Hello all need help

yf90

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Anybody have any thoughs that what software capable do this form? I'm thinking rhino but does sketchup has this capability?

Thanks all

gilles

Make a plain shape it must be a solid then apply TIG's Slicer 5 (see plugin index).

yf90

thanks!, im guessing the dynamic form made by subdivide tool? here is my try out using x and y to form the similiar structure.

Thanks all
yf90

Test with slicer x and y

pilou

@unknownuser said:

im guessing the dynamic form made by subdivide tool?

Arc circle tangent of SU are sufficient
Slicer by Tig

pilou

You have also Extrude Edges By Rail By Lattice by Tig

or Extrude edges by rail by faces by Tig

etc...

pbacot

Not being familiar with how slicer works I was curious about doing this with solid tools. It worked sort of but SU really can't do justice to what you show there. It took almost an hour to perform the solid subtraction for one of these. But really I'm not sure if SU can do a good job of even the basic nurb-like shapes, and in the end can't handle the polys.

yf90

Hi all

Appreciate all the effort! Im having difficulty to create the join of forms such as the structure to structure like the canopy like a fluidity form

Thanks all
yf90

The form study of the canopy joint of each structure

jeff hammond

@yf90 said:

thanks!, im guessing the dynamic form made by subdivide tool? here is my try out using x and y to form the similiar structure.

Thanks all
yf90

i'm not convinced that what we're seeing in this types of structures are generally 'blob' shaped.. or something which is made strictly via proxy and subdivision..

i thnk a lot of the times, we're looking at mathematically driven forms.. and at the root, have a fairly simple -or- at least understandable and describable shape

so you might want to- at least for a general type of practice- try to draw the shape or part of the shape in a more strict manner than relying solely on sub division.

gilles

Have a look at the file.

Seville_V6.skp

yf90

Thanks Gilles for the file, i just want to ask how do you do the joint of each component intersecting, is there a plugin do that?

Thanks all
yf90

gilles

You mean Shell? It's Outer shell, tools/outer shell. In free and pro, works only with solids.