly to customers. Geddes also discusses his approach to learning woodworking through project-based skill acquisition and his experiences with humanitarian engineering through Engineers Without Borders.

## Chapters

- [0:45](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-04-15-jared-geddes-sell-your-woodworking-cad-drawings-designs-online#t=45) Introduction: Jared Geddes and The Evening Woodworker
- [2:19](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-04-15-jared-geddes-sell-your-woodworking-cad-drawings-designs-online#t=139) Advice for Engineers Starting in Woodworking
- [5:27](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-04-15-jared-geddes-sell-your-woodworking-cad-drawings-designs-online#t=327) Family Traditions and Learning to Make Gifts
- [14:05](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-04-15-jared-geddes-sell-your-woodworking-cad-drawings-designs-online#t=845) Design for Manufacturing and Boeing Work
- [21:30](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-04-15-jared-geddes-sell-your-woodworking-cad-drawings-designs-online#t=1290) Monetizing Plans via Wix and PayPal
- [29:46](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/podcast/being-an-engineer/2022-04-15-jared-geddes-sell-your-woodworking-cad-drawings-designs-online#t=1786) Humanitarian Engineering and Engineers Without Borders

## Topics

- [Direct-to-consumer & e-commerce](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/direct-to-consumer)
- [Industrial & consumer product design](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/industrial-design)
- [Design for manufacturing & NPI](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/design-for-manufacturing)
- [Careers & education](https://hardwarepodcasts.com/topic/engineering-careers-and-education)

## Most relevant to

early-stage companies

## Mentioned

- Boeing (company)
- The Evening Woodworker (product)
- Wix (tool)
- PayPal (tool)
- SketchUp (tool)
- SolidWorks (tool)
- Catia (tool)
- Fusion 360 (tool)
- Rhino (tool)
- Engineers Without Borders (other)
- Pipeline Design & Engineering (company)

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