PlayTime_02: Gothic Panel

simon le bon

The idea of this work comes from one of the (splendid) tuts of our DaveR on Fine WoodWorking.com named "More Complex Geometry in SketchUp by Dave Richards"

(see Dave's Posts+SketchUp Tutorials)- Thanks a lot Dave.
%(#BF0000)[2011/03/06: It seems that "More Complex Geometry in SketchUp" isn't available anymore
But you can take a great advantage of his new Tut:
SCF_Hayrake Dining Table

FineWoodWorking.com_ Stopped Curved Chamfers]

I possess by family a gothic buffet from Brittany (farwest country of France). It is not so old (about 1900/1910), but it was still made in the very old way to draw and shape. I'm afraid this way is forever lost right now..
So with my young knowledge of SU and the pretty help from DaveR, i have decided to try drawing one of its panels in my evenings spare time. (and a lot evenings were necessary, Hi!!).
This is the Buffet
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This is the Panel
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This is the result:

Additional pictures:
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C

D

E

I must say that i have lead with SU for the first time my (standard) personnal computer to it extrem limit. I have cleaned every unecessary hidden line (50% of the work), register every basic shape as a model,, and my pc don't move anymore: about 5 seconds to orbit the panel another way;; I'm afraid i have to buy a new one...

Dave R

Wow! Very nice work Simon. I like it very much.

I'm glad you found my tutorial useful.

Dave

boofredlay

Moved to tutorials.

Thanks for this Simon. Nice.

solo

Now thats awesome!!

Thanks for sharing.

remus

Thats very impressive simon. Your attention to detail is inspirational

Frederik

Excellent..!!
Thanks for sharing..!!

Jean-Franco

That's really a crazy work indeed ! But what a patience !
Thanks Simon to share it.
Great tutorial anyway.

justry

@simon le bon said:

-use eraser tool to select easily a bunch of lines:
Quick select edges using the eraser tool!

Wow!! I actually said something useful?!!

Great job simon. Looks perfect!

simon le bon

Dear all,

I am particularly touched by your comments that I have learned a lot from almost each of you along those last months

;-)slb

GreyHead

Fantastic piece of work, congratulations. I have a lit clos in the sous-sol but it's not as elegant as this.

Bob

PS and greeting from the far west of Bretagne !

simon le bon

Tips and ruby scripts i've used

You want a shape "on the floor" ?: Select it, Cut it (Ctrl+X), or Copy it (Ctrl+C), pickup the Move tool And Glue it (Ctrl+V) where you want: it's on the default floor..

-in cleaning job it's usefull to show hidden geometry

-you want a single shape in its 4 directions: put a construction point on it axis, select the shape, use rotate tool inferenced to this point, holding down Ctrl key to copy it,rotate it a quarter, and tape x3 in the VCB(value control box).

-it's difficult to work on multilevel lines, project them on a face with Didier Bur's Projection tools.

-use eraser tool to select easily a bunch of lines:
Quick select edges using the eraser tool!

-Cleaning is a really hard work, don't forget this technic:
Searching the better way to split a shape in two.

And with a very special thanks to our strong rubymakers who made so necessary additionnal tools to SketchUp: Here are the tools i have used in this work:

Weld v.3.0 by Rick Wilson
to fixe broken curves and make faces

Mirror_31.rb by TIG
Mirrors geometry at plane, line or point.

Arc Centerpoint by Jim
Right-click an arc or circle to insert its centerpoint into the model.

Construction Line Tool by Jim (so handy)

CurveStitcher v.2.2 by Rick Wilson
Create edges & faces between two selected curves

skin Version 2.2 D. Belvin
A tool that takes selected edges and connects them, weither they are a closed loop or not.

Dome 1.0 (for the pistil) by Frank Wiesner
constructs a dome based on a circle (and interior)

At last but not least: you can't pass over

Projection tools v6 by Didier Bur

Joint Push Pull - Visual Edition by Fredo6

Without forget (!)
Bezierspline Update 2.0 by Fedo6 (and additional Bezier Segmentor)
How much it is as an integral tools pack of SketchUp

What can i say more, just this: Dear SketchUp Community, you are so friendly, i like you.
Zigmünd the good.

simon le bon

Making of

The Grid
GP_TheGrid.skp DivShare__GP_TheGrid.skp

The Flower
DivShare__GP_TheFlower.skp

Flowers in the Grid
GP_FlowerIntheGrid.skp DivShare__GP_FlowerIntheGrid.skp

The DoubleEye
GP_TheDoubleEye.skp DivShare__GP_TheDoubleEye.skp

The Waread and the boxe
DivShare__GP_TheWaread.skp

The Panel
DivShare__GP_ThePanel.skp

The wooden panel
DivShare__GP_woodpanel.skp

simon le bon

Additional fun in gothic travel:

Have found this excellent tut from Jean Lemire on 3D Warehouse:
Arche gothique par Jean (Johnny) Lemire
;-)slb.

PKast

What an awesome tutorial. You really disected this well. Great work!

simon le bon

Goodmorning sketchy fellows. Jeudi 07 Août 2008

I'm on the road again.. for the "Central Panel" summer work.

My purpose is trying to deliver here a near of day by day step by step videotut.

For today i begin slow with just the challenge presentation: those two pictures.

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As i was watching it very acurrately, i felt very surprised to discover that this panel certainly belonged to an older (very older?) furniture. Not only the different veining of the wood, but the carved work is more refined craft, and more damaged. We can therefore imagine that the entire buffet was built around this recovered sculpture. This gives it an additional price to my eyes.

If someone is tempted by the exercise, here's the needed zip pictures pack.

Britain Kiki.zip

Tomorrow (hope to): find the hidden geometry

:-)simonlebon

pbacot

oh my.

Impressive. Can't wait to go through the tutorial. thanks!

Gaieus

Hi Simon,

Yes, it is fun and interesting! Looking forward to seeing how you advance.

Gaieus

Nice one, Simon! I see that you weren't a perfectionist while cleaning up the geometry but it gives the idea nicely.

simon le bon

Dear Gaieus,
I made this way, with a basic circle as a group and simple lines to refer on tools craftsmen were using in those times: ruler, T-square and compass, but no measuring instruments.

I made this way in mind to walk through there footprints. And i've drawn the canvas, just close to, to shaw with fun the idea was right.
I'm going right now to be extremely accurate to made the entire carved as shown in my avatar picture...

Going now to work on the next video, Simon.

Gaieus

@simon le bon said:

...With hope this long work has brought some fun and learn to some,

I definitely enjoyed it, Simon! Thanks!