Double Curved Roof?

TIG

A try my ExtendEdgesByRails and related tools ?

jeff hammond

@tig said:

A try my ExtendEdgesByRails and related tools ?

yeah, the extrude edges tools will come in very handy for drawing things like the bird'snest..

you can get real curvy with it (and clean too! & relatively quick)

[sorry i don't have much time to give an example for greensaint's question.. just saying that it is very possible to draw that in sketchup.]

remus

Heres a quick tut using the method i described.

Its worth trying to do it with TIGs extrude edges though, as i encountered a small snag in the method i described in that roundcorner doesnt work very well.

birds nest tut.skp

GreenSaints

Hey,

Thanks for all your quick responses - and thanks Remus for the tutorial file.

I'll have a play around with something this weekend and post what I come up with. What I want to produce is like half the birds nest, but half of it with the slope near to the ground....a bit like this

That's the plan anyway

TIG

This is a tutorial on EEbyRails by 'Arc' http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=217839#p217839
The final frames show a result not very dissimilar to what you want ?

GreenSaints

Hey,

Thanks TIG - that's great

Sorry for all the questions (I am a newbie after all!) How would I get the bird nest type roof on that curved building as per the video?

Does that make sense? Is it even possible?!

Thank you again

mitcorb

It is very possible, depending on your hardware. I say this because I am imagining lots of loose geometry, groups and components. And processing horsepower will be needed for good progress. Or you draw a line wait a minute draw another line wait another minute...
It helps to plan this out and real scale also helps.

TIG

@greensaints said:

Hey,
Thanks TIG - that's great
Sorry for all the questions (I am a newbie after all!) How would I get the bird nest type roof on that curved building as per the video?
Does that make sense? Is it even possible?!
Thank you again

You'll need to do some manual work once you have the basic form...
I am working on other EEtools that will extrude faces along edges and also rails/profiles to make 'lattices' - but that won't be ready for a while...

pilou

@unknownuser said:

EEtools that will extrude faces along edges and also rails/profiles to make 'lattices'

Cool news

TIG

Pilou - as we say 'I let the cat out of the bag'