Hi, need help with modeling a stadium

solo

Hi gborregof and welcome to SCF.

I have never modelled one however i believe there are a few in the 3D warehouse that you could download and use to learn from. I am sure one of our members will jump in and give you help soon if that does not help.

johnsenior1973

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Here are all of my stadiums on 3D Warehouse. Stadiums are my favourite thing to build with Sketchup.

I'd say the best way to start is with the pitch. Then work from there. Are you designing your own stadium from scratch or do you want to take elements of existing grounds?

gborregof

sorry i'm new in this forum... how can i post images?? i tried with the upload attachment label but it didn't let me because of the size

solo

try scaling down to 700x...

remus

If you upload the images to a site like flickr and then link the to here using he [img] tag in the toolbar, that should work.

gborregof

ok... again

johnsenior1973

Just draw an outline of the stand, then use the follow me tool around the pitch and the stadium will be pretty much done.

cheffey

that's what i love about this forum.

I'm sitting here wondering how does he start with this thing, and JohnSenior clears it up with one sentence!

gborregof

thanks johnsenior.. i will try it tonight

cheffey:
i agree with you... i just signed in this forum, just asked about this and i already have the answer...

gborregof

i just need detail in some areas like the restaurant and the outside i might add some people on photoshop
here are some images of what i like to achieve...

gborregof

it is my own stadium, well a friend's proposal, he just gave me the stadium in .dwg files but i have no clue how to start modeling it, it has a kind of cone shape with some structure elements on the sides, i´ll attach some images, i hope they help me explain myself better.
sorry but my english

edit: remove images... they were big

gborregof

hi... this is what i have so far... i had problems with the follow me tool.. it wasn't closing the geometry.... it has to be done by tuesday night...

Gaieus

So far it looks quite OK I think. Did you turn those pillars into components and copied along that way?

gborregof

no i didn't.... i turn it into group... is that wrong?

Gaieus

Well, better than nothing

Components (when using more instances of the same component) have some advantages over groups:

the geometry is only counted once so the file size is smaller in general
when you make some changes in a component, all instances will change
you can use "dummy components" in a very complex model and only "reload" them with the final ones once you are ready with the model thus being able to handle big models etc.
This is particularly useful if you use many instances of the same geometry (pillars here or even more; seats in a stadium if you really want to model them - but that would most probably kill your computer)

gborregof

oh thanks! i've used created components before but here i didn't used because those are all the pillars i'm going to use... if it starts to get heavy i'll change them... thanks for the advice