Dryer Vent?

Pagan

Quit a chalange task,this video is just to get general idea,of course principle of making this could be expanded of adding more circle in tube,see a video to get idea.
I'm bad with making animation with SU so i made video.
I hope this would be useful.

8.6 MB avi

http://www.speedyshare.com/857246921.html

Gaieus

Nice one, Pagan, I was also thinking about a similar solution just thought that working with grouping and grouping already existing geometry may be faster. Also the advantages of using components...

Remember when you drew those little line segments to separate the geometry; you can use the Shift+Ctrl+Eraser tool to unsoften them a bit quicker.

dylan

Im loving your model chip, great work. Looking forward to seeing this progress.

chippwalters

Pagan, interesting technique, and one I sorta tried at first, but I had too difficult a time selecting the circle cross-section. I can't really see how you did it in the video. It appears you deleted the small line you drew, but I don't see how that selects the circular cross-section. I must be missing something...

Thanks for posting the video.

chippwalters

FWIW, I put up some more images in this series over in the gallery at:

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=4765

Pagan

Don't know did I understand your question correct.

chippwalters

OK, got it. Thanks. BTW, after you select the circle polygon, you can right-click on it and choose "Align Axis" then hit the 'S' button for scale, and you will end up with only 4 scale handles which are appropriately aligned, making it much easier to scale the circle polygon.

Thanks for the explanation. Good tips!

Pagan

@chippwalters said:

OK, got it. Thanks. BTW, after you select the circle polygon, you can right-click on it and choose "Align Axis" then hit the 'S' button for scale, and you will end up with only 4 scale handles which are appropriately aligned, making it much easier to scale the circle polygon.

Thanks for the explanation. Good tips!

That's good tip too: "Align Axis".

Thanks.

dylan

Thanks guys, that is a good little method I have not used before.

Masta Squidge

You have to remember though that a dryer vent like that is made up of a spiral not a series of circular wires. At least the one attached to my dryer is. Ive never seen one that is made up of single circles of wire embedded into the covering material.

On a side note that looks REALLY good.