Peter, I prefer doing my clay renders using the #7 preset to keep the shadows from blocking up. the few times I tried to render with the AO preset I got much denser shadows that I wanted.

Here's the most recent version of the built-ins. Quite reduced from the original version but that's alright.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8094/8504207294_ed87deaa4a_z.jpg

Dave,
Gotta love those nits. Good catches.
Best,
dh

Thanks Dave! Trying to push the envelope each time. I see so much beautiful work out there showing me what's possible...I still have along way to go.

Great colors... That style pops with the classic piece.

Ah, yes. I can see how that would cause that illusion. Chalk it up to smart phone camera technology. 😄

All I did was select the section cut , right click and click hide then go to the previous scenes select the section cut right click and hide, updating each scene.scenes and section cuts.skp

If you unhide the section cuts you can see them. To show them in all scenes you have to unhide and update each scene again.

Thanks for the suggestions for the move by fence, but when I select the end by fence and extend the tube, the taper does not change left to right. Not sure it the taper changes in the other plane. I was hoping to easily extend the tube to have the taper grow or shrink on the ends, this would need to be in 2 planes. I will look at the plug in later.
Thanks
Jeff

Test.skp

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=50229&p=452870#p452870

Looks pretty good.

You might want to scale that oak texture down a bit. 😉

Nice style. Clean look

Nice clock Dave,I love quarter sawn oak.

This site http://www.schoolfurniture.uk.com/index.htm contains lots of useful info for UK school furniture, dimensions etc... browse through it, I'm sure it'll have lots of good pointers...

Now that's a secretary!

Thank you, sir.
Yes, the One King's Lane site does have some interesting stuff. Decent photos, too, for those who want to try to model some of the furniture.

As for my model, I couldn't decide how to handle that one shelf; I thought a rounded-over edge would look odd, so I left it square. But I may change my mind again. Truth be told, once I got the cutouts in the sides looking right and did the rounded-corner molding, the rest of the piece wasn't that interesting. A shelf is a shelf is a shelf; not much one can do with that.
Best,
dh

Maybe you know this famous French brand Vilac (site is also exist in English 😉
no train but see section small wooden cars

Nice gnome. 😄

Cotty, I just don't want to get out of practice drawing. 😉 Some day I'll figure this out.

@tig said:

For general stl tools look here http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/download/plugins.html

This link is to Trimble's own free stl exporter launched last October...
https://github.com/SketchUp/sketchup-stl
and here's other stuff about it http://www.mastersketchup.com/installing-the-sketchup-stl-exporter-plugin/

Hi!

Thank you!

Dave
I have a compass plane but i find them best if the the curve is only in one plane. The surfboard is always 2 curves so a compass plane would not work. Holding a plane at an angle with only a small area in contact with the board works well, just different from all my planing trying to make a surface flat.

@jpalm32 said:

Those legs look really fragile. Are they sturdy?
Is there a way of adding support w/o hurting the look?

Its not that bad to be honest but I don't know of a way to add any support on this project.

Very impressive.