A Welcome Message to New SketchUcation Members

simrose · 20 Oct 2010, 11:31

Hi all,

first of all my big hearty thanks to sketchucation for making such a community. its such a blessing n a boon for alll sketchup learners .. i have been of late reffering to this site quiet a lot and got introduced to this awesome aid for imagination called sketch up, day by day i make it a point to learn atleast few things new in it!!

smtime back i had downloaded a 3d model of a violin and was tryin my hand to remake it. kinda was tricky for me as i m just a beginner. m trying to crack it little by little. i got myself stuck making the spiral part as seen in the image i ll attach alongwith. it wud be a grt help if smone cud lemme knw how to make a spiral top that way.

thanks in advance,
simrose

Gaieus · 20 Oct 2010, 11:59

Well, if I am not mistaken, that violin was made by this person . As far as I know him, he must have made it simply "hand stitching" (especially that it was in version 5 with lot less plugins than nowadays).

simrose · 20 Oct 2010, 13:13

Thank you so much for the swift reply, but pardon me for asking a silly question , may be cos i m new to it-----what is "hand-stiching" is it a plugin or manually draging and joining vertices and edges??

Thanks
simrose

Gaieus · 20 Oct 2010, 14:04

When you draw the lines one-by-one and not generate it with some plugin or otherwise.

zach · 20 Oct 2010, 19:25

Hi, I started Martin's "Edges to Rubies" tutorial prior to last summer. It seems like an excellent tutorial, but I stopped using it (and SketchUp) for the past 6 months due to other time commitments. I've waited so long to restart, that I think that I'll need to start over again to get my bearings. One initial directive that I was unable to resolve the first time that I started Martin's tutorial (and I'd like to get it right this time) is "How to Create a Working Directory". Martin suggests naming it C:\carrige_house -and that seems fine, but I'm not sure how I create this (file?). I have windows vista. I've tried Google, but that doesn't seem to bring up what I'm looking for. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Zach

simrose · 21 Oct 2010, 06:42

ah that way!!! now i got it! lemme try that out!!! thanks Gaieus!!

Simrose

Hepf · 21 Oct 2010, 08:20

Hi, I've had a peek at Solo's site, and it's fantastic. The ship though is a roman ship, not viking ...

Avi Sacks · 21 Oct 2010, 08:29

Hello,

I could use your help!!!!!!! I am working on a model of a building that I have painted with various renderings surrounded by various buildings on the site that are in grey only. I would like to know if I can somehow show the main building without display edges and the background buildings with display edges????? I greatly appreciate your help

Gaieus · 21 Oct 2010, 08:49

Best would be to group them separately. Then edit the group with the colour building (if there are further subgroups/components, you have to do this one by one), switch to wireframe face style (View menu > Face style OR from the Styles toolbar if you activate it from the View menu > Toolbars).

Now as only your edges are displayed, select all (Ctrl+A or with the select tool using a bounding box, NOT triple clicking as it would select the hidden faces as well), right click on any edge in the selection and "Hide".

Unfortunately this is the only way to do it (as you cannot have two, different styles in one scene) and if you have many subgroups/components, it can take a while.

You could also put those edges on a layer and turn its visibility on/off as you like but that is risky as any time you modify the geometry, it will merge with other geometry on other layers etc.

