[Tutorial > Modeling] A PoorFlatEllipsoidIndian Bowl

simon le bon

A post mostly for very beginners - - - - like me.

VERSION 2: "Entièrement revue et corrigée": March 09 2008

Based on the " How do I draw a bowl (or a dome)?"
of Google SketchUp Help Center
http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39070&topic=9050

I have found one or two things to keep in mind using SketchUp:

very often, helping yourself making temporary construction lines or shapes will drive you a simple way, with easy inferences, to the result you want.
In complexes drawings, putting those construction lines in a special layer is very efficient - at the end.

First stepFlatPot_v2_0.skp: DivShare File - FlatPot_v2_0.skp

(To go little bit more far)
Second One Ellipsoid Bowl_V2.skp:DivShare File - Ellipsoid Bowl_V2.skp

All comments on how do better or easier will be welcome. simonlebon

StarWarsKnower

Great tut, nothing i didnt know, but gave me ideas

simon le bon

You are right StarWarsKnower (thanks for this first and alone intervention)

This topic isn't in its good place. it should have been called "PoorIndianBowl: firsts steps with Sketchup" and it should have been referenced in Newbie Section.

Well, i'm thinking about certain extension to this drawing perhaps a bit more unknown.

Elsewhere it's an open topic, and everyone with good ideas to achieve this small exercise will be welcome..

slb

Voder Vocoder

Okay, Simon, here's a poor flat ellipsoid Indian bowl for you.

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-927c03a7.html

(I think 30 days is plenty.)

~Voder

simon le bon

Dear Voder, please to see you again.

Surely a better way: much easy and faster, but more importantly much more flexible. Ok! not so bad topic: we learn.

](http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/squat_bowl_vodervocoder.jpg)

PS Sorry to be heavy, i regret that your DataFileHost don't kept the files permanently:"Your files will be kept on our servers as long as it is downloaded every 30 days."

slb

Gaieus

Hi Folks,

Interesting and useful topic.

Just an addition to Voder's bowl: you can soften the dividing lines after painting them so that the bowl looks more "roundish" but still keeps the different colours in the pattern. It is especially useful if rendering in a 3rd party software (it would show any non-softened edges really aswul).

MALAISE

Hi Simon

Really good topic, and probably not a waste of time...

MALAISE

Gaieus

Hi Simon,

It's always a pleasure to read your posts, really! Good to see you around after such a relatively long time!

simon le bon

Gaieus, Malaise, I can't wait until my next post to reply for your kindness pleased me so.
I know myself as a spare time SketchUp user. But i can bring to this fine community my small stone, my energy, my curiosity and a little bit more maybe.. simon

MikeR

great tuts.....help me a lot to understand how S works.....just one question thou....if ever i want to put a hole on the rounded edges....how do i do that?? thanks....to the mods...pls move my post if im being OT

Gaieus

T cut a hole into a curved surface (in general), you will need to build a 3D shape the cross section of which will be the shape you want the hole to be, poke it through the curved surface, select both the curved surface and the 3D shape, right click > Intersect... > Selected. This will create the edges between the surface and the shape and you can simply erase all unwanted geometry (generally the leftover of your 3D, cutting shape and the cut-away piece of your curved surface).

Better understand by having a look at this tutorial - a little bit different example (not with a bowl) but the idea is the same.

MikeR

got it!!!big help thanks!!!

simon le bon

Monday, March 2nd.
After months I come back on this thread.

First, it's because the illuminating and simple Voder Vocoder's solution isn't available anymore on DataFileHost.
So here is a permanent link for his (SU6)skp:
squat_bowl_vodervocoder.skp
.
In addition i have made this screencast in order to easy show it.
[flash=545,430:21w5tec9]http://www.viddler.com/simple/50d17f9e/[/flash:21w5tec9]
http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/15/

re: Viddler videos are often hard to open. Given to the exceptional quality of it picture please don't give up: simply reload.. ;-)simon

Jean-Franco

Excellent !!!

Gaieus

Well, sometimes they DO load a bit harder (probably this depends on connection speed as well as server side bandwidth limitations) but I do like them for sure.

Maybe sometimes, when one opens the topic and many of the videos try to start streaming, it can be hard for internet connection.

simon le bon

If at the end of your KitoRaupp Pottery, you deselect ( Oups!) the spiral line you wanted (and needed) to remove, >> No Panic!!
Just take a look on this strange but very efficient new selection tool: "selected edges by defined angle", our frenchy Matt666 have developped in his last Selection Manager. It is specificaly a good tool to achieve the job ( to remove the spiral line) simon