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    • Rich O BrienR Offline
      Rich O Brien Moderator
      last edited by

      Sorry, here's a v8 version of the file...

      Space truss-v8.skp

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      • M Offline
        Mike91
        last edited by

        Thank you again for helping.
        The problem is that i need squares of about 1 meter x 1 meter and I can't seem to get that with curviloft.
        Plus with curviloft i get that circle on the top as you've made.
        I've also tried to make a plane with the 1x1 meter grid and then curved it so that it would fit my surface but I wasn't able to do it.

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        • gillesG Offline
          gilles
          last edited by

          This could be a first step:

          slicer5 from TIG in extension store.

          " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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          • Rich O BrienR Offline
            Rich O Brien Moderator
            last edited by

            Gilles just svaed the day. Nice approach!


            screen-grab_065.jpg

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            • gillesG Offline
              gilles
              last edited by

              Lot of work after this to make a decent modelโ€ฆ

              " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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              • M Offline
                Mike91
                last edited by

                Thank you very much! I'll download and try tomorrow. It's definitely a lot of work but I need it in order to make an architecture collage on photoshop to show a view of the interior and exterior.

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                • M Offline
                  Mike91
                  last edited by

                  I've tried your method and I now have the surface with mostly regular quads.
                  I now have to make "pyramids" on top of them in order to have the final space truss to transform into tubes.
                  I've started to do that on a face but I'm struggling to get the vertical line to the single face in order to than make the four lines that reach the four vertices in order to make the pyramid. Also is there a way to automatically transform all those quad faces into pyramids with a 1 meters by 1 meters base(the one already existing in the mesh) and a 0.5 meters height? I've tried the s4u to component but can't make it work...

                  Thank you very much for helping!


                  Space truss.skp

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                  • gillesG Offline
                    gilles
                    last edited by

                    Ok, let's have a more simple workflow:


                    Find the center of the arc


                    create a comp and copy/array


                    copy/array on the other side


                    erase unwanted


                    Spacetruss.skp

                    " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                    • M Offline
                      Mike91
                      last edited by

                      Wow! I can't thank you enough, I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!

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                      • gillesG Offline
                        gilles
                        last edited by

                        The model is far from perfect, so do one by yourself if you want good results.

                        " c'est curieux chez les marins ce besoin de faire des phrases "

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                        • pilouP Offline
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                          I didn't know sketchup could do something that complex!

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