Request for 44 gallon (55gall us) 200 litre drum
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I dont suppose anybody has some 'fuel containment system' components knocking about?
Finally scored a serious skippy job but budget and timeframe are tight. Unlike the brief, which as usual...etc.
Basically need a drum, a drum handling forklift attachment. A wheely bin would be very handy.
Am also puzzling about how to do the metal walk grid without blowing the polys.
Any help much appreciated, but am i asking too much? Perhaps I should bring out the plastic and try formfonts.
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Sorry Baz. I don't have any of the components you're after but as far as the grid goes, you might try breaking the grid down into a basic element, draw that as a component, hide the edges and then copy to make an array that'll fit the space. If you need an example, I have one I can send you.
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dave, yes, I would like to see the example, I don't get why hiding edges helps.
thanks,
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In this example the grid element is shown in the foreground. That element is a component which can be copied as many times as you like without making a huge impact on file size and no additional impact on poly count. By hiding the edges (and deleting the faces that don't show) the seam lines between components won't be visible.
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thanks dave, still puzzled tho i understand the hide edge and delete face strategy.
But if you have a component with say 6 faces and you copy it 100 times you still have 600 faces. How do components help that?
I grok how components reduce final file size but on screen they are all still in your face, so to speak
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@unknownuser said:
No Dave they look more like this.....[attachment=0:3hzvqoc3]<!-- ia0 -->drum2.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:3hzvqoc3]
Pink is nice, though.
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Barrels are pink in Canada?
Baz, I don't know enough of the details about how the info is fed through the video card but I find using components this way does improve my computer's performance. File size is certainly kept down by the use of components.
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Here's some stuff from a few years back -- forklift I downloaded (not a formfonts item) and some drums and racks I modeld from an actual storage installation.
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Here's one I made maybe.. a year ago. it's a bit smaller @ 76kb
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=12f73aad13ac53f57104cceeff1190e4
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@unknownuser said:
No Dave they look more like this.....[attachment=0:w3ba0kgf]<!-- ia0 -->drum2.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:w3ba0kgf]
Except for there is usually a bunch of us crowded around with a fire going inside it, trying to warm our hands. (It wasn't actually pink just glowing from the fire)
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You could go Old School . . . .
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Hey, thanks very much guys, good stuff, this will get me rolling.
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@solo said:
Another use for a 44 gallon drum.
Haha, I was soooo waiting for you to post something like this!
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you know. . .it could never work between us.
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Hi all;
I know it's not a 44 gallon drum but this 275 gallon water storage could be interesting for someone.
Daniel
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daniel, thanks for that, funnily enuf I'd just finished drawing one of these, in aussieland its a 1000litre bulk liquid container, anyway, made it into a component but every time I tried to load it into a drawing it crashed su. Sent a bugslat report and decided to let the gremlins win that one and deleted it throughly from my system and started again. The first one took me 35 minutes to draw. The second one (which of course came out better) took all of 10.
Damn Im getting good at this:).
It's attached, no detail, quick and nasty, but ok for this job.
Baz.Ps: had a site meeting yesterday, after a 45min safety induction.(I now know which way to run:) The engineering mob down there hadn't seen Su capabilities, tho they of course were au fait with cad and 3d and they'd heard of su, "oh yeah, that free program". (Thanks google! Would that be the free program thet I shelled out over 700 bucks for?) Btw, I got the job after one of the engineers d/loaded the free and realised it aint just software that gets the job done.
But they were v. impressed with the presentation aspects. Ie: after the serious design work is done,and it is very serious and inflammable, they still have to explain it to the men in suits and overalls who generally could'nt read a cad if it was inserted fundamentally. Su is perfect for walking the various stakeholders around the actual. su rocks!
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