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    • boofredlayB Offline
      boofredlay
      last edited by

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

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      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

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      • G Offline
        GreyHead
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        @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

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        • simon le bonS Offline
          simon le bon
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          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.

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          • 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

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            • 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

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              • 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'.

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                • 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
                  

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                  • 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

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                      Voder Vocoder
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                      Here's another variation:

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                      ~Voder

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                      • simon le bonS Offline
                        simon le bon
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                        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"

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                        • S Offline
                          smartsizer
                          last edited by

                          Voder---very nice!!

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                          • 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

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                            • 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

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