Tedium but worthwhile tedium?

Dave R

Nothing too special about the model but it was very tedious to make. It's all SketchUp and a bit of editing in Paint.NET.

pbacot

Dave,

If you have too much time on your hands, maybe we can work out a deal.

It looks perfect.

Peter

Dave R

Peter, Thank you.
I am pleased with how they turned out although those and a couple of other scales are only small parts of a larger project. Thought about some easier ways to make the scales but didn't like how they were working out. These should work perfectly, though.

Here's a sample of the overall project.

By the way, I never seem to be able to turn down SketchUp work. If you've got something, let me know.

Thanks again.

Dave

JuanV.Soler

i woud not have called this thread Tedium,
is quite interesting

Thanks Dave R

boofredlay

Nice Dave

Dave R

Thank you.

pbacot

This is looking interesting.

that first image made me think. how about architect's and engineering scales that can be manipulated and used in SU! And then we can do some calcs on working models of slide rules etc.

Dave R

@pbacot said:

This is looking interesting.

that first image made me think. how about architect's and engineering scales that can be manipulated and used in SU! And then we can do some calcs on working models of slide rules etc.

I bet one of the Ruby gurus could write a plugin to animate the slide rule, accept inputs and display the results via the scales. We'd have SketchUp: The calculator.