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    • M Offline
      Mike91
      last edited by

      Thank you for your answer, I've tried with curviloft but can't seem to make it work. Maybe because I've never used it and didn't understand all the commands from the tutorial.
      Here is the .skp file in sketchup8


      Space truss.skp

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      • Rich O BrienR Offline
        Rich O Brien Moderator
        last edited by

        Your profiles are very dense.

        Maybe adjust them to reflect the final form you need....

        screen-grab_064.jpg

        Space truss.skp

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        • Rich O BrienR Offline
          Rich O Brien Moderator
          last edited by

          Sorry, here's a v8 version of the file...

          Space truss-v8.skp

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          • M Offline
            Mike91
            last edited by

            Thank you again for helping.
            The problem is that i need squares of about 1 meter x 1 meter and I can't seem to get that with curviloft.
            Plus with curviloft i get that circle on the top as you've made.
            I've also tried to make a plane with the 1x1 meter grid and then curved it so that it would fit my surface but I wasn't able to do it.

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            • gillesG Offline
              gilles
              last edited by

              This could be a first step:

              slicer5 from TIG in extension store.

              " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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              • Rich O BrienR Offline
                Rich O Brien Moderator
                last edited by

                Gilles just svaed the day. Nice approach!


                screen-grab_065.jpg

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                • gillesG Offline
                  gilles
                  last edited by

                  Lot of work after this to make a decent model…

                  " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                  • M Offline
                    Mike91
                    last edited by

                    Thank you very much! I'll download and try tomorrow. It's definitely a lot of work but I need it in order to make an architecture collage on photoshop to show a view of the interior and exterior.

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                    • M Offline
                      Mike91
                      last edited by

                      I've tried your method and I now have the surface with mostly regular quads.
                      I now have to make "pyramids" on top of them in order to have the final space truss to transform into tubes.
                      I've started to do that on a face but I'm struggling to get the vertical line to the single face in order to than make the four lines that reach the four vertices in order to make the pyramid. Also is there a way to automatically transform all those quad faces into pyramids with a 1 meters by 1 meters base(the one already existing in the mesh) and a 0.5 meters height? I've tried the s4u to component but can't make it work...

                      Thank you very much for helping!


                      Space truss.skp

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                      • gillesG Offline
                        gilles
                        last edited by

                        Ok, let's have a more simple workflow:


                        Find the center of the arc


                        create a comp and copy/array


                        copy/array on the other side


                        erase unwanted


                        Spacetruss.skp

                        " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                          Mike91
                          last edited by

                          Wow! I can't thank you enough, I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!

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                          • gillesG Offline
                            gilles
                            last edited by

                            The model is far from perfect, so do one by yourself if you want good results.

                            " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                              @unknownuser said:

                              I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!

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