Nice technique Eric!!! Also, nice models Gidon!

That's a very cool trick though Eric, and very useful!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers,

- CraigD

lol, i like my internet anonymity...

I'm from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

the CANUSA highway (unless I'm mistaken) is the #95 in the USA and the #2 (recently renamed to the Queen Elizabeth 2) in Canada. Basically the highway goes from Mexico to the North West Territories, its pretty busy, and as close as you can get to a freeway in Alberta.

Beautiful fixture! Thanks!

poster-Vasthi

Eric,
That is very nice. It goes really well with the violin from Gully 😛

poster-Vasthi

@will03 said:

I'm curious, did you use the soapskin ruby plugin to make the body of this fine violin?

Sorry, Will, I almost missed the question.

No, it was pretty much hand-stitched.

Thanks,

-Gully

poster-Gully Foyle

bump

I did brand it. I had a custom brand made a few years back.
This is what it looks like, except with Eric Lay in the middle.
http://www.woodcop.com/ws_brandiron1.jpg

thanks...

Well you could always print a list with a thumbnail with dimensions on it. Or something.
Then again Ive never been much to organize... anything at all in fact.

wow thanks for the great info.. thanks a lot 😄

If you are looking for the new version of rps_texturewrite.rb, see this thread:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=1089&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Thank you Robin. 👍

@unknownuser said:

And yes my sock drawer is a mess actually.

That's why I only have two kinds of socks (but a lot of them): you don't need to organise them!
😄

Antonio,

If you have hidden lines (view menu) turned off and you select the geometry by the selection box (not triple clicking), you cannot make a mistake; only visible ("not hidden") lines will be selected in wireframe mode.

Thanks all! Howard Leslie, I think i'll try the bezier curve method to draw the edges and see what I get. I still haven't seen any tuts that allow control of the curve.
This would be an improvement in my curvy modeling skills if I can figure this one out.
understanding how to do more curvy things was one of my goals for thsi year 😄
I'm arware of the soapskins powers. It's the curve edge that I need to control and bezier just may give me that I hope.
My assumed method is as follows.

located columns in plan. draw columns as one line initially (to be line2cylinder later)at given length. tilt column to desired degree. rotate column to desired degree. connect tops of lines with bezier curve using one of the bezier scripts? after edges are designed used sopaskin (it's a beautiful thing!) to create mesh. smooth mesh.
Is this the way to execute? If I have missed something let me know. I'll try it when I have time tonight.

Soapskin

Once in awhile I find Jerry's method a better option that hiding the rest of the model. If I want to add details that would generate those tiny, non-filling faces, I'll copy the component and move that instance away from the rest of the model. I scale that instance up by a factor of 10 or 100 or something. Then I do the editing on the large version. The original instances of the component get the same treatment and even those tiny faces fill. When I'm finished with the editing, I delete the enlarged instance of the component. This is faster than scaling it back down andgetting it accurately placed.

Oh boy! That's a neat trick. Thank you.

Hi folks.

In my tutorial, if you use the Polygon Tool instead of the Circle Tool, you will save the unsmoothing step.

So it becomes a very quick octahedron drawing.

Just ideas.