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    • GaieusG Offline
      Gaieus
      last edited by

      Well, sometimes they DO load a bit harder (probably this depends on connection speed as well as server side bandwidth limitations) but I do like them for sure.

      Maybe sometimes, when one opens the topic and many of the videos try to start streaming, it can be hard for internet connection.

      Gai...

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      • simon le bonS Offline
        simon le bon
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        If at the end of your KitoRaupp Pottery, you deselect ( 😮 Oups!) the spiral line you wanted (and needed) to remove, >> No Panic!!
        Just take a look on this strange but very efficient new selection tool: "selected edges by defined angle", our frenchy Matt666 have developped in his last Selection Manager. It is specificaly a good tool to achieve the job ( to remove the spiral line) 😉 simon

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        • pilouP Offline
          pilou
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          @unknownuser said:

          ( to remove the spiral line)

          or the cool Select lines by length by Chris Fullmer 😉

          Frenchy Pilou
          Is beautiful that please without concept!
          My Little site :)

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          • simon le bonS Offline
            simon le bon
            last edited by

            (Re: I give up posting direct videos on this thread, cause they seem to load more and more harder)

            PAINTING THE BOWL


            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/SanIldefonsoPottery_th.jpg


            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PaintingThebowl_Ath.jpg


            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PaintingThebowl_Bbth.jpg

            Plus: here is the basic skp if you want to play with it:
            PaintedBowl_c_a.skp

            Tools On Surface - v1.3 Fredo6
            Mirror_ v3.1 TIG
            Selection manager v1.1 Matt666
            :-)simonlebon

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            • simon le bonS Offline
              simon le bon
              last edited by

              Is it a Pottery Challenge or What? 😄

              Here is another fantastic way i was totaly ignorant to model our Bowl. Thanks Pilou to link this to us!

              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PilouMiniPottery.jpg

              Pilou's link linking to:

              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/watkins.jpg

              which linking to:
              KitoRaupp Pottery Twist on Youtube
              and
              KitoRaupp Spirale Tutorial on Youtube
              and others KitoRaupp productions 👍

              On another hand the technic used is not so easy to reproduce. So I made this small video to clarify it. (I'm the author of nothing here). 😉 😉 😎 Simon

              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/canyon_de_chelly_05t-02b.jpg


              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/KitoRauppPottery.jpg

              CenterPoint v.1.20 by Todd Burch

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              • GaieusG Offline
                Gaieus
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                These gif animations are very cool, Simon! Why don't you include the full size image with the [img] tags instead - after all they are not too big?

                http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/videos/Spiral_b.gif

                Gai...

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                • simon le bonS Offline
                  simon le bon
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                  Hi! dear Gaieus, our cool "watching and listening man" (I guess at night you like listen the stars in the sky !!)

                  In facts I have made this Gif (450x337) to fit the forum. It is an experiment to deliver an animated explanation which needs just few seconds, for it is the case very often. I've first tried to display it in full format, afterwords I thought an animated thumbnail leading to the full format was better. I don't know. It depends of the case for sure 😐

                  PS: i remember now why i made this way! This Gif is 732Ko . So if we put several in the same page we are surely going to difficult loading..

                  simon

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                  • simon le bonS Offline
                    simon le bon
                    last edited by

                    Merci Jean-Franco 👍 😉
                    Gaieus, "../but I do like them for sure. 👍 😄
                    There is many advantages to use Viddler: great picture quality, easy upload, nice statistics, Flash or original downloads, video comments, good sharing options,... Nothing is perfect, the streaming is a bit erratic 😕 So I now put direct link systematically just below .


                    I have made a mistake at the end of my previous second video, PaintingTheBowl_B.
                    In order to reconstruct my Bowl, I have copied the single slice x49 (Cause my starting stripped tube was based on a 50 segments circle) (i had been surprise by the enormous time this operation had taken 😮 )
                    In fact i had forgotten this supposed "single slice" was already made with a couple of slices (mirrored). So, it was only necessary to copy it by 24 !! 🤣

                    Simon

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                    • simon le bonS Offline
                      simon le bon
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                      %(#800000)[This thread is still intend to beginners. Regular SketchUp users might waste their time on this space (but who knows 🙂]
                      .
                      Secondly i have missed to explore a modeling way which makes school inside SU. It is certainly not the easiest way nor time saving one. But it is a fresh handmade way.

                      Indian bowls:

                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_Maricopa.jpg
                      .
                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_Qahatikawatergirl.jpg
                      .
                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_Potter_SantaClara.jpg
                      .

