Hi forum,

I just picked up the helicopter-project I was working on the past few months and am determined to finally finish it. However, there is still one problem that is holding me back: As the following pictures will expain, the helicopter has cooling air vents on the engine housing, which is curved. Doesn't sound too complicated, but I just can't seem to come up with any ideas on how to do it. Here's what I mean:

This is the model. You can see the curved turbine housing, still missing the vents.

This is what it is supposed to look like.

I just can't think of any way to get this done. Can anybody help me out?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

what exactly do you mean? When you open sketchup, it shouldn't need to open a browser window. If for some reason you need it to open a browser window and it has to be firefox, make sure you have firefox set as your standard browser in windows.

according to this link, this problem is usually caused by outdated versions of the Visual C Runtime libraries. The link refers to a similar problem with IE 8, so it has nothing to do with SU Podium. However, the link might be interestingm to you, as long as you havn't read it already. (Its the first one that pops up when you google the error message

Yes, PLEASE post the .skp or at least some images. As far as I can tell from the model you posted, what I would do is the following. Create a single slat with the right shape, and most importantly the right length, then turn it into a component. Then you position it correctly, select the move tool, press and hold Ctrl and put the next one in. I know doing this 40+ times is a pain in the rear end, but its all I can think of now. You could also create one slat, select move, hold ctrl, move it along the red/green axis for as far as you want then type 40x and hit enter. that way you would only have to adjust the vertical positioning of the slats.

@unknownuser said:

@bunnyack said:

b) it won't keep the original surface, so I can't archieve my goal of giving the fuselage some thickness.

push the <tab> key during jpp (and a few other of fredo's tools) in order to get an options menu.. there you can pick 'thickening' for a solid offset..

Thanks Jeff, saved my day

Not only did it keep both faces, it also stopped sketchup from crashing at 79%. Problem solved.

Hey forum,

I am trying to connect two identical (exept one is scaled down a little) curved faces to eachother to create a wall with a certain thickness. I currently have them placed like this:

I tried curviloft to connect them, but it would give me an arror message saying "ERRORS (22) in contours have been detected (needle eye, spine) Do you want to fix them?"
When I click yes, sketchup crashes within seconds and I can't figure out what exactly the errors are in order to manually fix them.

I also tried Tools On Surface (joint push pull), but it would:
a) make sketchup crash halfway down the way and
b) it won't keep the original surface, so I can't archieve my goal of giving the fuselage some thickness.

Does anybody know how to do this right?

Here's the model: front fuselage.skp

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

@dukejazz said:

"I rotated the circle half the angle between vertices. I used a default 24 sided circle so I rotated the circle 7.5 degrees. I drew a line along the red axis to to split the circle in half and deleted the bottom half as well as that diameter line."- Dave

Dave your right

Bunnyack here the fix segment
[attachment=1:1mbh0vnp]<!-- ia1 -->Heatshield_dj.skp<!-- ia1 -->[/attachment:1mbh0vnp]
[attachment=0:1mbh0vnp]<!-- ia0 -->pic_0125.jpg<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:1mbh0vnp]

Thanks, pal In this case, lathe worked fine for me, though. And thanks for the explanation, Dave.

@unknownuser said:

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lathe

@bunnyack said:

I'm sure I must be missing something really obvious

nope.. you're not

Thanks, Jeff. Instantly soved my problem.

Hey forum, quick question:

Has anybody experienced this before?

I create a shape, a circle, cut the circle in half and use the follow-me tool to guide the shape around the half circle. Perfectly routine stuff, when suddenly:

What the hell, Sketchup?
I can't believe I'm being held up for so long by something that seems so simple, yet I can't seem to find whatever is causing this... I'm sure I must be missing something really obvious

Does anybody have an idea as to what could be causing this? Here's the file: Heatshield.skp

Thanks in advance,

Kevin

@hellnbak said:

Not sure if it's my best, but it was definitely the most fun! The Hannibal 8 from the 1964 movie "The Great Race", starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood.

The detail on that one is amazing