Dramatic entrance and help required

benanderson

D'OH! Forgot to hit "notfy me of a reply".
So many replies and so little time :B

No idea...I also stumbled on the same problem when I modeled my dell laptop and I settled for a compromise. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ed35ed3a7c8824e5996bace9c8deb982&prevstart=0

I'll watch this thread maybe I'll get a solution for my laptop model too

Btw...welcome to SCF. Have a nice stay here ^_^

Sweet model! And thanks

@unknownuser said:

like this? only 2 sides made
[attachment=0:1ew1d1ur]23.jpg[/attachment:1ew1d1ur]

I tried that at first but then I ran into problems trying to get the rounded off corners. I could probably make 8-segmants and then join them all together in a very hack and slash way to get the result if all else fails.

And then their is always the option of going bananas with the move tool!

@unknownuser said:

Here's my suggestion using Artisan (or Sub Divide and Smooth)
[flash=600,480:1ew1d1ur]http://www.youtube.com/v/ckwgXqKH_uc[/flash:1ew1d1ur]

That looks like it would work, where can I download this plugin? I'll have a play about with it tonight when I get home.

@unknownuser said:

yet another suggestion here..
using the loft tool in curviloft set to 'bezier method2 respect tangency' along with the uniform B-splines from bezierSpline.rb..
[attachment=0:1ew1d1ur]computerBottomjh.skp[/attachment:1ew1d1ur]
[flash=700,555:1ew1d1ur]http://www.youtube.com/v/Xt_MffSkCEI?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0[/flash:1ew1d1ur]
http://youtu.be/Xt_MffSkCEI?hd=1

Beizer Curves would be a good way to get the weird angle the bevel of the laptop sits at. Its very steep, almost straight.

@dave r said:

Jeff, that's very good. I agree the corners probably aren't circular curves. I just used them for speed but would have used a Bezier curve instead. I did use a Bezier curve for the profiles, though. I used TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails and it went pretty quickly. I did three sides since all three have different widths.

re: the back face color. Makes you want to correct reversed faces, doesn't it?

Actually, on closer inspection, it has a radius of about 0.5cm on the bottom. You can see it when light hits of the bottom of the computer.

Rich O Brien

http://www.artisan4sketchup.com

Ther's a 15day trial but I recommend you buy it

benanderson

@unknownuser said:

http://www.artisan4sketchup.com
Ther's a 15day trial but I recommend you buy it

I'll give it a shot, I'm not that heavy a Sketchup user. Though given the exchange rate from $ to £ it might be worth it even if its just going to sit there best part of the year! haha

@karinagm said:

Mmmhhh I'm a bit late but here's how I've solved this in the past
[attachment=1:299w5w9d]bevels.skp[/attachment:299w5w9d]
[attachment=0:299w5w9d]bevel.jpg[/attachment:299w5w9d]

Ohh nice one Dave! faster than mine
Jeff, I liked the result but I can't watch youtoube from work
Nor whatever Rich is using.... flash maybe?

I have to miss half of the stuff posted in the forum due to restrictions in my pc
hate that

May I ask what tools you have used to do this?

KarinaGM

@unknownuser said:

May I ask what tools you have used to do this?

It is explained in the file I attached, but for the curves I used bezier spline, restricted to 8 segments per curve (the default is 20).
Push pull for the profiles and curviloft to join the resultants edges (the image attached to the message).

benanderson

@karinagm said:

@unknownuser said:

May I ask what tools you have used to do this?

It is explained in the file I attached, but for the curves I used bezier spline, restricted to 8 segments per curve (the default is 20).
Push pull for the profiles and curviloft to join the resultants edges (the image attached to the message).

Oh! I didn't realise it was in the file. My bad

gilles

an over way to do it with Scale Tool

bevel.skp

benanderson

@gilles said:

an over way to do it with Scale Tool

I was actually experimenting with that and getting some decent results, but it looks like ya beat me to the punch

gilles

I'm always trying to do it with native tools, instead of round corner follow me tool would do it but a little much time.

benanderson

@gilles said:

I'm always trying to do it with native tools, instead of round corner follow me tool would do it but a little much time.

I always try to use the native tools that come with software packages as well. I have no 3rd party plugins for my music software packages and use only the default toolset, with good results just to give an example.

solo

I believe that SU native tools should be used initially by noobs in order to see the scope of the product, plugins are there to expand the app further and they certainly do, but I maintain that one should only venture to plugins once they are fluent with the capabilities of the base product.