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    • ntxdaveN Offline
      ntxdave
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      @Box - yes, that helped a lot. I can see that the Unsmooth Quads was the button that answered my questions about displaying the quad faces when you leave the edit group/component mode.

      Thanks for that one. I just need to keep clicking icons and see if I can get the full gest of all of them. Next venture will be exploring applying materials.

      I do not think I fully appreciate/understand UV yet either. Yes, I have done some reading but I could not explain to someone else yet exactly what it means. So I need to delve further into the whole UV mapping world as well.

      I hope my stupid questions on this thread might be helping some others understand this whole world as well. I would like to think that I am not the only one who, up until now, has not completely understood the significance of quad modeling. You can see that these techniques are what is behind tools like Curviloft and some others that provide the ability to turn things into nicely rounded surfaces.

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      • thomthomT Offline
        thomthom
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        @ntxdave said:

        I hope my stupid questions on this thread might be helping some others understand this whole world as well.

        Don't consider them stupid questions - they are legit and important in part of learning. Don't be shy to ask.

        Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        • ntxdaveN Offline
          ntxdave
          last edited by

          @thomthom said:

          Don't consider them stupid questions - they are legit and important in part of learning. Don't be shy to ask.

          Thanks - I really am trying to learn. Without being disparaging to anyone who develops and documents these great tools, I find that many times the documentation takes things for granted and documents things at a level that many of us have a very hard time with. As I said in an earlier post, I have considered putting together a truly beginners document for quad modeling. I might try to do it but I first have to better understand the tools so that I could put something together from a true beginners perspective.

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          • HornOxxH Offline
            HornOxx
            last edited by

            any fictional car dashboard

            @ ntxdave - thanks for asking all this, your questions are mine as well and I am glad that Cotty has opened this topic


            Render 1600.jpg


            Dashboard Proxy.skp

            never trust a skinny cook

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            • HornOxxH Offline
              HornOxx
              last edited by

              Jo-Ke´s nice "looking for a new droid"-topic brought me to this (An)droid idea...
              http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81%26amp;t=62870

              (I have no idea how to avoid the deformations at the eyes, so suggestions are most welcome)


              __Render 1600.jpg


              __Montage 1600.jpg


              android-droid Proxy.skp

              never trust a skinny cook

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              • pilouP Offline
                pilou
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                @unknownuser said:

                (I have no idea how to avoid the deformations at the eyes, so suggestions are most welcome)

                Maybe this ? 😉

                GIF_circle.gif

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                • ntxdaveN Offline
                  ntxdave
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                  @box said:

                  This is the basic process I used, forgive the wandering mouse as I haven't had my coffee yet but this could be tweaked to any detail level you desire and done correctly will remain a solid with a suitable double skin. It is after all nothing more than a scaled tube.

                  http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s296/storeben/SU/Funnel.gif

                  I have watched this animation a BUNCH of times now and there are two things I am missing:

                  1. What is being clicked to show the quad faces on the top surface?
                  2. When I try to use the Z axis scale and drag down like Box does in the animation, I do not get the scaling horizontally the way he does. I just get it attempting to scale the height (again z axis - not on the x and y axis the way he is doing it)What am I doing wrong?
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                  • ntxdaveN Offline
                    ntxdave
                    last edited by

                    OK - I just answered #2 myself - Hold down the Shift key silly. DUH - it is called read the darn documentation.

                    At least I was able to answer it myself. I guess that is called learning!!

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                    • pilouP Offline
                      pilou
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                      @unknownuser said:

                      1 What is being clicked to show the quad faces on the top surface?

                      As only points of the top are selected, click on the top surface will must select the entiere top surface ...

                      trompet.jpg

                      Frenchy Pilou
                      Is beautiful that please without concept!
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                      • ntxdaveN Offline
                        ntxdave
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                        @pilou said:

                        @unknownuser said:

                        1 What is being clicked to show the quad faces on the top surface?

                        As only points of the top are selected, click on the top surface will must select the entiere top surface ...

                        Since this is an animated gif, I cannot point to the exact time in the animation so I think I may not be making my question clear. Let me try my question again.

                        After he used the push/pull tool he then uses the Gizmo tool to split the vertical faces. He then selects the entire object and clicks on something that then shows multiple quads on the top face. What did he click to show the quads on the top face?

