sketchucation logo sketchucation
    • Login
    ℹ️ Licensed Extensions | FredoBatch, ElevationProfile, FredoSketch, LayOps, MatSim and Pic2Shape will require license from Sept 1st More Info

    Need Help on SPIRALOID SHAPE

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Newbie Forum
    sketchup
    25 Posts 9 Posters 4.2k Views 9 Watching
    Loading More Posts
    • Oldest to Newest
    • Newest to Oldest
    • Most Votes
    Reply
    • Reply as topic
    Log in to reply
    This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      K_tools.rb is what you need...

      404 Not Found

      favicon

      (www.crai.archi.fr)

      TIG

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • simon le bonS Offline
        simon le bon
        last edited by

          • -/ I feel Stupid - - -
            In the hurry i had taken first step smartsizer' shape to follow his purpose. Eureka the result was great. But there is a secret. We can't obtain this shape with a simple intersection with a plane. The top of the wall is shaped with two helicoidal lines. And how smartizer have did that: it's a mystery. Probably to discover in Ruby arcanes... Also my enthusiasm, under your eyes in the board has been driven to a flop . And my poor Horseshoe stair is still on the paper.

            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/NotsosimpleBalustre.jpg

        dear GreyHead and tig thanks for K_tools.rb (ha! K-Two). Now i need little work to understand how use it.

        http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/coquille.jpg

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
        • boofredlayB Offline
          boofredlay
          last edited by

          Sorry I have not read all of the posts in this but would the Spiralizer help you???

          301 Moved Permanently

          favicon

          (www.sketchucation.com)

          I am not sure you can get a flat top on it or not with the spiralizer but it is worth a try.

          http://www.coroflot.com/boofredlay

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • G Offline
            GreyHead
            last edited by

            @unknownuser said:

            under your eyes in the board has been driven to a flop
            😄 Keep going, I learn a lot by trying things out here and experimenting.

            As far as I can see Smartsizer did it by creating that grid of lines on each side and drawing in diagonals by hand.

            Bob

            PS I'll take a look at Spiraliser

            PPS I'm experimenting with a script to do some of this but it's slow work - a first script squeezed in odd moments. So far so good.
            ramp_1.jpg

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
            • simon le bonS Offline
              simon le bon
              last edited by

              It appears that you are probably right dear GreyHead. Smartsizer seems have drawn his diagonals by hand.

              http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/diagsdrawbyhand-1.jpg

              I haven't found the way to draw your volute with k-tools.

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • S Offline
                smartsizer
                last edited by

                Yes, the diagonals are drawn by hand. Details are shown in the Scenes in the attached skp. Scenes 24 and 25 illustrate a method I discovered to manipulate points in a mesh.


                HorseshoeStair tutorial.skp

                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                • G Offline
                  GreyHead
                  last edited by

                  My spiral was something like:
                  K2 Graphs | 2D-Graph polar r=f(p)
                  p-range from: 0.0 (default)
                  p-Range to: 25.132741 (i.e. 8*pi)
                  Stepwidth: 0.06283185 (default - 100 steps per turn)

                  r = p**2 (default)

                  Then scale down to a useful size.

                  Bob

                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                  • G Offline
                    GreyHead
                    last edited by

                    Bien fait ! Bravo !

                    Bob

                    PS You can get rid of those 'blue' segments at the bottom by selecting a 'white' area, right click and choose 'orient faces'.

                    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                    • simon le bonS Offline
                      simon le bon
                      last edited by

                      THAT'S IT!

                      @unknownuser said:

                      Here is my HORSESHOE STAIR with volute ramps.


                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/horseshoestair_Final3.jpg

                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/horseshoestair_Final4.jpg

                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/horseshoestair_Final5.jpg

                      The volute and the leading help of GreyHead, a working direction to follow by smartsizer, many mistakes repaired by fox hack, pair of things i haven't understood at all, and at last, still lot of hard handmade work!!

                      (as you can see here)

                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/intermediatVolute-2.jpg

                      http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/intermediatVolute_b.jpg

                      (if someone is interested by this laborious travel: DivShare File - HorseshoeStairFinal.skp

                      All my thanks (in order of apparition) to: Greyhead Gaieus smartsizer Tig Boofredlay. You where incredibly kind and perseverant by my side.

                      At the end, smartsizer have given us a so beautiful lesson of drawing: so many strong solutions HorseshoeStair tutorial.skp. It surely have to be sent as a single post on the How To section: for great advantage of everybody interested in Sketchup (and 3D) modeling.
                      . Well, for horseshoe stair, it's over. But i have another project i shall call "The Everythingcurved Stair". Just the good matter to take off with it.

                                       simonlebon
                      

                      .../...

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • Wo3DanW Offline
                        Wo3Dan
                        last edited by

                        Simon,

                        I see that you finished your horse shoe shaped stairs, resulting in a very nice model.
                        Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to what curved complex shape you have in mind now.

                        cheers,
                        Wo3Dan

                        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                        • V Offline
                          Voder Vocoder
                          last edited by

                          Here's another variation:

                          favicon

                          (www.datafilehost.com)

                          ~Voder

                          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                          • simon le bonS Offline
                            simon le bon
                            last edited by

                            Dear Voder Vocoder

                            WAHOUUU! what a pure splendid way to reach the end..

                            Lot of hand made too, as sculptor work, but with each step simple, beautiful..

                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/VoderVocoderSpiraloid2-1.jpg

                            http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj245/Spendauballet/SketchUp/VoderVocoderSpiraloid-1.jpg

                            How many ways left to do the job? This topic is becoming a Top Master Class lesson of drawing.... Happy!

                            PS: I allow me to put your VoderVocoder_HorseshoeStair SKP file on DivShare
                            To allow permanent access. Because with Data File Host:
                            "Your file is hosted forever as long as it gets downloaded at least one time every 30 days"

                            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • S Offline
                              smartsizer
                              last edited by

                              Voder---very nice!!

                              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                              • TaffGochT Offline
                                TaffGoch
                                last edited by

                                Simon,

                                When I stumbled across this image while web-surfing, I immediately recalled your discussion thread:

                                fig94.gif
                                This is a violin in-the-making. There are even more curved and 'dished/cupped' surfaces evident here. A prospective thought-provoker for your 'Everythingcurved Stair'?

                                Regards,
                                Taff

                                "Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

                                1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • simon le bonS Offline
                                  simon le bon
                                  last edited by

                                  Dear TaffGoch,

                                  Please to meet you. So kind to you for thinking about this topic and bring back from your surf this woodmaker volute. Appreciate a lot.
                                  Well, in another way, i cannot go back right now: i must do the job. This everythingcurved Stair is in my head. I just need further little time to work on tuts i found here and there on SFC before begin.

                                  slb

                                  1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                  • 1
                                  • 2
                                  • 2 / 2
                                  • First post
                                    Last post
                                  Buy SketchPlus
                                  Buy SUbD
                                  Buy WrapR
                                  Buy eBook
                                  Buy Modelur
                                  Buy Vertex Tools
                                  Buy SketchCuisine
                                  Buy FormFonts

                                  Advertisement