Firewood and axe

Mannie

2 questions,
1 how to make firewood, probably easy to do i guess
2 and an axe probably less easy .

I want to make that for the cottage i am working on for the shed part of it.
Thanks in advance
M.

Gaieus

For the firewood: how about just simply making a triangle and extruding it to a 3D shape (chopped up version) or start with a circle for lazier farmers?

As for the axe, the best way I could imagine is inytersecting different shapes with some boolean operations.

Mannie

Not sure what you mean for the axe, but the firewood i guess i got now, thanks

Gaieus

Here is an image - what I did was:

drew a triangle and a rectangle attached to make the basic, 2D shape
PushPulled it up
drew a curved surface horizontally and positioned so that it went through the 3D shape
selected everything > Right click > Intersect...
then removed the extra (unneeded) geometry.
to make it easier, I copied and mirrored the part but there are other solutions, too.

Mannie

Thanks, not to sure i can do that but i will try it

Gaieus

I could have uploaded a "tutorial" like file as well but I've seen so far that you generally manage to do it yourself once you get a hint - and that's the best way to learn things IMO.

If you get stumped, I may give more hints

Click Draw

Hi Mannie,
Here is some firewood i just made. I just downloaded some textures for the other pages here...is this what your thinking?

Mannie

Well Yes that looks better then mine hihi .
Mine look more like pizza slices lol

ridix

Other way to do it is to make the pile as a single object. Here is my quick illustration:

I just grabbed woodpile picture and bark picture from the web and went from there.

Mannie

that looks nice to

Mannie

How do i close the open faces in this thingie ?

this is what i got to close

jim smith

Hi Mannie -

Thought you might like to see a really good axe and wood scene created by Urgen - his post from March 20, '08

Urgen-firewood[1].skp

Urgen-firewood[1].jpg

Mannie

That is a good scene yes. But i don't like using stuff that others made unless i get permission that is. I'm making free stuff for geek at play just to learn how this works

solo

I made one for you, it's a little poly expensive as I used some plugins to shape the handle and head.
The .skp has no textures, I will post with textures if you want but the texture are pretty kb heavy.

mannie axe1.skp

solo

Here is the .vob with textures, feel free to share it next door.

mannie axe.zip

Chris Fullmer

I think you're so used to converting in and out of any filetype imaginable Solo that you forgot that .vob is pretty useless outside of Vue Got it in something like say, .skp?

Chris

Mannie

Thanks, guess that will help. Gonna try that today

Mannie

@solo said:

Here is the .vob with textures, feel free to share it next door.

[attachment=0:rmr1bm7u]mannie axe.zip[/attachment:rmr1bm7u]

That's even better

Mannie

Guess it is allmost time to call it done. It could use more items in the shed but since i catch a nasty bug i'm not that patient and creative to come up with anything else to put there. I was going to try to make some plaster bags to put on the shelve but i guess people that want to use it can use that wharf clutter from cornucopia . The lantern i did of a tutorial on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S2CRbIjqlM

This is what i have in the shed part so far, axe is solo's axe by the way. just like to know what you all think of it so far for a newbie

Gaieus

Well, not really a plastic bag but with the scale tool you may be able to tweak it a bit:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=359576c82de003cf96907985b34a7ba3