Virtual chair
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You're RIGHT, Dave. I did it now.
It appears that this is a straight grain. I'll do the same thing with spiral and reverse-spiral (interlocked ?). reverse-spiral is from me. Is there others type of grains?. My ambition is to recognize any part of wood by its grain. Yet it will stay a hobby. Any suggestions?
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My suggestion would be to skip trying to draw wood gain in SketchUp. Your drawing doesn't actually show how the grain of the wood will be. It just shows the annular rings. Interlocking grain and other grain features would be very difficult to draw in SketchUp. Here's an example of a wood species that has interlocked grain.
Here's another.
If you can draw these in as SketchUp models, you'll be doing quite well.
If you want to learn about wood, and its grain, get some wood and look at it closely. Not all species create interlocking grain. Some species exhibit a wide variety of wood grain patterns. I think instead of drawing, I would search via Google for the huge amount of information that already exists.
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"skip trying" ? For sure no.
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I think I will initiate (later)a topic on wood grain. Because I have a 1000 questions about it. But not now, I am not yet bored with my chair. Any suggestions. What do you think Dave?
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This arrangement is made with clf_component_stringer plugin.
Thanks Chris.
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A newborn named: Larsen-Marough.
Please, I want the opinion of all pro woodworkers.thanks.
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Well, it's red.
How do you propose to build it? how high is the seat? It looks like it would be difficult to get out of without it tipping forward.
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Now it's green.
tipping forward: yes Dave, i've take into account this; the gravity centre i.e distribution of mass is (in theory)at the back making stability of the structure. But who knows?
Thanks to all.
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Please, is there nice wood textures all around? I found several but all are not well grained.
Yes, grain became a obsession for me.Thanks.
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http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=486
You should invest some time searching the forums as it has lots of user contributions regard wood images. But this link is a good place to start.
As for the chair.....rule#1
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You can go through the links here. I think you'll find some decent wood grain materials at some of those links. Arroway has some nice, high resolution wood grain images. It depends upon what you want, though. Do you want seamless or do you want extreme realism? Real wood grain isn't seamless. That will be more difficult to come up with, too.
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O'Brien, I have only a two-sided brain, and i've searched for a while, but seems that it's hidden somewhere. By the way what do you means by rule#1.
Thanks Dave for your support. I really appreciate.
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Is there a limitation on the dimensions of attached images?
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There is a limit on the size of the display window. I generally put my images on a web-based album and link to them in my post rather than uploading them here.
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@dave r said:
There is a limit on the size of the display window. I generally put my images on a web-based album and link to them in my post rather than uploading them here.
And that's why the forum ends up with no longer available images (that have been deleted on the 3rd party servers).
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True.
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Please, why, the images shrink ?
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Tnx for all.
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"may not be very practical" that what all woodworkers have said to me. I'll retouch it for sure.
Thanks.
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