Square Carnival Tent
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Hi, irwanwr:
Are you asking how to make a top with concave curvature on a square base? That curve would have "catenary" characteristics. First thought:
Make a cubic base. Make a circle near the peak. Make a profile from one of the corners to one of the vertices on the circle. The profile would be shaped like a lemon slice, with a chord and an arc. Use Follow Me. I have not done this, yet, so it may not work perfectly.
Alternatively, you may need to look at some plugins. Perhaps Fredo6's Curviloft.Edit: Since you posted in the Newbie forum, I am going to recommend that you try it with basic Sketchup tools to better understand the program before using a plugin.
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Taking Gaius' advice and walking before you can run (ie just using native SU tools...no Ruby Scripts...you learn faster that way) you can produce something like this by following the sequence of scenes in the attached file.
The sequence actually shows how to make a square tent, not a round one...but the sequence is exactly the same.
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I made a quickie. I made 1 side of the roof using TIGs Extrusion by Loft tool. And then just did rotate array to do the other 3 sides. Probably a million ways to do this. Good luck.
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Hi,
as David correctly said there are thousand paths. Here with the standard tool "Follow Me".
Charly
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Wow. . .the follow me tool! Who'da thought?
Here's a D'uh Moment!
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thank you all for those quick responses
i am sorry i just got online tonight though.
i did looking for suitable tools. tried Extrude Tools too, each one of them and not succesful
when i saw the Beta Curvy Loft post and see that skinning
, i thought i'd give it another try and it works. it's a miracle for me.
i did make some basic figures for it before i read these replies.
just like what Gaieus and especially David_H posted. and exactly like the one charly2008 showed.
thank you very much to all.love this community forum
PS: i've tried Extrude Tools over and again. but i think i still don't understand how it works.
Curvy Loft Skinning works fast with only making frame of edges (2 quarter of circles) and a click. -
@unknownuser said:
I made a quickie. I made 1 side of the roof using TIGs Extrusion by Loft tool. And then just did rotate array to do the other 3 sides. Probably a million ways to do this. Good luck.
i have tried that one too. with no luck. still don't understand how it works. i've read and tried to learn the post on Extrude Tools many times, trying to figure how it works.
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@alan fraser said:
The sequence actually shows how to make a square tent, not a round one...but the sequence is exactly the same.
i have some questions on the scenes. how to:
- copy the curve?
- "stitch" the nodes?
- copy the 1st face to adjacent sides?
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@unknownuser said:
Wow. . .the follow me tool! Who'da thought?
Here's a D'uh Moment!
yes, it didn't come across my mind
especially because the base is square.
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i didn't succeed using follow me tool either.
this is what i made using curvy loft.
i don't know how to attach the skp file yet.
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You must learn follow me. Always learn to walk before run. The tent looks good however.
@irwanwr said:
i don't know how to attach the skp file yet.
See below...
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@gaieus said:
You must learn follow me. Always learn to walk before run. The tent looks good however.
thank you. i'll learn the tool again.
actually, in the first place i was looking for a plugin that able to make the physic looks on the tent cover surface. the tent cover should have straight diagonal frame. but the surface in the middle of each side should be a bit lower. i need to learn and practice more sketchup i guess. thank you again Gaieus.
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Ah! more like a party gazebo. I wouldn't bother making the fabric sag in the middle of the sides (although it would sag in the middle of the roof ridges, as youve already done)...but I would round some of the edges a little. After all, the fabric will roll gently over the poles, not form razor sharp creases.
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@alan fraser said:
Ah! more like a party gazebo. I wouldn't bother making the fabric sag in the middle of the sides (although it would sag in the middle of the roof ridges, as youve already done)...but I would round some of the edges a little. After all, the fabric will roll gently over the poles, not form razor sharp creases.
yes, thank you for reminding me about the round corner
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Hi Irwan, hi folks.
The Follow me tool needs two things:
1 - A facethat will follow a path.
2 - A paththat the face will follow.A faceis any closed flat shape delimited by connected edges and is coplanar (of course since it is flat).
A pathis made of any number of connected edges.
Another important thing is that the facemust be perpendicular to the first edge of the path. If the faceis not perpendicular to the first segment of the path, the facewill be projected on a plane perpendicular to the first segment of the path. This will cause a scaling which may prove detrimental to the wanted result.
The Follow me tool works in two ways.
1 - Manual follow
1.1 - Click on the Follow me tool to select it
1.2 - Click on the face.
1.3 - Follow the pathsegment per segment.
1.4 - Click to finish when the face is at the end of the last segment of the path.2 - Automatic follow
2.1 - Select the whole path. Use whatever selection method you want.
2.2 - Select the Follow me tool. The pathwill get deselected, don't bother.
2.3 - Click once on the face.This last method is very efficient and super quick to lathean object around a circle, for example.
In the example shown in my previous file, I use the perimeter of the horizontal square as the pathand the vertical shape as a faceand I latheit around the square path.
Don't worry if you select a pathwith a double click on a face enclosed by this path. Only the perimeter will be used by the Follow me tool.
Just ideas.
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Jean Lemire
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here's my homework on Follow Me tool (thank you Jean and all others).
the second on the left have significant larger size than the earlier. is it probably because there are more geometry on the tent cover after using Round Corner plugin?
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