Business Card stack.

david_h · 26 Jul 2010, 20:51

The twisty tool plugin works the best for me. . .

d12dozr · 26 Jul 2010, 21:00

Do you have a link or a the 'official' plugin name, David?

utiler · 26 Jul 2010, 22:45

@d12dozr said:

Do you have a link or a the 'official' plugin name, David?

Yes, I'm interested too, d12dozr?

Do tell David.

Box · 26 Jul 2010, 23:04

I believe he is talking about Fredoscale, as mentioned above.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17948

david_h · 27 Jul 2010, 01:04

Yes. . .Sorry about that. FredoSCALE!

d12dozr · 27 Jul 2010, 01:48

Oh, haha, thanks

Verrou · 27 Jul 2010, 08:40

@box said:

This one intrigued me, so I had a bit of a play. The type of structure is useful for me in other things so I was curious about a quick way of doing it.

Baz, I was trying fredoscale when you posted, but I wasn't really able to get the desired result.
I was probably using it wrong, but I found it sloped the edges of the cards in the twist.

So I asked a quick question, which was immediately answered by rclub24 who pointed me to Chris Fullmer's Component Stringer. Wonderful plugin!

So a little play with that to work it out and then I jumped on my bike and roared off to my Doc appointment, a short 100mile loop, it's only about 20 in the car.

So to cut a long story short, too late I hear you say, with a freshly cleared head I sat down and made this 100 card stack in about 15min.
Basically, make your one card component, do a few calculations to get the spacing right, move the axis of the component to the point you want it to rotate from, draw a line the height of the stack you want and use Component Stringer to create the rest and rotate them.

It's a little too smooth but it gives a nice effect and is very quick to make.

Yeah, I also found that with the box twisting tool, your image looks perfect for what I am after, can you give a more detailed guide? And a link to the plugin?

Thanks

Box · 27 Jul 2010, 09:55

You'll find Component Stringer here http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=23616
Watch the vid and look through the posts and you'll quickly understand how it works, very simple and useful.

As to exactly what I did,

I made one card.
I measured a card I had here, it was 85mm X 55mm and looked like about 1/3 of a mm thick.
I Scaled up by 10,
so I drew a rectangle 850mm X 550mm and push/pulled to 3.3mm.
added the card texture.
Made that a component.
Shifted the Axis of the component to a point roughly on the diagonal between the corner and the centre.

Drew a line on the blue Axis 33mm (being 100 X 3.3mm) and divided it into 100.
Selected the line and the component and activated component stringer.
Chose Scaling/None and Component Rotation/ 0.2
Then hit OK, and you have a stack of 100 each rotated around the moved axis point by .2Deg.

Then with the tape measure I resized the model back down to 85mm.

You can do smaller sections if you want the stack to move around more, or even use a curved line.

Hope that helps.
I'm sure there are still better ways to do this but that is how my beginner mind worked it out.

I've added the model below if you want it.

BusCard.skp

Verrou · 28 Jul 2010, 07:31

That worked beautifully! Thanks so much

Box · 28 Jul 2010, 07:59

I'm glad I could help.

Rob D · 28 Jul 2010, 09:02

Thinking laterally. You already have a photo of the card stack. Use photomatch to line up and draw the top card:
Then File > Import, Use as Texture and stretch an image of the top card over the surface. Turn off edges.

Rob D · 28 Jul 2010, 09:05

Sorry - I didn't see there was a second page of posts - looks like you already sorted it

Verrou · 28 Jul 2010, 09:43

Yep, all sorted But thanks for your suggestion anyway.