Say it loud : I'm French and I'm proud!

leminilab

If it's not in V6, audience will be very few!

I think I didn't get that one...

And maybe with a simple Follow me it's possible to make something?

It's gotta be more complex than what I eventually did I think. But it's gotta be possible!
By the way, I think you may have had this question before but I never looked for an answer for I lack potential uses of this technique but how do you do your colorful patterns?

This definately makes your images pop. I think it's called style!

pilou

Colors are made directly inside Sketchup with the astonished New Age Peace and Love pluging
"Random Painter" by the funky rocker Chris Fullmer!
My hero!
Have fun with it!

PS

@unknownuser said:

If it's not in V6, audience will be very few!

I think I didn't get that one...

Yes, you have not but you can "save as V6" with last version that you use!
Very useful today when there are so many users' versions working in the same time!
V6, V7, V8, 2013 ...and future!
Some free or pro versions have many advantages that other have not!
Or new versions not installed!
My favoriste it the V6 ...so thanks by advance for the next time for other users...and me to save as V6!

leminilab

Thanks a lot! It really helps me a lot.

Box, I think it took me 3 minutes after I saw your wireframe to come up with something decent:

Just drew 3 lines and converted them to a classic Bezier (another French guy isn't it? ) curve, rotated/copy this curve 90 degrees, added 2 arcs with the arc tool and let Curviloft do the rest (What would I do without you Fredo6? (Could it be another French guy??? !)).

Here's the .skp in case someone would need it.

canopy.skp

leminilab

Thanks for the Random Painter plug-in!

I think Chris Fullmer actually is a super hero and he makes great watercolours too!

I updated my post with a v6 skp! Got it!

pilou

Yet loaded
See with attention my second image, it's a part of your file

gilles

Soap&Skin + Tools on surface/offset:

soap&skin.png

leminilab

@gilles said:

Soap&Skin + Tools on surface/offset:

Nice!

I get the tools on surface part pretty well but maybe you could share the steps you used to do this in Soapskin? Just to let me (and the other forum users too) know!

Thanks a lot for this already !

pilou

Seems to me that i have posted a very well docmented image about the SoapSkin Bubble!

Et en français qui plus est!

leminilab

@unknownuser said:

Seems to me that i have posted a very well docmented image about the SoapSkin Bubble!

Et en français qui plus est!

The doc is perfect but sometimes it's good to see how people are using such and such tools to achieve such result!

But the doc is perfect!
Merci l'ami!

gilles

tensile canopy:

create profiles

soap&skin

copies

explode copies

soft/smooth

Tools on surface/Draw offset contour on surface

paint.

Tensile-canopy-v6.skp.zip

leminilab

@gilles said:

tensile canopy:

create profiles

soap&skin

copies

explode copies

soft/smooth

Tools on surface/Draw offset contour on surface

paint.

Thanks a bunch!

pilou

You have also "Color by Z" by Chris Fullmer or "Color By" (more possibilities) By Sdmich
My 2 heroes!

DareDevil

Very very late to answer...

If "you're French and you're proud", just use a french plugin from one of the best french architectural tensile company : Ferrari sketch

The difference with Soap Skin & Bubble is the skin is linked to the vertex, not to border lines, so you dont have to draw hypothtic border.
The problem is still the top in the center of the tensile...

Krisidious

@daredevil said:

Very very late to answer...

If "you're French and you're proud", just use a french plugin from one of the best french architectural tensile company : Ferrari sketch

The difference with Soap Skin & Bubble is the skin is linked to the vertex, not to border lines, so you dont have to draw hypothtic border.
The problem is still the top in the center of the tensile...

Ferrari Sketch isn't Italian? How depressing...