Wood Carvings
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Good day to you all!
I have currently been designing furniture for some of my fathers clients and I've been interested in stepping up my skills and wondered if anyone could point me in the direction for creating wood carvings, whether sketchup is the right program for the job I am not sure!
Just for an example, would something like this be possible?
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For a such stylised form with any doubt you can make it with Sketchup!
Dave the wood specialist will give you some advices!
Curviloft can be your friendTake a look here for some easy curvated curves
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and if you have some lines maybe Toposhaper can help you!
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or this tricky Soap skin Bubble
Of course you can subdivide the result with something like Artisan
For the technic
- Selected a closed curve 3D welded
- Press Skin Enter number of Division: 10
- Press Enter twice
- Group is created
- Select it
Press icon Bub and Enter Presure +- 100
You can enter a tensile ratio after select a group: Ratio : 1
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If y'all figure out a great way of doing this then I'd like to also get in the action, I need one for CNC.
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You can also make that with scratch from an image in level of grey!
BitMap to mesh by Thomthom
By Dave
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Pilou, thanks for the vote of confidence.
I've thought about drawing this kind of thing in SketchUp before. I'm not sure it would be worth the work the resultant hit to performance due to the huge amount of geometry required.
Pete, it would seem to me that for your application a gray scale height map would be the way to go.
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You could take a look at Simon le Bon's tutorial on Gothic panels:
http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=9781&p=62185&hilit=gothic+panels#p62185
Regards,
Bob
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