                      The starting shape:

                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_StripedTube.jpg

                      http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/16/
                      Main tips:
                      [url=http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/17/:dwaa06ky]
                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_MainTips-1.jpg
                      [/url:dwaa06ky]
                      [url:dwaa06ky]http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/17/[/url:dwaa06ky]
                      Potter Santa Clara
                      [url=http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/18/:dwaa06ky]
                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_IndianBowl.jpg
                      [/url:dwaa06ky]
                      [url:dwaa06ky]http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/18/[/url:dwaa06ky]
                      .
                      .
                      Additional References:
                      [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9079:dwaa06ky]GreenToaster "6 Minute Car" Vid Tuts[/url:dwaa06ky]
                      [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9561:dwaa06ky]Playing with curves[/url:dwaa06ky]

                      Ruby scripts/Plugins:
                      [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11212:dwaa06ky]Tools On Surface - v1.3[/url:dwaa06ky]
                      [url=http://www.smustard.com/script/MakeFaces:dwaa06ky]MakeFaces v.1.40[/url:dwaa06ky]

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                      • simon le bonS Offline
                        simon le bon
                        last edited by

                        Due to the intensive manipulations, we are driven to make a lot of small mistakes. Most of them they come from Move tool. This is problematic when we want to paint and modify the object.

                        Here is cases of twisted rings.

                        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_twistedRing_a.jpg
                        , ,
                        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_twistedRing_b.jpg

                        So here is a second method, yes less fun but more robust:

                        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_alternate.jpg

                        http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/19/

                        "Are you silly or what Simon? Just take a look at that and then tell me what!"
                        [url=http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/20/:vfaskebg]
                        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_simple.jpg
                        [/url:vfaskebg]
                        [url:vfaskebg]http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/20/[/url:vfaskebg]
                        "And please give me now only a reason to waste your time this way!"

                        [url=http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/twistedRing_motive.jpg:vfaskebg]"I surely have a reply to you (just clic on me:-)"[/url:vfaskebg]

                        "Here is an exemple of what i mean"
                        [url=http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/22/:vfaskebg]
                        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_temple.jpg
                        [/url:vfaskebg]
                        [url:vfaskebg]http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/22/[/url:vfaskebg]

                        [url=http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=13563&st=0&sk=t&sd=a:vfaskebg][Plugin] BezierSpline v1.21[/url:vfaskebg]

                        Aren't you tired with all these video?
                        ;-)simon

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                        • simon le bonS Offline
                          simon le bon
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                          @simon le bon said:

                          Monday, March 2nd.
                          After months I come back on this thread.

                          First, it's because the illuminating and simple Voder Vocoder's solution isn't available anymore on DataFileHost.

                          Secondly because since the end of this first part thread, fantastic tools had been developped by some (wellknown) especially tallented Ruby Makers. An important part of those tools leads to allow SketchUp to be a modelling engine.

                          so Here is my PoorFlatEllipsoidIndian Bowl made with: SubdivideAndSmooth v.1.00 _ by Dale Martens (Whaat)
                          (I must say i'm not at all specialized with S&S. It is not an easy set of tools. I must confess that when after a while, i want use it again, i must go back to see the video tuts 1 & 2 again and again 😄. But, but, little a little i find solutions to obtain what i want!! 👍 )(So for asking help, you can face up to our great masters as: Solo, Teezer, Boofredlay, Kwistenbiebel, Mariocha,.. sorry for those I forget or ignore)


                          http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_SS-1.jpg

                          Additional References:

                          Plugins:
                          Zorro2 (beta) by Whaat on Sun Jan 25, 2009 5:55 am

                          Tutorials:
                          Tutorial Part 1
                          Tutorial Part 2
                          SubD2_fauteuil
                          Pillow

                          Various threads:
                          In Development: Subdivide and Smooth
                          Just Released! Subdivide and Smooth
                          Curtains
                          need help with Solos tutorial?
                          Still playing with SubSmooth
                          Organic Chair Model Question....I need help?
                          [TUTORIAL]: texturing organic form (subsmooth)
                          subd and smooth stuff

                          . Ouf! simon.

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                          • simon le bonS Offline
                            simon le bon
                            last edited by

                            Snippet pasted from Shaping a cylinder - interesting technique about the "fifteen degrees rotation" needed to achieve the spiral.


                            personal asking:
                            Why only a 15° disc rotation allows copy of ring angled edges to fit with the source, whatever the height is?

