Invitation to the SketchUcation collection

Hazza

No they are not mine, but they look to be well drawn.

They are all well made models, sadly all but one of the models fail the criteria. Almost all of them have several pieces of wood as a single component.

The model pages don't allow me to contact the owner but one had their web site so I can send them an e-mail. I will ask their permission to fix the minor errors that stop them being included.

Hazza

@hazza said:

I will ask their permission to fix the minor errors that stop them being included.

I have e-mailed the original modeller and he said I can do what I want with them. I have only done 4 models so far but I have seperated each piece of wood so that they are individual components.

Dave R

Hazza, I'm curious. What is your intended use for these models? I agree that there's a lot of poorly modeled stuff in the 3D Warehouse. What is the goal of your collection here?

Nearly every piece of furniture I draw is drawn accurately and most all the pieces that would be made in wood are drawn as separate components. If I plan to build the piece or I'm drawing for someone else who will build it, all joinery is drawn, too. While drawing the furniture this way I work hard to keep file size to a minimum. Well, it really isn't very difficult if one uses proper management methods. I don't know that many of my models would be much use to others especially if the need is for furniture to fill rooms.

Hazza

@dave r said:

Hazza, I'm curious. What is your intended use for these models?

A little background:
I work 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off on a defence contract. I am an electronics technician, if the site is running then we don't have much to do the 12 hours a day that we work. My intention for these models is to make them the best possible models as I can, to occupy my time.

@dave r said:

I agree that there's a lot of poorly modeled stuff in the 3D Warehouse. What is the goal of your collection here?

The warehouse sets no standard, the goal is to raise the bar to be included in the collection. Sharing knowledge with each other on how to improve the models submitted. For example, how did you change the orientation of the wood grain on my bird feeder model? You missed one and I want to try it myself

Dave R

Sort of a Maytag Repairman, huh? My job is like that sometimes, too.

Which axis did I miss?

To change the axis orientation of a component, right click on the component and choose Change Axes. Click at the origin then along the desired red direction and finally along the green direction. BLue takes care of itself.
21-bird-feeder.skp

Hazza

@dave r said:

Which axis did I miss?

If I am understanding you correctly you are saying to change the texture direction you have to change the axis orientation?

Dave R

No. That's not it att all. Texture orientation is initially determined by the axis orientation of the component but one doesn't need to change the axis orientation to change the texture orientation. I did leave the orientation on one face of the long tray side component turned 90°. I actually did that so you would notice I corrected the other faces. All of the axes were oriented correctly, though.

The key components that needed axis alignment were the ones placed at angles. The roof and glass pieces primarily. The hinge leaves didn't because they must have been drawn flaf and then moved into place

Hazza

For those that are following along at home, I worked out how to change the orientation of the texture so that the grain of the wood runs along instead of across:

Edit the component.
Select the face that you want to change the texture orientation.
Right click it.
Select "Texture -> Position"
Click and drag the green circle 90 degrees.
Click outside the area to close the texture orientation tool.
Go to 2 for all faces that need changing.
Close the component.

Dave R

If you want to turn the texture 90° (or 180° or 270°) you could right click at step 5, click on Rotate and choose the angle from the menu.

Hazza

Is there a script that would allow you to right click once and select "Rotate material 90 degrees" instead of having to right click it twice?

Dave R

Not that I'm aware of. If you correct the alignment immediately before applying the material to faces in other components, you can use the eyedropper to sample the material and get the alignment done properly.

SchreiberBike

Hazza,

You are right about the widely varying quality in the warehouse. A select list has possibilities.

Here are a couple which I think would meet your criteria. I often do a model with full joinery, then do a simplified version which could be used as a component in another model. I'm also very interested in critical feedback in order to learn to model and design better.

Frank Lloyd Write Lamp
Full detail: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=18809736617cbe7e4326824bb7387d70
Simplified: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=5abda7d039ec115b72349ee87c19f053&ct=mdrm and http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ff479dddbb48197aea61e619272daaca&ct=mdrm

The workbench I'm trying to get finished.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ecb23fa93ef7ea58fe4e85d9b619cbad

A study for a carved walking stick.
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f8f977a3da859f4097046e48d8f1e936

A bunch of shaving horses in varying levels of detail.
design by Roy Underhill: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=148b2dfb4528637c3b2e33f081a6a142
design by Drew Langsner: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b91c7fb48520572997046e48d8f1e936
design by Richard Burton: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e8edc210a6a5155997046e48d8f1e936
design by John Alexander: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8f4a4436ce431db97046e48d8f1e936
design by Brian Boggs/Lie Nielsen: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=8edddcdd3d53628697046e48d8f1e936
And a study which does not meet your criteria at all, but which has been very useful to me in planning a shaving horse design:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=67ca271cb7cf77013b2e33f081a6a142

Many more at http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?uq=18231480013402454788 . Not all are woodworking projects, but there are many which could be useful to woodworkers.

Hazza

Great news, Google has added a new feature to the 3D warehouse. You can add collaborators for a model or even a collection. I am opening up the "SketchUcation Woodworking" collection to anyone that wants in.

Send me a PM with your e-mail address and I will add you as a collaborator. Collaborators are be able to add models to the collection.

This additional feature is a step towards my vision of this woodworking collection being "owned" by the SU community.

Gaieus

Note that you need to have a Google account for this and you need to send that email address to Hazza so that he invite you as collaborators.

Also, there is a limited number of changes you can make and to which you can revert your collection, so from time to time "purge" older changes from the History tab.

Happy collecting!

Hazza, be careful with the permission settings!

Sawduster

Here is a Neo-Queen Anne Tall Chest

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=86626522ac11ff5db5938fd07069cd50

ktkoh

I need some help on uploading files to the 3d warehouse. I have some furniture models that I saved as kmz files but when I tried to upload one it gives me an error message that there needs to be at least one model in the file to upload.

Any ideas what I am missing?? JillsBed.kmz
Keith

Hazza

What is a kmz file? What program did you use to create it?

3D warehouse only lets you upload SketchUp models.

Gaieus

kmz is the file type SU creates from a model for Google Earth. From SU you can only upload kmz files however on the front page of the WareHouse you can directly upload kmz files as well. But you cannot use them in SU later so unfortunately it would no be help for SU modelers.

Hazza

The last 4 links take you to the same model.

ktkoh

Thanks for the help loading models to the 3d warehouse.

Here are the models I uploaded there are some that don't show the full joint detail as I have been using loose tenons and sometimes add this as I build in the shop. Otherwise all parts are components and to scale.

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=200fe2e2486a0ddf85c5f690e9252fc5
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c9dd43888905630285c5f690e9252fc5
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3357d112432da01b85c5f690e9252fc5
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=509d9d137fd7465a85c5f690e9252fc5
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f006ed79465eb37a85c5f690e9252fc5
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=754372e400efa8a485c5f690e9252fc5

Thanks for looking
Keith