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    • BoxB Offline
      Box
      last edited by

      Haven't posted anything here for quite a while, so here is my 'Ikea Chess Set' and the basic method for creating them using Thomthom's Truebend.
      Truebend Chess.jpg

      https://i.imgur.com/AT3Zf8k.gif

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      • utilerU Offline
        utiler
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        I like the way you think, Box.!

        purpose/expression/purpose/....

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        • BoxB Offline
          Box
          last edited by

          I don't think the rest of the voices would agree with you.

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          • HornOxxH Offline
            HornOxx
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            @utiler said:

            I like the way you think, Box.!
            I agree !! (sorry Box πŸ˜„ )

            never trust a skinny cook

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            • BoxB Offline
              Box
              last edited by

              @hornoxx said:

              (sorry Box)
              I don't know about this, the rest of the voices in my head are arguing about it.

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              • HornOxxH Offline
                HornOxx
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                ... such a great and complex task again - truly admirable! (still I search unsuccessfully the IKEA context, did they sell this sometime? πŸ˜‰ ) Somewhere you mentioned (more or less) that it is hard to distinguish black and white figures - that's true. I would love to see some more details?

                and Utiler is right anyway !! πŸ˜‰ πŸ˜‰

                never trust a skinny cook

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                • BoxB Offline
                  Box
                  last edited by

                  Sorry, no, the Ikea reference was more about the angularity and colours. I said something like 'I think of this as the Ikea version. Having recently moved into a tiny apartment, all Ikea’d in black and white, may have somewhat influenced this concept.'
                  The majority of the furniture, bedding, curtains, walls, blinds even the window frames are black or white and the only curves are in the folds of the bedding.
                  Here's a quick example.
                  Ikea Bookshelves Hornoxx.jpg

                  And an SU close up of some of them.
                  Ikea Chess SU.png

                  I'll throw in a Mono to make it easier to see whats going on.
                  Ikea Chess Mono.png

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                  • HornOxxH Offline
                    HornOxx
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                    πŸ˜„ πŸ‘ thanks for these additional infos! - unbelievable how far we are "furniture-synchronized" around the globe. After renovating a former children's room I had to spend 2 afternoons at IKEA last month by now which is always a maximum punishment for me πŸ˜‰ and will only be surpassed by my wife's punishment if I do not join in πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„

                    never trust a skinny cook

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                    • BoxB Offline
                      Box
                      last edited by

                      I rang my Ex in Germany from inside Ikea Sydney and said, I think I'm in Dresden, can you come and get me before I lose the will to live.

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                        boofredlay
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                        These are fantastic. After using SU since v2 I have learned a couple new tricks this morning I never knew. Keep them going.

                        http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

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                          Box
                          last edited by

                          Ok, here is something a little different.
                          I was worried that I was relying on True bend too much and had forgotten how to model manually, so I made this as a test.
                          Top half is Truebend, bottom half is a manually constructed array of carefully scaled and positioned components.


                          HalfNHalf 00.jpg

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                            rv1974
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                            Box what do you use for screen grabbing?

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                            • BoxB Offline
                              Box
                              last edited by

                              For screen grabs I just use the basic win 10 tools.

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                                Box
                                last edited by

                                Here's a very basic one that people miss. using the Pie tool to create an endpoint on a face that you can snap to.
                                I've added two as they both show some slightly different bits.
                                Pie Infer.gif
                                Infer.gif

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                                • pilouP Offline
                                  pilou
                                  last edited by

                                  Tricky simplicity! πŸ€“

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

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                                  • BoxB Offline
                                    Box
                                    last edited by

                                    A quick cross vault with simple cleanup.


                                    Vault.gif

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                                    • HornOxxH Offline
                                      HornOxx
                                      last edited by

                                      πŸ‘ πŸ‘ a so good idea to start with the section geometry first - and again a smart approach that would not have occurred to me this way πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„

                                      never trust a skinny cook

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                                        pbacot
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                                        In regard to a recent help request--poster was trying to align pre-made barrel vaults and then make the groin work--just a lot of work. Great execution!

                                        MacOSX MojaveSketchUp Pro v19 Twilight v2 Thea v3 PowerCADD

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                                          HornOxx
                                          last edited by

                                          @pbacot said:

                                          In regard to a recent help request--poster was trying to align pre-made barrel vaults and then make the groin work--just a lot of work. Great execution!

                                          which exactly was my approach πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„ - and every time I see this little "boxys" πŸ˜‰ , I think "auaah, how obvious is that" and clap my forehead ! πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„ And if ever it will be introduced any unit for "prethinking", it will have to do with his name - quite certainly πŸ˜„ πŸ˜„

                                          never trust a skinny cook

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                                            Box
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                                            I thought this was a pretty straight forward approach, I had watched a few minutes of a ytube vid that the poster linked to and it drove me nuts. I've just looked at a variety of ytube tuts on this and realise my version is somewhat out of the ordinary. As with all things on the internet youtube tutorials are only as good as the person making them.

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