Thanks, all. Let me think about doing an animation. Interesting idea.
Best,
dh

Version 0.3 now available on the sketchUcation Plugin Store adds leg vs box type to allow planes to be located more usefully for compound miter joints vs legs.

Sounds like everyone had sampled the lawn chemicals which would explain why the jugs were partial. Mind you I've been known to be partial to a jug or two, nothing like a nice pair of jugs on a deck chair.

Understood.

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Wow that's a big image. Thanks for sharing the mesh view. Cool!

@ben ritter said:

plwyood/mdf has warped yet

MDF is very good at NON-warping. But I would not make these elements from MDF, mainly because of its weight, and structural/security concerns. The plywood is also good at not warping, because the layers (the more the better) are fiber-crossed. I mean, for the sizes in the photo, I will use a thick plywood, which in turn may have say 7 or more layers.

Otherwise, these architectural elements can be made from lighter materials (i.e. hard-PVC, or even drywall).

Poking around at the files makes me think it isn't as open source as it might seem. 😒

Peter, the real chair doesn't involve any real specialized bending. It's a bunch of shop-made veneers glued up over bending forms. The narrower seat slats are glued up out of veneers wide enough to make two slats after the glue cures.

Here's the mesh. Nothing very difficult for modeling. the biggest challenge for me is that in reality the laminations have a little spring back when they come off the forms. There's no good way to make an allowance for that spring back in modeling. The front leg/arm rest curve is based on the curve from the bending form and not the actually parts after they were removed from the form. The stretcher that runs behind the backrest is drawn based on the actual stretcher that was fitted to the chair during assembly.

Garden Chair mesh.png

There is an easy way to make the legs if you the time to sort through some lumber. As this is a gentle curve, if you can find a board that has this curve in the grain and then cut it out on the band saw it should be very strong. I was taught this by an Englishman that said the shop he apprenticed in always sorted out lumber with the grain curved to use for curved legs. They especially like boards cut near the buttress of the tree as they were always curved and had lots of uses. Nice table Dave.

@jclements said:

Dave R. ... are you impressed? 😄

Uh. Yes. That is pretty cool. Those are beautiful pieces.

Thanks for sharing that.

Beautiful work.

I seem to recall that someone once did a tutorial on placing text on a wine bottle in SketchUp. I wasn't able to find it, but I believe it went something like this:

Set up your curved surface (like a really large-diameter cylinder), but don't make it a component.
Create the text you want to apply to the curved surface using the 3D text tool. Align it with the curved surface so the text is centered on the diameter of the curve, and at the desired height.
Use Push/Pull to push each letter toward the curve until it intersects.
When all the letters have been extruded in this way, select everything and run an Intersect with Model command. Erase the waste (the extruded letters, that is). You should be left with the outline of the letters on the curved surface. Now you can make the curve a component.

I gave this a quick try and it seemed to work. See the attached SU file. Hope it helps.
Best,
dh

curve test.skp

Dirty way with a volumes

Aline the axes to the direction to pull

Now you select multiple ungroup objects faces and use the move tool by dragimg it along the axes

thus gives a push-pull effect or warping of 3d volumes objects

5 stars!

Very nice. Your version looks great!

Thanks for sharing.

I saw this article in the paper today and thought of your loft.
20 ways people have modified an ikea bunkbed.
Thought it might give you some more ideas.
http://www.essentialkids.com.au/photogallery/family-life/family-home/20-amazing-ways-to-modify-an-ikea-bunk-bed-20140225-33e4m.html

If that's your only reason for using SU7 I would suggest you upgrade.
Jim's DXF importer is available in the plugin store
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=186621#p186621

maybe lashing of rattan parts would be lightweight and resilient enough?