Okay, I want to help

Platypus5

I have talked about it for a while. Now the time has come. I want to help. Tell me how to do it, and I will try my best. While my skills may be limited now, I think I am good at documentation, and may eventually come to understand the programming behind Sketchyphysics. (I have programmed basic flash games before.)

hobbnob

i wanna help too, but there isn't really any noobs around that are willing to be taught

FenS

Well,
if you are bored, you can help me

I am looking for a way to make sculpturing easier...
That is, i like sculpturing ofcourse and i am not talking about machinery that will complete the job for me (or hiring other people to do it), but i am looking for a way to make some drawings that will help me in my proces.

Let's see if i can explain what i am looking for.

Let's say i want to make this sculpture (which i already did):

then what i normaly do is take a piece of stone of the correct size, take some paper, draw the front on paper, cut it and draw it on one side of the stone and (reversed) on the back of the stone. There is no point in drawing it on the left and right because that part is removed in the next step:
i start removing all the stone outside my drawing until i have got something like this:

But now i do need the drawing on the left and (reversed) on the right but by now the stone is going forth and back so that drawing does not fit anymore. It should be larger than the original, but not just scaled!
The only thing i can do is improvise... drawing the picture that i could have used if i would have started on this side, cutting the drawing out of paper, holding it in front of me and try to draw the contour on the rock (my pencil going back and forth).
At this point i am again removing all the stone outside the drawing which results in this:

Now what i am looking for is some way of making this first, second (and maybe even more) drawings after i have created a model in SU that i like... can i then recreate the 2 drawings that i would have needed in the first place?
(In SU i am not starting with a cube and deleting what i don't need, so unfortunately it is not a matter of stopping at the right time and making prints)

I hope you understand what i am looking for...?
Like i said... if you are bored...

Platypus5

You are asking the wrong crowd. This subset of Sketchup does not always contain the most realistic modelers. We mostly focus on a self-built physics engine for the program. I would recomend asking on another forum here.

FenS

Hi Platypus5,

you are right and sorry for not removing my post,
in the meantime i have askes sort of like the same question somewhere else on the forum and got some worthwile responses.
Thanks,

Fred.