                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_spiral_ep.jpg
                            .
                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_spiral_15d.jpg

                            Ecuadorian answer:
                            360º (full circle) / 24 sides in circle (SketchUp default) = 15º

                            If you want to use a 10º degree rotation you need to start with 36 sides in the circle.

                            If you want to do it with 20º, you need an 18-sided circle.

                            Solution during the night:
                            I was thinking of this in the very morning before wake! And i've find this is not something of "big theory" as I thought, but something pretty simple 😄

                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/spir_A.jpg


                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_spir_B.jpg


                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/th_spir_C.jpg


                            🤓 simon

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                            • simon le bonS Offline
                              simon le bon
                              last edited by

                              And if you need a spiral line angled as you whish: "No Problem 😆 "


                              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/videos/th_Spiral_b.gif

                              it's always me 😉

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                              • simon le bonS Offline
                                simon le bon
                                last edited by

                                Come on Guys,
                                No good Tip added, no alternative process suggested, no remark on where I'm wrong, no companions to follow me in this "tutorials trail". Do you think I'm making this heavy work for some individual glory? I make it for you, dear-to-my-heart community. To accomplish something in a participative way.. I'm tired to work on the wind.

                                simon.

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                                • soloS Offline
                                  solo
                                  last edited by

                                  Simon

                                  What can I say? I liked your tutorial, I like the way you use SDS. I would have used the follow me tool or created a proxy actually but seeing your process you seem to have more control over the final outcome giving your method more accuracy.
                                  That's the great thing about SU, there are so many solutions to a problem, and finding the one that works easiest to you is the answer.

                                  Believe it or not I learn everyday on this forum about new techniques, faster work arounds, hell just keeping up with all the new plugins is already becoming a fulltime job....and I'm loving it.
                                  I forsee we will have a bunch of new tools soon as with the advent of one cool plugin it normally inspires or even opens the door to another, I bet in a year from now creating the same bowl/vase will be even easier with a tool we have not seen yet.

                                  http://www.solos-art.com

                                  If you see a toilet in your dreams do not use it.

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                                  • simon le bonS Offline
                                    simon le bon
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks Solo for this friendly post which freeing my mind.

                                    @unknownuser said:

                                    I bet in a year from now creating the same bowl/vase will be even easier with a tool we have not seen yet.

                                    I think my set of simple indian bowls is a good exercise to introduce new modelling plugins and to show what they potentially are able to do.

                                    ++ simon.

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                                    • N Offline
                                      nomeradona
                                      last edited by

                                      thanks i love your approach.

                                      visit my blog: http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com

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                                      • simon le bonS Offline
                                        simon le bon
                                        last edited by

                                        thanks to you nomeradona for this fresh word 😛

                                        I have tried to find out how to paint this S&S Bowl. (lot of tries believe me). It is not simple because S&S shapes are based on square, not on circle. And if we don't want to paint by hand the overall indian pot, we have to use the sectors solution (see VoderVocoder solution). In our case, the minimum sector is a quarter.

                                        Here is the first pair of solutions. One solution to isolate the quarter,+ one to paint the bowl.
                                        (tomorrow (i hope) the second pair ) 😉

                                        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_SS_Quarter1.jpg


                                        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/PotterSC_SS_Paint1.jpg

                                        Comment1:
                                        I have tried boolean tools to isolate the quarter bowl from the crossed panel: Boolean--OSCoolean , BoolTools just released without success. the shape seems to be not a "valid solid" 😮

                                        comment2:
                                        Rotate and copy the quarter needs great accuracy: i have missed it for a while ❓

                                        plugins used:
                                        Construction Line Tool by Jim
                                        Projection toolbar by Didier Bur

                                        simon, still walking on this tutorials trek

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                                        • GaieusG Offline
                                          Gaieus
                                          last edited by

                                          Simon, have you also tried UVTools? These radial shapes seem to be perfect candidates for it.

                                          For the BoolTools, you'd probably have to "close" the empty sides of the quarter shapes.

                                          Gai...

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                                          • simon le bonS Offline
                                            simon le bon
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi Gaieus 😉
                                            Using UVTools to "paint" my Bowl, is I think an excellent idea. I have totaly forget it, but also have never use it. So i keep it in mind and will try something later.

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            For the BoolTools, you'd probably have to "close" the empty sides of the quarter shapes.

                                            I had already tried this but it seems it is the Bowl itself which need to be closed. And I have to find how i can do it, and undo !

                                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/boolTool_1b.jpg

                                            ( Subdivide & Smooth , BoolTools, UVTools, Whaat's shadow is all over this thread 😄 )

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