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    • cottyC Offline
      cotty
      last edited by

      My approach for this nice chair...

      • one component
      • arc tool
      • scale tool
      • circle tool
      • rotation tool
      • mirror plugin

      rising-chair.jpg

      The rotational part was done with some helping circles like this...

      risingchairrotate2.gif

      (After it was finished, I've realized that another rotation point in the center of the boards would have been better...)


      rising_chair_cotty.zip

      my SketchUp gallery

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      • HornOxxH Offline
        HornOxx
        last edited by

        Taff, that´s a great task!
        I also thought at first, that´s a rendering :- ))

        Cotty - your presentation is overwhelming! 👍

        never trust a skinny cook

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        • alvisA Offline
          alvis
          last edited by

          @hornoxx said:

          Cotty - your presentation is overwhelming! 👍

          I agree completely!

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          • cottyC Offline
            cotty
            last edited by

            Thank you. I've thought about a SketchyPhsics solution which allows the animation of the movement, but I haven't enough time for this...

            I would love to see other (faster?) attempts here too!

            my SketchUp gallery

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            • BoxB Online
              Box
              last edited by

              Couldn't agree with you more Cotty on the Sketchy Physics idea, hit me as soon as I looked at it. If I can get off this phone and Win8 tablet back to an old laptop that still has 2014 I'll knock one up. I can already picture a flat wall of slats falling into a chair position.

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              • D Offline
                driven
                last edited by

                I like the concept and will make a model when I get a moment [or many...]

                in the meanwhile I did a Visualizer run on Cotty's version...

                came out nice so thought I'd post it...
                yes it a quick render of cotty's chair...
                john

                learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                • cottyC Offline
                  cotty
                  last edited by

                  Nice, John!

                  A version with texture (same for all component copies, a little bit repetitive 😉 )...

                  rising_chair_cotty_render.jpg

                  my SketchUp gallery

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                  • TaffGochT Offline
                    TaffGoch
                    last edited by

                    @cotty said:

                    My approach for this nice chair...

                    • one component
                    • arc tool
                    • scale tool
                    • circle tool
                    • rotation tool
                    • mirror plugin

                    Commendations, cotty!  Your method is precisely the approach that I took. (Nice, concise presentation, by the way.)

                    For the confused, the "trick" was to look for additional online photos, to find the "slab" mounted on the wall (or lying on the floor.)  I imported a "slab" photo, as a texture, which I formatted to correct the perspective distortion. That one image provides the relative lengths of all the parts.

                    http://www.designboom.com/cms/images/user_submit/2011/04/copy_0_dsc03238.jpg

                    Getting the footprint "spread" (distance, front-to-back)  is, then, the only factor requiring some trial-and-error. Even then, there is a clue in the first photo. (Look for the two front stiles that are near vertical.)

                    'Rising' Chair - RobertVanEmbricqs.png

                    'Rising' Chair - RobertVanEmbricqs 2.png
                    Well, I have to say that, apparently, the challenge wasn't much of a skills test, for you insightful sketchUcation members. Regardless, I hope that, if you haven't yet given it a try, that you will -- adding something of value to your skill set.

                    (I agree with other participants, that an animated depiction would be nice to see.)

                    -Taff


                    'Rising' Chair - RobertVanEmbricqs.skp

                    "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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                    • cottyC Offline
                      cotty
                      last edited by

                      Thank you. Your smaller (drawn to scale) wooden slats looks much nicer and the sitting angle seems to be more comfortable.

                      Thank you again for this challenge.

                      my SketchUp gallery

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                      • Mike AmosM Offline
                        Mike Amos
                        last edited by

                        Nicely done Taff, thanks for making the model available to us. Very generous.

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                        • BoxB Online
                          Box
                          last edited by

                          As promised,
                          How to make a slab of timber batons into a nice chair, the Sketchy Physics method.


                          Rising Chair.gif

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                          • HornOxxH Offline
                            HornOxx
                            last edited by

                            👍 😆 👍

                            never trust a skinny cook

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                            • pilouP Offline
                              pilou
                              last edited by

                              THX to Taff Goch! 😎

                              Any idea of the real articulation on the Up part moving corner ?

                              Pasted scotch, velchro double face, hinge, ... ?

                              geant_chairs.jpg

                              Ps Funny: materials seems French fries! 💚

                              Frenchy Pilou
                              Is beautiful that please without concept!
                              My Little site :)

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                              • TIGT Offline
                                TIG Moderator
                                last edited by

                                'Pilou

                                It's hinged.
                                The metal [stainless-steel?] hinges are set flush into the wood.
                                They are on the back-side of the folded-flat version - you do not see them unless it's assembled, and even then they are underneath the wooden pieces.


                                Hinges.png

                                TIG

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                                • D Offline
                                  driven
                                  last edited by

                                  closer look...

                                  learn from the mistakes of others, you may not live long enough to make them all yourself...

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    Thx for the info! 👍

                                    Seems a dangerous chair for hands' children or old person! 😉

                                    Frenchy Pilou
                                    Is beautiful that please without concept!
                                    My Little site :)

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                                    • TaffGochT Offline
                                      TaffGoch
                                      last edited by

                                      @pilou said:

                                      Seems a dangerous chair for hands' children or old person! 😉

                                      I would add, "fragile" and "unstable," as well.

                                      There is no lateral (side-to-side)  connection, except at the floor "hinge." Any lateral force, up top, will bend and/or break things, down below.

                                      Attractive visually, but needs some serious real-world engineering to make it practical furniture.


                                      All I can think to say,Box, is that your posted image is, indeed, an animation. 😒

                                      -Taff

                                      "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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