Hepf · 21 Oct 2010, 09:10

Well, I am definitely a newbie. I have opened a thread on "Build Rome", and have been exchanging notes with Gaieus, who has been enormously helpful and patient with me. But I suppose it's good manners to introduce myself. I am italian, almost 70 years old. I like elephants and have a collection of them.
James quote: ‎"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines" Frank Lloyd Wright
hit me badly, and gave me an occasion.
You see, I have a degree in architecture, but never worked in that area, my activities are in the area of regional planning and GIS (and a quirky instance in history of Paraguay, I am an expert in that, and this year I'll be giving a round of conferences, for the 200th anniversary of Paraguay's independence).
My professor, in Venice, was Carlo Scarpa, a great architect and admirer (maybe more than admirer, an adorator) of FLW. Well, he convinced me that I was not up to the profession, by citing what I now see was his variation of that quote: "if a butcher cuts his beef clumsily, it won't ruin the taste, and it will disappear after eaten, but an architect's work remains for years for everybody to see ...".
He convinced me, and I never worked as an architect. Now it's too late, but I think I was wrong in following that advice. First thing, Scarpa was dead drunk when he yelled at me (he had just arrived from Toronto, he was terribly scared of flying, and solved the problem by getting drunk), and I have seen the work of several of my colleagues who have been working as architects for all this time, and I think I could do better ...
Well, thanks for all the very useful hints I find in the site, and see you around ...

Gaieus · 21 Oct 2010, 09:21

Hi Marco and welcome (again) on the forums!

dropoyin · 27 Oct 2010, 11:55

Hi,

I am Kurdz, and i'm new here, i'm amazed of what can sketchup do, so i will try my best to learn more here... stuffs like 3D modeling, hoping i can make my own model, hehehe thanks.

copin · 28 Oct 2010, 05:43

Hi everyone. I'm copin, a newbie of sketchup but have been making some Ruby scripts for a couple of months. I'm very impressed such a large amount of know-hows, plugins and so on.
I'm looking for themes on Ruby development environment, debugging methods combined with some IDEs and SKU.
Anyway, I'm very happy to be here. Thank you.

Gaieus · 28 Oct 2010, 05:59

Hi Copin and welcome!

You will probably find answers to a lot of questions down in the developers forum!

okto · 28 Oct 2010, 08:22

@unknownuser said:

Hello there,

Welcome to this little SketchUp Community we have set up here!

Welcome to this forum for all your beginners questions. You may also have more advanced questions and may post them in the appropriate forum.
If you're not sure if your question is beginner or advanced, then don't worry too much. The world is full of worrisome people already and we want you to get that cozy - de-worried feeling here. So in that case just post it here anyway.

Hi, im Okto.very new here. and very new also in design. im using Macbook white. and SU 7 pro.not mine acctually. my good friends let me to use his Mac.hehe.lucky me.
anyway. im very interest in design specially using SU. it's very user friendly interface. i hope i can be like you all who can make a very great design. i cant do hand draw. so this is my answer to release my passion of deign.hehehehe..please guide me.
maybe i try to post one of my design so i can get critics and advise.
best regards to you all

3D Sloth · 3 Nov 2010, 11:55

Hi there to all, glad to enter this community for I'll be messing around with Sketchup for quite awhile.
My main interests are photorealistic renders, mainly on Kerkythea.
Hope to have great fun in here with you people!

Gaieus · 3 Nov 2010, 14:18

Welcome, Pedro!

Kerkythea is indeed a fine renderer - quite a lot of member use it here, too. See you in the Gallery soon!

habitables · 6 Nov 2010, 17:37

Hi everyone! Many thanks for this great forum! Great place to share/learn information. I've been using SketchUp for about 4 years now, and it really is a superb tool.

I'm a practising architect (and a blogger) and I just wanted to introduce myself. I hope to be using this forum lots in the future, both to learn and to inform!

kramichael · 8 Nov 2010, 19:38

I thought I would put this here since I am and always will be a newbie + this is a setting problem that was discussed in this list earlier. Hope it helps.

I was having problems with Orbit and my scroll wheel button on my Logitech MX 1100. I did a palm/face when I finally figured it out. If you're having troubles go into your System Preferences window at the bottom should be a row called Others. Open up the setting window for this mouse, select 'click' for scroll wheel button and them configure the click to 'Middle Click'. Simple as that.

pedro500 · 11 Nov 2010, 20:48

Hello,thank you for the welcome Ive been learning sketchup for a couple of weeks now and find it great for drawing up engineering components as I dont think I could manage something like cad,by the way can you export from sketchup to a cad program,thanks again Pedro