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                        • N Offline
                          numerobis
                          last edited by

                          I think what you're searching is TIG's SplitDonut from splitTOOLS
                          http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=43376#p386658

                          (the vertical edges are inserted using the "Connect Edges Tool" (QuadFace Tools))

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                          • HornOxxH Offline
                            HornOxx
                            last edited by

                            ...for showing up the Quads, that is, what Cotty explained me to do on page 2 within this topic
                            (you must scroll down a bit) I hope this works for you as well?


                            _Quads.jpg

                            never trust a skinny cook

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                            • ntxdaveN Offline
                              ntxdave
                              last edited by

                              Well, I opened the Funnel.gif file in another piece of software and isolated where I have been seeing the problem. Look at this image:
                              Cannot see what was clicked

                              @numerobis I think you may have nailed it. I will go try that.

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                              • HornOxxH Offline
                                HornOxx
                                last edited by

                                ... ok - therefor you will need Tig´s SplitDonut tool

                                http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=386601#p386601
                                http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=386610#p386610
                                http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=377338#p377338


                                _Splitt Donut.jpg

                                never trust a skinny cook

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                                • thomthomT Offline
                                  thomthom
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                                  @hornoxx said:

                                  Jo-Ke´s nice "looking for a new droid"-topic brought me to this (An)droid idea...
                                  http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81%26amp;t=62870

                                  (I have no idea how to avoid the deformations at the eyes, so suggestions are most welcome)

                                  This illustrates a hole on a flat surface - but maybe it can be applied still. The quads around it seem to flow in line with the hole.

                                  Link Preview Image
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                                  • ntxdaveN Offline
                                    ntxdave
                                    last edited by

                                    OK - a silly example but after all of my notes trying to get things working like @Box showed, here is something to let you know I am getting there.

                                    DavesFunnel.PNG

                                    Thanks to all of you that got me going on the right path......stick around, I will probably come up with something else. Just wanted to let you all know that I am making some progress.

                                    👍 👍 👍 👍 👍

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                                    • BoxB Offline
                                      Box
                                      last edited by

                                      numerobis was absolutely right about split tools Dave, and if you scrolled down from that gif to the next one where I answered you about the curves, You will see I showed you split tools there.

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                                      • ntxdaveN Offline
                                        ntxdave
                                        last edited by

                                        @box said:

                                        numerobis was absolutely right about split tools Dave, and if you scrolled down from that gif to the next one where I answered you about the curves, You will see I showed you split tools there.

                                        Yes, I see that now. I just forgot it. I was looking at the Funnel gif and it did not show and I did not properly put the two together.

                                        Now going back to the referenced video (the curves one), I see that you used another plugin that I think is CadFather's Soften/Unsoften to divide all of the selected surfaces into quads. Is that another tool that you recommend?

                                        Please be patient with me. It is finally starting to sink in. This stuff is a pretty different from the type of modeling I have been doing but I can see where it can pay off and definitely is something all of us should learn.

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                                        • ntxdaveN Offline
                                          ntxdave
                                          last edited by

                                          @Box - your patience is paying off for me. Here is my latest endeavor in trying to learn how to do some quad modeling.
                                          Faucet.png

                                          This is actually two pieces. The faucet is a separate component from the base. I tried drawing the two pieces as a single object but could not get it to come out right.

                                          Any advice?

                                          One concern I have with all of this is the file size. This drawing is a little over 9Mb. If I wanted to include it in a kitchen or bathroom along with some other stuff then you could wind up with some huge files. Is this normal?

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                                          • HieruH Offline
                                            Hieru
                                            last edited by

                                            @ntxdave said:

                                            One concern I have with all of this is the file size. This drawing is a little over 9Mb. If I wanted to include it in a kitchen or bathroom along with some other stuff then you could wind up with some huge files. Is this normal?

                                            It's relatively normal and Sketchup seems to handle things very well these days.

                                            I'll use SubD for various models in a scene, including multiple taps/faucets and various other elements - many of which may have quite complex geometry for the control mesh.

                                            Here's a moderately detailed example:
                                            SubDTap.jpg


                                            Mayfair_Cielo_Proxy.zip

                                            www.davidhier.co.uk

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