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Help with table legs needed.

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    Gumleguf
    last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 06:30

    Hi all,

    New to the wonders of Sketchup, but loving it and learning more and more as I go along.

    I'm using Sketchup to make models of furnitures. The models I'm doing are mockups from which the customers approves the furniture, and the model is then also used by the person who is actually building the furniture. So nothing really advanced or hightec stuff here.

    I do however run into some problems with objects that have "special" shapes. At the moment I'm doing a table, and the legs I'd like to show on the model is the "wire-legs" as seen on the Piet Hein Superellipse table:

    http://schiang-living.dk/images/produkter/nT4XWqg1.jpg

    I don't know how to go about building an object with this shape. I have taken a look after a tutorial that could help me along, but was not able to find something (that I could understand, anyway).

    Is someone able to point me in the right direction?

    /G

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      Gaieus
      last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 08:25

      Hi G/ and welcome!

      You can draw single lines (or use arcs to draw curved ones) then use the Follow me tool to shape the legs to thin "wires".

      Gai...

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        Gumleguf
        last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 09:11

        Hi Gaieus,

        Thanks for the welcome.

        I tried your suggestion and drew a single arc. Once I understood that the face must be pendular to the path I was able to start building. I'll put some more effort into it, and get back with more questions (or hopefully a finished leg).

        Follow Me Tool

        Thanks again for the hint! πŸ‘

        /Greg

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          Gaieus
          last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 09:17

          Two things to take care of:

          • make sure that any curved path (arc) has a bigger radius than your circle that follows this path (otherwise it will "twist" into itself)
          • When you experience that some faces are not created, the reason will probably be that they are too small (SU won't create faces whose edges are as small as ~1/16" or ~1mm). In such a case, scale your model up by (say) 10 and when finished, scale it back by 0.1

          Gai...

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            ely862me
            last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 09:19

            If u divide the circle in 3 and draw an arc and use follow me on it, should be easy .. like this..
            T L a.jpg


            T L.jpg

            Elisei (sketchupper)


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              Gumleguf
              last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 09:34

              Excellent. Thanks. I'll give it a (newbie) shot. πŸ˜‰

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                Frederik
                last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 11:39

                @ely862me said:

                If u divide the circle in 3 and draw an arc and use follow me on it, should be easy ..

                That wouldn't be the right way of doing it, since the legs on the Piet Hein Superellipse table is four single tubes...

                I've attached an example of how I would do it...
                Pretty simple... πŸ˜‰


                Legs.jpg


                Legs.skp

                Cheers
                Kim Frederik

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                  Gumleguf
                  last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 11:49

                  Hi all,

                  I have made a quick model to try some of your suggestions. It seems to work out ok for a mockup.

                  Piet Hein Superellipse leg

                  Frederik -> Thanks for your model. I believe your version is more true to the original.

                  You have all been very helpful, so thanks a lot for sharing! πŸ˜„

                  /Greg

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                    ely862me
                    last edited by 9 Apr 2010, 12:38

                    @frederik said:

                    @ely862me said:

                    If u divide the circle in 3 and draw an arc and use follow me on it, should be easy ..

                    That wouldn't be the right way of doing it, since the legs on the Piet Hein Superellipse table is four single tubes...

                    Didn t saw exactly how they look like..sorry for that.

                    Anyway--seems like u re getting there πŸ˜„ . Great job!

                    Elisei (sketchupper)


                    Before no life was done on Earth it was THE LIFE ITSELF...GOD
                    Come and See EliseiDesign

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                      Frederik
                      last edited by 11 Apr 2010, 06:51

                      @ely862me said:

                      Didn t saw exactly how they look like..sorry for that.

                      Didn't mean to pick on you, Ely... Sorry if you felt that... 😳

                      Cheers
                      Kim Frederik

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                        ely862me
                        last edited by 11 Apr 2010, 07:32

                        @frederik said:

                        Didn't mean to pick on you, Ely... Sorry if you felt that... 😳

                        Hey..no problem(i didn t felt like that)- i should have watch better .. now i know how they look like.

                        Take care!


                        dsc_000954edit.jpg

                        Elisei (sketchupper)


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