@gilles said:
I'm always trying to do it with native tools, instead of round corner follow me tool would do it but a little much time.
I always try to use the native tools that come with software packages as well. I have no 3rd party plugins for my music software packages and use only the default toolset, with good results just to give an example. 
@gilles said:
an over way to do it with Scale Tool
I was actually experimenting with that and getting some decent results, but it looks like ya beat me to the punch
@karinagm said:
@unknownuser said:
May I ask what tools you have used to do this?
It is explained in the file I attached, but for the curves I used bezier spline, restricted to 8 segments per curve (the default is 20).
Push pull for the profiles and curviloft to join the resultants edges (the image attached to the message).
Oh! I didn't realise it was in the file. My bad 
@unknownuser said:
http://www.artisan4sketchup.com
Ther's a 15day trial but I recommend you buy it
I'll give it a shot, I'm not that heavy a Sketchup user. Though given the exchange rate from $ to £ it might be worth it even if its just going to sit there best part of the year! haha
@karinagm said:
Mmmhhh I'm a bit late but here's how I've solved this in the past
[attachment=1:299w5w9d]<!-- ia1 -->bevels.skp<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:299w5w9d]
[attachment=0:299w5w9d]<!-- ia0 -->bevel.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:299w5w9d]Ohh nice one Dave! faster than mine
Jeff, I liked the result but I can't watch youtoube from work
Nor whatever Rich is using.... flash maybe?I have to miss half of the stuff posted in the forum due to restrictions in my pc
hate that
May I ask what tools you have used to do this?
D'OH! Forgot to hit "notfy me of a reply".
So many replies and so little time :B
@marian said:
No idea...I also stumbled on the same problem when I modeled my dell laptop and I settled for a compromise. http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=ed35ed3a7c8824e5996bace9c8deb982&prevstart=0
I'll watch this thread maybe I'll get a solution for my laptop model too
Btw...welcome to SCF. Have a nice stay here ^_^
Sweet model! And thanks
@unknownuser said:
like this? only 2 sides made
[attachment=0:1ew1d1ur]<!-- ia0 -->23.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1ew1d1ur]
I tried that at first but then I ran into problems trying to get the rounded off corners. I could probably make 8-segmants and then join them all together in a very hack and slash way to get the result if all else fails.
And then their is always the option of going bananas with the move tool! 
@unknownuser said:
Here's my suggestion using Artisan (or Sub Divide and Smooth)
[flash=600,480:1ew1d1ur]http://www.youtube.com/v/ckwgXqKH_uc[/flash:1ew1d1ur]
That looks like it would work, where can I download this plugin? I'll have a play about with it tonight when I get home.
@unknownuser said:
yet another suggestion here..
using the loft tool in curviloft set to 'bezier method2 respect tangency' along with the uniform B-splines from bezierSpline.rb..
[attachment=0:1ew1d1ur]<!-- ia0 -->computerBottomjh.skp<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1ew1d1ur]
[flash=700,555:1ew1d1ur]http://www.youtube.com/v/Xt_MffSkCEI?version=3&hl=en_US&rel=0[/flash:1ew1d1ur]
http://youtu.be/Xt_MffSkCEI?hd=1
Beizer Curves would be a good way to get the weird angle the bevel of the laptop sits at. Its very steep, almost straight.
@dave r said:
Jeff, that's very good. I agree the corners probably aren't circular curves. I just used them for speed but would have used a Bezier curve instead. I did use a Bezier curve for the profiles, though. I used TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails and it went pretty quickly. I did three sides since all three have different widths.
re: the back face color. Makes you want to correct reversed faces, doesn't it?
Actually, on closer inspection, it has a radius of about 0.5cm on the bottom. You can see it when light hits of the bottom of the computer.
Introduction
Dramatic as in "I fell down the stairs".
Have been using sketchup since version 6 reared its ugly head and have a few odd models floating around.
I mostly (everything) do 1:1 scale models of random bits and bobs of techno babble.
Though a hard drive failure in 2008 lost almost all of my models (and subsequently sent the Dell computer I was working on flying out the window for the hyper-billionth, time along with MS Windows).
So what I managed to save from all this is right here:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d05e40aeb8081384850db66bac01615f
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=d29194968bbf7fa436a6da92dbb88b3a
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=32d68bd4315a43b9ab740b857f575c7f
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f1b4c355c2df53e436a6da92dbb88b3a
The CZ3000 is probably my favourite model out of all the models I've done.
For ones that I have not uploaded or were lost:
http://homepage.mac.com/benanderson89/images/PS3.png
http://homepage.mac.com/benanderson89/images/iMac.png
http://homepage.mac.com/benanderson89/images/macbookAluminium.png
http://homepage.mac.com/benanderson89/images/esq-1.png
So yes, yet more techno rubbish spewing from Sketchup
Help
I have a bit of a problem with a model I am working on. A model of my Advent Modena Laptop (what a surprise) and I cannot seem to get the bevel around the edge to work. I can do a beveled edge with the follow me tool like I have done with the MacBook Aluminium model you see above, giving it a nice rounded corner, but the problem with the Modena I'm modelling is that the size of the bevel is not uniform around the computer.
This picture explains it better than I do:
http://homepage.mac.com/benanderson89/images/modena-underside.jpg
Any ideas how I could achieve this in Sketchup 8?
Cheers!
