Array or Copy Multiple?

[tomsdesk]

That's why I keep hangin' around with you kids...learn something new most every day. Happy Birthday, BTW!

[sorgesu]

Thanks Tom. I'm afraid that my birthday proves that I'm no kid. Sigh.

[Gaieus]

Well, I miss half a day and everything is answered...

Anyway, have a look at the "Making linear arrays" with the move tool and "Radial arrays" with the rotate tool in the SU Guide (both are somewhere half way down the pages).

[Sawduster]

I recently saw a nice tutorial using the radial array to make the copies for an animation of a door opening. Very cool.

[Edson]

hi randall,

what you probably want to do is to create an array in which one single instance can be turned into an arrangement of objects in rows and columns, right? i do not think SU can do it in a single move. first you have to copy the object along a row (horizontally) then you select the entire row and copy it vertically. see the attached "tutorial".

tut_array.skp

[Jean-Franco]

Hi All,
I think the tutorial mentionned by Sawduster is a video on Design, Click and Build made by Dave Richards. The title is "Animating Your SketchUp Models".
Here is the link: http://blogs.taunton.com/n/blogs/blog.aspx?redirCnt=1&webtag=fw-designforum
Jean-Franco

[tinanne]

ok, I've tried it several times and read the tutorial. What am I missing..... trying to do an array.

[Tobobo]

Don't worry i had it hard at first to. Use Edson's skippy, and try 5x for multiple and /5 to divide the gap.

Keep trying it'll happen

[Edson]

tina, who are you talking to?

and what exactly are you trying to do and cannot do?

[tinanne]

I was talking to anyone I have tried this before awhile ago and now again, but have never been able to get it to work.

I'm not doing it for any specific project. Just want to know how to do it as the occasion arises.

Thanks for your help

oh, just trying to do a circular array of any ole' object

[Gidon Yuval]

Here's a little tutorial. The methode is the same for linear or radial arrays.
Hope it helps.

Array tut.skp

[linea]

Thanks, Susan, Gidon, Edson.

I had tried this before but could'nt really get the hang of it. I have a project to draw a fountain that will involve lots of concentric circular arrays. I can't wait to get on with it now! I'd struggle to draw a box if it wasn't for this forum.

[Edson]

bravo, gidon. much more precise than the one i posted above.

the same principles explained by gidon in his tut on linear arrays apply to radial ones: just instead of a distance one would enter an angle.

[Gaieus]

@unknownuser said:

...the same principles explained by gidon in his tut on linear arrays apply to radial ones: just instead of a distance one would enter an angle.

or start the copy/rotate by hand, snap to an endpoint on the circle and then hit the x-something or /-something... Good to create radial arrays that perfectly align to your (customly segmented) circles.

[tinanne]

WooHoo! I did it! Thank you so much Gidon!! and Edson! Very cool!

[Gidon Yuval]

Good for you, Tina!
I don't know if you did a linear array or a circular array so I thought I'd add a circular array tutorial just to be on the safe side.

Circular array tut.skp

[Tobobo]

Ooooooo! Clever

[tinanne]

Thanks again Gidon. I did the circular array. I just wasn't typing the "formula" in the right order. Very cool, I'm exciting. This will make placing corbels on a turret MUCH easier!

[Gaieus]

@tinanne said:

...Very cool, I'm exciting...

Hm...

[tinanne]

LOL! WOOPS!