Curved surface driving me crazy!! Help!

winesellar10 · 5 Mar 2012, 05:25

Hi Everyone,
I need help!! I have been playing around with this on and off for, embarrassed to say, months now. I know I can't push/pull on curved surfaces (i've downloaded the joint push pull plugin, but can't get it to help with what I am trying to achieve). I've also tried the solid tools, but am not having luck with that either. My two problems are:

Getting the curved cutouts onto the curved surfaces
Figuring out how to work with the angle that the curved surface makes.

I've attached a pdf of what I am trying to do, and also the sketchup file for it. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

Here is what I am trying to achieve

Here is the sketchup file I am working with

mac1 · 5 Mar 2012, 06:00

Try Fredos http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=17948 scale tool or chris fullmers shape bender http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?t=18210

winesellar10 · 5 Mar 2012, 06:58

Thank you so much! That is exactly what I was looking for. I actually have both plugins that you mentioned, but haven't had the patience to read through the user manuals yet. Can you give me a quick run down on the steps you did?

Thank you so much again!

mac1 · 5 Mar 2012, 15:26

Used Fredos scale tool and radial bending by selection of plane and edge.

guanjin · 6 Mar 2012, 06:21

@winesellar10 said:

Thank you so much! That is exactly what I was looking for. I actually have both plugins that you mentioned, but haven't had the patience to read through the user manuals yet. Can you give me a quick run down on the steps you did?

Thank you so much again!