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    [TUTORIAL] Making holes through pipe (cylinder)

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    • MALAISEM Offline
      MALAISE
      last edited by

      Hay, basic.woodwork

      Could you explain how do you use the Push-Pull tool to create that growing****cylinders in the tuto. I'm quite interested in your know-how, it could open new ways for animations...

      Thanks very much for attention. 👍

      MALAISE 😉

      La Connaissance n'a de valeur que partagée

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      • simon le bonS Offline
        simon le bon
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        Hi Mike,
        My question is not on the making holes tut itself but rather on how you made:

        • to have those text explanations written on the bottom independantly from the animations
        • to have only one figure, evoluting from scene to scene

        ??? " le résultat est vraiment pas mal!!!"

        Simon.

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          basic.woodworks
          last edited by

          @simon le bon said:

          Hi Mike,
          My question is not on the making holes tut itself but rather on how you made:

          • to have those text explanations written on the bottom independantly from the animations
          • to have only one figure, evoluting from scene to scene

          ??? " le résultat est vraiment pas mal!!!"

          Simon.

          Hey Simon,

          If you have downloaded the file, dissect and analyze it. Look at each scene and see what layers are used to crate it. Also, toggle the section planes on and off.

          Thanks for the compliment.

          Mike RL

          PS for more discussion on this, you can contact me directly if you wish.
          basic.woodworks on Skype

          "The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one." (Elbert Hubbard)

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          • simon le bonS Offline
            simon le bon
            last edited by

            Hi Mike,
            It's too late for tonight, and i'm living early in the morning for 15 days without web access 😞

            I have understood your clever layer use, but i'm still not understanding the animation of your just one evolutive figure.. be back in 15

            Regards simon.

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              basic.woodworks
              last edited by

              @malaise said:

              Hay, basic.woodwork

              Could you explain how do you use the Push-Pull tool to create that growing****cylinders in the tuto. I'm quite interested in your know-how, it could open new ways for animations...

              Thanks very much for attention. 👍

              MALAISE 😉

              If you dissect the model, check out the layers, components and turn on the section planes(there should be a button on the top toolbar for that purpose), you should be able to figure it out. By toggling section planes on and off between scenes it gives the illusion of the"growing" pipes.

              Hope this helps you

              Mike RL

              "The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one." (Elbert Hubbard)

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                outersketcher
                last edited by

                From a newbie who is desperately watching every tutorial he can get, I thank you and commend you for a beautifully executed and well thought out tutorial. You helped me..

                David

                "I mostly enjoy not being dead.." -Grandpa

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                  basic.woodworks
                  last edited by

                  @outersketcher said:

                  From a newbie who is desperately watching every tutorial he can get, I thank you and commend you for a beautifully executed and well thought out tutorial. You helped me..

                  David

                  Wow! Thank David. I never thought this little tut would attract any attention. It really nice to help someone and get a pat on the back from so many others. I'm really glad this helped you.

                  Have a great day.

                  Mike RL

                  "The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one." (Elbert Hubbard)

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                  • M Offline
                    Maverick83
                    last edited by

                    Hi basic.woodworks
                    Nice tut but why have you turned the main cylinder into a group if you have to explode it later on?

                    Bye bye - Ciao

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                      basic.woodworks
                      last edited by

                      in order to use "section plane", I had to make it a group. but later on, I need to see the whole in it. Had I altered the main tube, it would have wholes in it at the beginning of the tut, thus the 2 similar pipes.

                      I hope this answers your question.

                      Regards

                      Mike RL

                      "The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one." (Elbert Hubbard)

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                      • R Offline
                        RegH
                        last edited by

                        Add me to your list of admirers- a very neat and well thought-out tutorial.
                        Just a little feedback:
                        A- On my little LCD monitor (1024 x 768 display)the explanatory text is chopped off at the right end on the longer lines.

                        B- I think the title could be "Making holes through a solid cylinder". I would like to see you make the cylinder a hollow tube, and make the "cross perforations" appear to be as if a hollow pipe had holes drilled through the sides.

                        Of course, I may be missing something, maybe my settings?

                        Again- thanks for the nice work 👍

                        Edit: Checked it on my laptop (1440 x 900) and got better display, although text still seems to be biased toward right side of screen. Hope I don't seem to picky, just feedback. 😄

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                          basic.woodworks
                          last edited by

                          The principle of a hollow tube is the exact same. I'm assuming that you would like to have a visible wall thickness?!?

                          When you draw you're pipe, you need to know the i.d. or o.d of it and wall thickness. so draw a circle of the diameter you know and use the offset tool in which ever direction and type in the thickness measurement, hit enter and simply delete the inner face (inside the pipe outline) then use the push/pull tool or create a path for the follow me tool with the line and arc tools. The rest is all the same.

                          Mike RL

                          "The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one." (Elbert Hubbard)

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                            MT3d
                            last edited by

                            great tutorial.. thanx

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                            • GaieusG Offline
                              Gaieus
                              last edited by

                              Hi Rich,

                              Those tabs are for the step-by-step scenes in the tutorial. When you click on the next tab, you should be "taken" to the next scene that explains the next step.

                              As for your display problem, try this: Go to Window (Sketchup on Mac) > Preferences > OpenGL settings and try to fiddle aound the different checkboxes.

                              Most probably there is an issue with your video card/driver (if it's a laptop, maybe you have an integrated chipset on it which is not good news).

                              Disabling Hardware acceleration may help you but then SU will be slower. Try to update your video driver (or get a edicatd video card).

                              Gai...

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                              • GaieusG Offline
                                Gaieus
                                last edited by

                                There should be only screen text on the first page/scene.

                                Gai...

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