Joining round to square

[hellnbak]

Dang, that looks too easy! (gotta have something to complain about)

Thanks much

[Dave R]

Well complain about the weather, then. It's too damn cold and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

[hellnbak]

Sure there is

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[Dave R]

At least there are no man-eating snakes here.

[Gaieus]

Well, today it was so "hot" (okay warm) here that I ws already expecting the almond trees to start blossoming. I was out in a single T-shirt and a thin jacket but sweating like a horse after shopping.

[hellnbak]

hope you got sunburned

[hellnbak]

we're expecting up to two feet of the white crap today and tomorrow

[Dave R]

Well, we don't have that much and you can still see the grass in some places under the ice we got on Sunday but It's like 2 degrees F with a windchill of -28 or something. Supposed to be -15 or something tonight with even lower windchill.

[jeff hammond]

maybe more difficult to learn at first in curviloft but a faster method once you figure it out is to use the loft option in curviloft..

you wouldn't need profile splines to do it this way..

select the square and the circle
choose loft (first icon in curviloft)
choose one of the bezier options for 'spline method'
click on the black preview loft which will open a separate options panel
adjust tension accordingly (increase segments as well for a smoother transition if needed)

doing it like that also allows you to rapidly explore different blends via the tension controls as opposed to being stuck with the manually drawn profiles then needing to start over if you don't like it..

[gilles]

I would have made this.

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[jeff hammond]

@gilles said:

I would have made this.

oh.. right.. that's how it really looks anyway.. especially if it were lathed..

[gilles]

I think they were.

[Dave R]

That is indeed more correct, Gilles.

Lathed? Turned on a lathe. In woodworking, anyway, "lathe" is a noun.

[jeff hammond]

@dave r said:

That is indeed more correct, Gilles.

Lathed? Turned on a lathe. In woodworking, anyway, "lathe" is a noun.

yeah.. i think lathed would mean 'applied laths' maybe? in which case, the wheelbarrow handles were more likely than not-- not lathed!

edit- funny thing though.. i typed 'turned' then deleted it because i thought that might be confusing to some..
turns out, my replacement is wrong

[pilou]

Maybe with this

[jeff hammond]

@unknownuser said:

Maybe with this

nah.. hnb is looking for round to square.. not round to hexagon
;/

[hellnbak]

I really appreciate all the suggestions. Don't know why I didn't think of Gilles idea, seems obvious now. In the meantime I ended up just doing it quick and dirty. It's just an old wheelbarrow, and will only be used as "set dressing" for a larger model, so it won't need to stand up to close scrutiny.

It just bugged me that I couldn't think of how to do something so simple. Gotta tackle that Curviloft plugin someday. Someday.
Thanks again

[livemixer]

@dave r said:

Lathed? Turned on a lathe. In woodworking, anyway, "lathe" is a noun.

At least according to the several U.S. English dictionaries I checked, it is both a noun & a transitive verb. See for instance http://www.thefreedictionary.com/lathe.

[pilou]

@unknownuser said:

nah.. hnb is looking for round to square.. not round to hexagon

Just use adapted one!

[Dave R]

@livemixer: Sure, it's in the dictionary as such but I don't know of any self-respecting woodworker who would say or write, "I went out to the shop today and lathed a set of table legs." Of course that's kind of odd because you might plane a board or bandsaw those table legs.