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Is it the board or me?

Voted yes but won't compete. But I love seeing SubD examples.

You might want to check out 2DBoolean by Joel G. Just the thing for this operation.

@box said:

Here you go Baz, best I could manage in the wind today.
It's still a construction zone as you can see.

That gave us a bit of a taste,ta.
Looks amazing and proves that its a FPS experience
BTW: Was the guys fly open?

I appreciate how hard it is to photograph, so a 'short' walk around with video might go some way to capturing the artworks

@box said:

These sculptures are basically impossible to photograph. I doubt I'll ever get anything showing both looking good. Their very nature makes them a dynamic installation.
The figures change constantly with the movement of the sun, one minute hidden in the depths of the pool then as the sun comes out from behind a cloud or around the edge of a building they jump out at you with bright sparkling edges.
But reflections and glare make static images difficult but I caught this angle this afternoon that gives you a bit of an idea of how they look.

How about a short video?

Good stuff in Wired Magazine...

Beautiful Renderings Resurrect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Demolished Buildings

(wired.us8.list-manage.com)

The lifting frame looks to be a work of art on its own, what could possibly go wrong.

Sorry for delay in replying. Thanks for the hints.
The Gilles 'follow me' method works the best for me. I havent tried your idea yet Pilou.
Thanks again.

@dave r said:

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Based on one dated to about 1900. I drew it for a tutorial on cutting the stopped chamfers.

In FWW?

@utiler said:

Just revisiting this thread; when converting colours to vector and exploding down to base elements, any colours with opacity levels altered will come in as full colour.

That is just a condition of vectorizing the file. Same as when you lose shadows etc.
You can get your opacity colours in hybrid or raster. But with less editing capabilities.
But then you are back where you started I suppose.

@pilou said:

Just In V6 for a more large audiance!

Thanks Pilou, I must remember to do that in future.

I do a bit of letter carving for signs in the real world. Thought I'd give it a try in SU.
And thought it would be straightforward. Not at all. Got in a hell of a mess.
The pic below was as good as I managed, very slow, too many vertices, broken faces, hard work.
Must be a better way...
...I'm wondering how some of you guys might tackle it?

I've attached a couple of sample letters in outline if anyone wants to have a go...
Cheers
Baz

IncisedLetters_Forum-V6.skp

@nujak66 said:

Baz,

You are great! I didn't even think of drawing in sketchup first, then converting to vector in layout! Genius! Thank you! Much better than my png version. I'm glad I didn't spend too much time building a library of .png. I'm going to go at a scrapbook library your way in Layout.

Cheers!

Good,thanks. Show us a few examples when you have some...

@ntxdave said:

@baz said:

Here is a plugin for exploded views...

Exploded View | SketchUcation

3D SketchUp Community for Design and Engineering Professionals.

(sketchucation.com)

I get a pretty much blank page (except all of the add stuff). No text at all under the name of the plugin.

Look to the right. Says 'Login to get it".

@brooklynia373 said:

Is the edge just drawn freehand and then push/pull?

Baz, how do you get the checking lines at the end of the board in your render? Is that also drawn in the model?... or a bump/displacement map?

It was a bump.

Here is a plugin for exploded views...

Exploded View | SketchUcation

3D SketchUp Community for Design and Engineering Professionals.

(sketchucation.com)

Tig's Split Tools/SplitDonut should do it for you.

Here's another...