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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
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        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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          • BoxB Offline
            Box
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            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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            • R Offline
              rv1974
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              Box what do you use for screen grabbing?

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              • BoxB Offline
                Box
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                For screen grabs I just use the basic win 10 tools.

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                • BoxB Offline
                  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
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                    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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                        • pbacotP Offline
                          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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                          • HornOxxH Offline
                            HornOxx
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                            @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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                              • BoxB Offline
                                Box
                                last edited by

                                Here's one I did for someone who was trying to use shapebender on a real mess of nested components, shapebender would bend it but it took it several hours and made a huge and unwieldy file. This only uses a few components and they are all still linked.

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

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                                • cottyC Offline
                                  cotty
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                                  great! πŸ‘

                                  my SketchUp gallery

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                                  • pilouP Offline
                                    pilou
                                    last edited by

                                    Never thought or tried that a curve can be out the Edit Group for a following! πŸ‘

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

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                                    • HornOxxH Offline
                                      HornOxx
                                      last edited by

                                      @pilou said:

                                      Never thought or tried that a curve can be out the Edit Group for a following! πŸ‘
                                      😍 πŸ˜‰ πŸ˜† πŸ˜† same to me Pilou !!
                                      Again and again I am so amazed how many years it takes for me to discover all these "Eastereggs" πŸ˜„
                                      Thank you Box for this impressive example!

                                      never trust a skinny cook

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                                        Box
                                        last edited by

                                        But these things are not impressive, it's just the way the software works.
                                        If I posted the weird stuff...

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                                          Box
                                          last edited by

                                          Something a little festive.

                                          One of many ways to do this.


                                          Candy.gif

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                                          • ntxdaveN Offline
                                            ntxdave
                                            last edited by

                                            Another excellent and timely example. Thanks Box and hope you have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. πŸ‘

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