Table cloth made easy [Tutorial]

solo

There are many ways to make a cloth drape over a table, none are very easy with SU, however with our new shiny tool in our arsenal of plugins such tasks just got easier.

I have not the patience to make detailed tutorials so please excuse this crude and rather hasty one.

make your table cloth base form.

Make the basic shapes for the draping.

Clean bottom edges and make it a group

Using 'Subdivide and smooth' 2 iterations.

Using 'crease' tool on edges and vertices to "stretch" table top surfaces

remove 'proxy' and clean up.

Make table.

Position cloth over table

texture and complete

(I could have spent more time lining my textures up but hey...)

Daniel S

Great tutorial!!!
A tip: you can use the crease tool without making the group in step 3. Use directly the crease tool on the ungrouped geometry and then use subdivide and smooth. So you don´t create the proxy for removing it later.

Daniel S

solo

Thanks, never tried it that way.

Here is for a more detailed draping, using the scale tool to manipulate the mesh further.

kwistenbiebel

Wonderful tutorial Pete, and a great showcase of what Subdivide and Smooth is capable of.
Have you tried modeling human figures by using smootsub?

solo

Thanks Chris.

Not yet, I really have not had much time to play with it yet, I hope this weekend to maybe try model a few characters, maybe some cartoon characters this time.

JClements

Great Job.

How many faces did the table cloth end up with?

boofredlay

Great tut Pete. Thanks. I also hope to play with it soon as I have not even had the time to get it yet.

Frederik

Excellent tutorial..!!
Thanks, Pete..!!

Whaat

@daniel s said:

Great tutorial!!!
A tip: you can use the crease tool without making the group in step 3. Use directly the crease tool on the ungrouped geometry and then use subdivide and smooth. So you don´t create the proxy for removing it later.

Daniel S

You can also crease all of the edges and vertices of a face at once by selecting the face and then selecting Tools->Subdivide and Smooth->Crease Selection->Edges and Vertices

Great tut, Solo! I am excited to see what you will create with this plugin!

MALAISE

really great tutorial

MALAISE from FRANCE

pav_3j

firstly, thanks for a great tut, going to have to buy the plugin now for sure.

secondly solo, just how many plugins ans icons to you have opn in sketchup.
i have never seem antyhing like it! i though i had a lot in the toolbar, but that is a whole new level!

ha ha

pav

Mike Lucey

Nice one Pete, well done. I'm still in learning curve when it
comes to table clothes

Mike

mateo soletic

Thanks Pete, great one

dylan

Nice tut Pete. The table cloth looks excellent.

tinanne

@pav_3j said:

firstly, thanks for a great tut, going to have to buy the plugin now for sure.

secondly solo, just how many plugins ans icons to you have opn in sketchup.
i have never seem antyhing like it! i though i had a lot in the toolbar, but that is a whole new level!

ha ha

pav

LOL, I KNOW! Man, I need a bigger monitor....

Great tut, Pete

solo

John,

I hope this helps, and the .skp is 271kb

cheffey

showed this to my wife and was able to talk her into buying me this plugin.

thanks solo!

solo

Glad I could help, you won't regret it.

Whaat

Another good one Solo. Thanks!

david_h

okay .. .Im the dummy. How do you delete the Proxy sans deleting the sub- smurf?