Curved Walls

Rudbeckia

@rudbeckia said:

@xrok1 said:

see if you can take it from here:

thank you so much, do you mind briefly explaining what you did?

well i've been trying to do this with no scripts, and it can easily be done, but alas i ran out of patience. so i use ToolsOnSurface to draw the arcs, then i used extrudelinetool to stretch it out ,using the top edge that you where trying to get rid of as a guide. then of course you took it from there, selecting everything, doing a intersect model and deleting the junk you don't want.

last question promise my toolsonsurface tool palatte does not have an arc tool, how are you drawing the arc on the curved surface and I am assuming extrudelinetool is a ruby I can download?

xrok1

@unknownuser said:

last question promise my toolsonsurface tool palatte does not have an arc tool, how are you drawing the arc on the curved surface and I am assuming extrudelinetool is a ruby I can download?

hey, no problem, i didn't mean to imply i was running out of patience with you. just with the file.

toolsonsurface ver1.31 the tool is circled in red.

extrudelinetool extrudelinetool.rb i don't know if i'm supposed to attach this, but it was free and i can't find where i got it from so...

PS, i would highly recommend you don't use SU without this http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=6708&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=extrude

pilou

All that can be made with only intersections of cylinders & tubes!

xrok1

Qui

Pilou, how's development going over at Moi, is there a public beta for ver.2 yet?

BTW, can you explain your moto i've always wondered WTF "Is beautiful that please without concept!", means.

Rudbeckia

@xrok1 said:

Qui

Pilou, how's development going over at Moi, is there a public beta for ver.2 yet?

BTW, can you explain your moto i've always wondered WTF "Is beautiful that please without concept!", means.

my tool on surface tool bar is not the same as yours?

xrok1

thats weird your jointpushpull tools aren't the same either?

are you sure you have the latest versions?

PS, did you notice you have like three sets of the same tools scattered all over the place?

Rudbeckia

@xrok1 said:

thats weird your jointpushpull tools aren't the same either?[attachment=1:1vez1evq]Capture.JPG[/attachment:1vez1evq]

are you sure you have the latest versions?

PS, did you notice you have like three sets of the same tools scattered all over the place?[attachment=0:1vez1evq]Capture2.JPG[/attachment:1vez1evq]

i got them from here http://www.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_arc_page.htm

i am new to SU ruby/plugin world, how do i know if i have the latest?

lol!!! i do have to many tools every where, i shall fix that

xrok1

don't make me come over there.

i use without CADfather icons
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=11212&p=76625#p76625

http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=6708&hilit=JointPushPull

Ecuadorian

@xrok1 said:

Pilou, how's development going over at Moi, is there a public beta for ver.2 yet?

I trolled the MoI forum the other day and noticed that Pilou is an ardent SketchUp evangelist over there. Regarding your question, it seems they've been in closed beta since September:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=004480280974618486967:rqgfj4-y60a&q=v2&sa=Search

xrok1

thanks, i've been anxiously awaiting ver.2 for a while now. i love the program it just needs a few more things to make me buy it. maybe ver.2

jeff hammond

@rudbeckia said:

not sure what he means by it not being clean geometry, looks clean to me

it's just random.. nothing really matches up.. there's no system.

sloppy:

clean:

curvedededed.skp

Rudbeckia

@unknownuser said:

@rudbeckia said:

not sure what he means by it not being clean geometry, looks clean to me

it's just random.. nothing really matches up.. there's no system.

sloppy:
[attachment=2:1wl1qjcn]sloppier.jpg[/attachment:1wl1qjcn]

clean:
[attachment=1:1wl1qjcn]cleaner.jpg[/attachment:1wl1qjcn]

that looks perfect!!!! which tools did you use for that, it looks great!

jeff hammond

i used the absolute basics.... circle/arc tool and line tool.. it's a bit of a process and i might draw up a tut for a small section of it...

i'm pretty sure a ruby can be made to accomplish this (fingers crossed) and that encouraged me to draw the whole shape.. i'll post a [REQ] in the ruby forum soon..

Rudbeckia

what is moi??

pilou

@unknownuser said:

what is moi?

"Moment of Inspiration" a Nurbs modeler who has same easy ergonomic than Sketchup (export in SKP format with an object mesher "Nurbs to polygons" so you can control the mesh! (few or more polygons, repartition,..etc)
Both progs are complementary
So you have the more funny of the 2 worlds Nurbs / Box Modeling with a zest of subdivision thx Whaat)

pilou

@unknownuser said:

About Moi

Yep there is yet a version 2.0 beta of the 19 January 2009
And yes these 2 progs Su + Moi are crazy and have the same easy use!

jeff hammond

here's a tutorial on how i did it... [use the scene tabs at the top to switch between steps]

and yeah, pilou has the right idea about taking the mesh outside of sketchup in order to bend it.. i do think a ruby would be possible for this type of model..

tutorial_curvedwall.skp

pilou

@unknownuser said:

the mesh outside of sketchup in order to bend it

No you can't easy bend it in a nurbs modeler! (in the new generations after many years of brain storming yes but it's like a perversion
Don't yet exist in Moi
Bend is a typical function of a "polymodeler"!
Here it's just one curve Extrude then Shell and trim by an inclined line

Rudbeckia

@unknownuser said:

here's a tutorial on how i did it... [use the scene tabs at the top to switch between steps]

and yeah, pilou has the right idea about taking the mesh outside of sketchup in order to bend it.. i do think a ruby would be possible for this type of model..

holy shit, thats awsome, thanks a ton!!! this forum is like my own private tutor

jeff hammond

@rudbeckia said:

holy shit, thats awsome, thanks a ton!!! this forum is like my own private tutor

ha, glad you liked it..

fwiw - that's still not quite right.. the curve at the top of the wall should be closer to vertical which would require making a custom arc for the base of the wall (the segments should get closer together horizontally as the wall gets taller.. i've done it the correct way a few times and it takes twice as long but this tut should be a good starting point.