Leg for chair

Gaieus

I think this TaperMaker plugin could help you with those shapes. You need to draw the path and apply the plugin. It works somewhat like the Follow me tool except you can give a value by which it will be "thinning".

GLB

Yes, seems interesting, I'll try and let you know the result, thanks

GLB

I did try the TapeMaker plugin, but couldn't find the way how to use my own profile for such leg ? If I use the ready made shapes, then how can I make the edges in fan shapes. Per attached the profile of leg I want to use. Thanks for your comments

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Dave R

I think I could draw something like that. I'll do up a tutorial and post it.

boofredlay

Ok GLB, I made a tutorial here:
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18573

Hope it helps.

(Beat you Dave )

Dave R

Nevermind.

Good work Eric.

xrok1

push\pull your shape, scale one end, then use shapebender; viola!

xrok1

boofredlay

What does the mesh look like?

xrok1

Dave R

Xrok's method is the method I was going to show. Works slick.

Curved Leg.png.jpg

boofredlay

Yep, that works great as well. I just wonder about how much control you have if it needs to be precise.
I guess I am just a traditionalist

Dave R

If you place the line and curve properly, I think this would be an accurate method. It's certainly fast.

xrok1

yes, i think any method is as accurate as you care to make it. (unless you can create a random curve )

GLB

Many thanks to all of you, especially Eric with his great and clear tutorial.
I do think that shape bender is the quickest solution but it seems that I have some problem with such plugin because cannot get any final result, maybe there's a bug ?
So, I'll go back to work now and try to finalize such leg !

Chris Fullmer

There definitly bugs in the script, but they shouldn't keep it from working. I can you figure out whats wrong with it if you want,

Chris

watkins

Further to another thread, perhaps someone (David?) could make a tutorial showing how shape bender may be used to make the complex shape of the chair leg.

Regards,
Bob

Dave R

Dear Bob,

Were you referring to me? Would something like this work?

Cheers,

Dave

watkins

Dear David,

Exactly! As I said in another thread (http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=180&t=18210&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=120#p151205), Shape Bender is almost a loft tool, and so the more examples we have of its use the better.

Kind regards,
Bob

Now, I had better go look at that video tutorial, hadn't I.

GLB

Hi Chris,

Thanks again for your help, for the time being it seems to work quite without any problem except maybe it's not that fast but I really need to "clean" my labtop first.