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    • R Offline
      redinhawaii
      last edited by

      An example of roofs Picture 118.pngI can get the shape with soap skin ruby, I need to model the rafters,
      I did this portion by hand, is there an easier way to make the rafters, then automatically rotate them as needed to fit to this
      hyperbolic shape?Picture 117.pngPicture 116.pngWhat I seek to model.

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      • jeff hammondJ Offline
        jeff hammond
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        hi red.. see the video for one fairly simple method

        [flash=853,505:2twcgaum]http://www.youtube.com/v/BjMYzPW4GIg?fs=1&hl=en_US&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6[/flash:2twcgaum]

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        • Dave RD Offline
          Dave R
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          Another great method, Jeff.

          For free you could use Chris Fullmer's Perpendicular Face Tools to put a copy of the rafter section at the end of each line and use either Follow Me or Push/Pull to extrude them. Maybe not as fast but...

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            redinhawaii
            last edited by

            Jeff,
            I want to thank you so very much for this expert reply, I am amazed at the concise and clear explanation on how to do this,
            I am really impressed. Thanks.
            I got a lot of learning to do, and some model making.

            Very supportive insightful reply.
            You time and effort is most appreciated.

            aloha
            red

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            • jeff hammondJ Offline
              jeff hammond
              last edited by

              @redinhawaii said:

              Jeff,
              I want to thank you so very much for this expert reply, I am amazed at the concise and clear explanation on how to do this,
              I am really impressed. Thanks.
              I got a lot of learning to do, and some model making.

              Very supportive insightful reply.
              You time and effort is most appreciated.

              aloha
              red

              glad it helped..

              "You time and effort is most appreciated."

              the thing with these videos is that they're actually very short to make πŸ˜‰
              in the past, i've tried to do step by step skp's but they end up taking an hour or two just to type up and they're still not really clear.
              i'd rather just point at something and talk about it πŸ˜„

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              • O Offline
                otb designworks
                last edited by

                Hey Jeff, great video, thanks for that!

                What screen capture software are you using? I have been using Screenium for a while now and it seems like your motion is smoother than what I am doing. What I really liked about Screenium was that I could make a custom window at a specified resolution and then place that window anywhere on either of my monitors. Super handy as I make all my animations 720p and having my screen captures the same size helps a ton when I get to video editing in Final Cut.

                Thanks again

                Cheers, Chuck

                OTB Designworks is on Youtube

                6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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                • bmikeB Offline
                  bmike
                  last edited by

                  Nice. Thanks for the vid!

                  mike beganyi design + consulting llc

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                  • jeff hammondJ Offline
                    jeff hammond
                    last edited by

                    chuck,
                    i use iShowU
                    http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ishowuhd/main.html

                    i demoed this and screenium at the same time (when screenium was still in beta) but ishowu won.

                    it does what you're talking about with the custom sized window that can be placed anywhere you'd like. (though i just use the presets.. this one is the youtube HD 720p preset). the pro version has some integration with Final cut but i'm not sure what exactly that means as i have neither the pro version or final cut πŸ˜„

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                    • O Offline
                      otb designworks
                      last edited by

                      Yeah, I tried ishowu as well; I can't remember why I went with Screenium instead. Thanks for the info.

                      ***thread hijack off ***

                      Cheers, Chuck

                      OTB Designworks is on Youtube

                      6 core nMP, 32 gig RAM, (2) D700 GPU's, dual monitors

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