A hook on a pulley for some sort of crane or something. Based on dimensions given in an old, undated book from Spain of technical drawing exercises.

This is a heel strap for a wheelchair to prevent the user's feet from sliding off the foot plate. It's designed to install easily with no tools required except scissors to trim the strap to length. The clips with snap on covers are 3D printed to fit off the shelf polyurethane toothed belting.

From the SketchUp model.

Partially assembled.

Temporarily installed on a chair. Ignore the dog hair.

Combined a Vray render with an AO export direct from SU24.

Experimenting with creating a vintage illustration style for my SketchUp models. The flywheel is based on dimensioned drawings in a textbook from 1897.

From an old book. SketchUp and Paint DotNet.

A model of what is probably the first micrometer ever made. It's dated England about 1776 and attributed to James Watt although evidence shows it likely wasn't made by him.

A larger version of this image is available here.

All the screws are made and holes threaded. 28 component definitions, all solids.

A machinist's model of a twin cylinder steam engine designed by Joseph Bernays in the 1870's. The original was displayed in Paris at the Universal Exposition of 1878.

Another in my series of machinist's models. This engine is powered by water, not steam. Water goes into the opening visible near the bottom of the engine and out on the far end. I believe the copper colored cylinder is just filled with air which gets compressed by the water and provides some pressure for exhausting the water.

For a scale reference, the flywheel on this model has a diameter of 159 mm.

Here's a grab of the illustration of the original full-size engine showing the valve arrangement

@nickchun you might try updating to the latest version of the Sketchucation ExtensionStore tool. The latest version is 4.4.1

Another two cylinder engine just for the fun of it.

@nickchun Fredo should probably have written "14.7a or higher".

@L-i-am nice images.

I would like to see the first horizontal seams on either side at the same height.

@danna Look at the orientation of the axes in my screenshot.

Give the component gluing in the Create Component panel.

@danna Rich is correct. Rotating the component would be simplest. You could also set gluing properties for the component and drag copies of it in from the Components panel.

I've set the axes so the component's origin falls on the vertical face of the box.

@jamesn320 said in Converting Lines to a shape:

I need it to stay flat.

Try Eneroth Upright Extruder from the Extension Warehouse.

@Aartrace1 you have overridden the Camera property for the viewport which tells LayOut you aren't interested in the Camera property from the scene in the SketchUp Model. Note the Reset buttons and the dark gray background in the Camera section of the SketchUp Model panel.

When you copy a viewport that has had scene proprties overridden the overrides get copied, too.

Best practice is to avoid overriding the Camera properties in LayOut. There should be no reason to double click into a viewport to pan the camera and no need to manually select a Standard view or manually tick the Ortho box.

@danna start with the website for the extension.

https://mindsightstudios.com/profile-builder/

@jamesn320 what version of SketchUp are you using? What file type are you exporting from 3D Planit? I expect that the file exported from 3D Planit is only showing the centerlines of the track. Other track planning software does the same.

As for the curves, SketchUp represents curves with short edge segments. There no way around that. Depending on what you need you might want to redraw the track centerlines using larger numbers of segments for the curves.

How much detail are you expecting to show in your SketchUp model? If you want to show the track bed, you can use the centerlines as paths for Follow Me. I did that for the N-scale Timesaver T-track module.

@GrimReap said in Converting Lines to a shape:

Does it have a lot of tools to make it easier to work in SketchUp?

The thing that's going to make it easier to work in SketchUp is learning how to use the tools. Extensions can simplify some things but you still need to understand the basic functions of the native tools.

@Gus-R thanks for that. I have been looking for some new sources for stuff to model. I've done a few railroad related models before but it could be time to do more.

@L-i-am if you wanted to make it look less photographic you could use the rendered image as a basis for a hand-shaded sort of look. Combine it with a hidden line export from SketchUp Maybe use a sketchy line style or the straight line styles. Maybe enable extensions for some of the lines

This is just a quickie shaded thing. I'm not sure it's totally right but a start.