Modeling of a Chain by using Sketchy Physics
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Hi All
For some time I tried to model a chain. I always added one chain link to the other by hand and it soon exceeded my skills, adjusting all the chain links correctly and with a good randomly look.
So I started playing with Sketchy Physics. A good video tutorial on YouTube helped me. Very quickly I found the desired arrangement of the chain links. But instead of working with the in this video-tutorial recommended groups, I used components. So I was able to replace the used simple basic geometry by a little more complex and already textured chain link geometry.
There is still a hurdle, for which I have not found a solution yet: How do I freeze a finished Sketchy Physics-state? Once Sketchy Physics has finished it´s work, I could not edit my chain links, because the entire arrangement jumped back to the starting position, as soon as I used the selection tool.
I run Sketchy Physics on a Skup 8 free version. I chose everything and copied it into my SkUp 13 Pro version, on which Sketchy Physics is not installed - This (workaround-)method worked fine and that´s the resultIf you're interested, here you can find the model:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=u68f43da3-19e7-4688-a53a-69700039bd70
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Nice looking and very simple and cool experiment...
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Great result and clever solution!
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These look great, very realistic!
I have used chains in several of my models, and, like you, have been connecting and adjusting them link by link.
Very tedious and time-consuming.
By coincidence I am working on a model that will have a number of chains (complex chains
), and I have been putting that off, hoping the Chain Fairy will visit me while I'm sleeping and use her magic wand to insert them for me.
I've never used SketchyPhysics, figured it was way beyond my tired brain. But after seeing what you did with it I've been checking it out on the off chance that I can grasp enuf of it to maybe get something useful done. Downloaded a bunch of web pages and a couple dozen videos and whatnot.
I'm not very hopeful, but will check them out and see what happens.
Who knows, maybe the Smart Fairy will visit me also
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I think you are searching for this?
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=61%26amp;t=58901%26amp;p=536091#p536091 -
Thank you All for your comments
and Cotty,
thank you for that link - yes, that's what I was looking for
I have to get used to this many buttons and the order of pressing them - it works!!
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