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    Challenge - Model this unique chair

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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 ๐Ÿ˜‰ )...

      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! ย 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.) ย 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) ย 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

                ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ˜† ๐Ÿ‘

                never trust a skinny cook

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                • pilouP Offline
                  pilou
                  last edited by

                  THX to Taff Goch! ๐Ÿ˜Ž

                  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! ๐Ÿ’š

                  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! ๐Ÿ‘

                        Seems a dangerous chair for hands' children or old person! ๐Ÿ˜‰

                        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! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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

                          There is no lateral (side-to-side) ย 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,ย is that your posted image is, indeed, an animation. ๐Ÿ˜’

                          -Taff

                          "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

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