Barn WIP

Mannie

Good tip Solo, thanks. These textures where the free low res ones from arroway, i'm looking at my budget and maybe buy that disc cause good textures will do alot to the model.

Mannie

I'm getting all kinds of weird shapes but nothing like a barrel lol

solo

try this quick tut.

basic barrel.skp

Mannie

Thanks, i'll try that tomorow. Tonight i'm not doing anything on the pc

Mannie

Ok , im halfway thru the tut, now i am stuck at the step where you copy it 24 times around the rim. How does that work do i have to copy it manually 24x and rotate each or is there a fast way to do this ?

Gaieus

Hi Mannie,

That's done with the Rotate tool and the Ctrl button. This way you don't only copy the thng but by typing the number of copies and hitting enter you can make multiple copies.

Rad more srolling down to "Radial arrays" here:
http://download.sketchup.com/sketchuphelp/gsu6_win/Content/D-Modification_Tools/ModTool-Rotate.htm

Mannie

That's what i was trying but what i be getting each time is weird stuff like this

Gaieus

Because you are rotating those pieces around a corner of them. You should select the one you make first then get the centerpoint of the circle and rotate them around the centre of the circle. Right click on the circle line and select Centerpoint to get a guide point in the centre.

Mannie

Well i just don't get it, call me stupid lol

Gaieus

No, I don't want to call you stupid.
Now you have one piece of that barrel nicely aligned along one segment of the circle, right?

select the piece with the Select tool (the piece is highlighted)
Place the Rotate tool onto the centerpoint of the circle
Press Ctrl (to make copies)
click onto one endpoint of the piece to start the rotation
click on the other side of it to finish the rotation (now you have made one copy)
now type 23 (don't click into the box to type just type) and hit enter (no need to type 24 since the original piece is the one to which we aded 23 now)
So just try it again!

Mannie

Thanks, will try that, made a ladder instead just now in the meantime

solo

Csaba, I normally type x23.

Anyway, mannie I hope this helps:

Mannie

Ah, that is easier to follow thanks Solo, gonna give this a try in a few mins
just finnished the ladder

Gaieus

@solo said:

Csaba, I normally type x23...

Yes, exactly. Sorry Mannie for misleading you!

Mannie

Almmost i guess, except for the openings betweeen the planks that is.

Mannie

with straight planks i can do it now

Gaieus

I think an easier way is to use the follow me tool.

Attached is a file. When you open it,

click on the surface of the circle with the Select tool (note that I exploded the circle to get the pieces to be faceded instead of softened but it could have been done by lowering the softening angle as well)
then click on the face of the piece with the Follow me tool
If you still want to assemble it from pieces, now turn one of them into a component, delete the rest and do the radial array with this component (they will obviously fit nicely).

Barrel.skp

Mannie

Thanks that is easier indeed, however i learned both ways now so that is allways a good thing

Gaieus

Yes, exactly, that's the main point.

Mannie

Good morning
One last question about this, i think i calling it done, but i noticed when i did the test render in vue to see how it would look like the materials on the inside became the same as i stick on the outside in vue. Is this normal ? or do i have to do something to it so that won't happen ?

Thanks in advance
M.