sketchucation logo sketchucation
    • Login
    Oops, your profile's looking a bit empty! To help us tailor your experience, please fill in key details like your SketchUp version, skill level, operating system, and more. Update and save your info on your profile page today!
    🫛 Lightbeans Update | Metallic and Roughness auto-applied in SketchUp 2025+ Download

    Scrumpled Geometry

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Newbie Forum
    sketchup
    2 Posts 2 Posters 296 Views 2 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • L Offline
      lfox001
      last edited by

      Hello everyone,
      I'm an art student studying at the Slade in London. I've been using sketchup for a while now, to make detailed sketches and mock-ups for large sculptural things. I'm interested in su in its own right and recently had access to use a rapid processing machine. From a cube, I radically pulled a part and distorted its geometry so it forms a crystal like structure, then inverted itself. Obviously the inside geometry of this shape is now horribly complex and unusable to make a stl file as it needs to be hollow on the inside. It does look like a ball of paper. I was hoping to find out whether there is a way of forming a skin or shell around it, like a latex cast, so i can just copy the outside faces, thus making it hollow. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers!

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • J Offline
        Jim
        last edited by

        Welcome,

        Here are 2 plugins that can export a stl file:

        Didier Bur has su2stl, and cadspan has another sketchup 2 stl exporter.

        Hi

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • 1 / 1
        • First post
          Last post
        Buy SketchPlus
        Buy SUbD
        Buy WrapR
        Buy eBook
        Buy Modelur
        Buy Vertex Tools
        Buy SketchCuisine
        Buy FormFonts

        Advertisement