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]

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[boofredlay]

What does the mesh look like?

[xrok1]

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[Dave R]

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

[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.