Curved surfaces
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Good morning all. Sparks62 here. I'm pretty much a newb, although I can draw the basics. Since I retired 2 yrs ago I've been building furniture quite a bit. Back in the day when I had a real job (as an electrician) I used Autocad a fare bit , but was never close to being a pro. I have always done my plans in Autocad but am trying to make the jump to Sketchup. I'm trying to draw a dining chair so as to be able to add arms and thereby checking the aesthetics and possible problems. The drawing is mostly straight lines and does not present any problems. However the upper and lower back splats are curved on top as well as the face and back. I can make a curve on either the face (and back) or the top, but note both. Any suggestions or tips would be much appreciated.
Thank you.
Mark
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Mark, welcome. Your back splats call for some intersecting geometry. Draw the top edge of the bent slplat and use Push/Pull to make it 3D. Then draw the curve for the top or bottom as the edge of a face that you can then push/pull through the splat. Select all of the geometry and use Intersect Faces>With Selection. Delete the stuff that isn't the splat.
I've done at least a few tutorials on this sort of thing on the Design. Click. Build. blog. I'll see if I can dredge up links. If nothing else, the entry from Saturday shows a similar thing to put a bevel on a turning gouge.
You can see essentially the same idea used for drawing a sugar scoop.
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I just made up a curve for your back splats and did in your model.
On thing to note: I made the back splat taller so there was plenty to cut off. this can help you avoid issues with incomplete faces from the intersect process. And since dust collection is 100% it's cool.
Same process used on the back splats for this chair:
These reindeer:
And this chair:
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Damn! Outstanding Dave. when you put it like that it makes perfect sense. I like what you did with my chair as well. Thanks again.
Mark.
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