it took me about 2 hours today just get it wrong.
thank you
btw
i watched your vids on modelling cars the other day. pretty damn good i have to say. did you learn all that on sketchup or learn the pinciples on other software? i'm keen to learn Artisan (and vertex tool etc - I love a plugin) but so far is tiny steps

cheers again

c

so - that last final stairs you created - is the bottom of the stairs wider than the top? your original post looks as though it is but last one it don't so much?

Fantastic! looked easy !
don't leave me in suspense ..... how did you get the step dropping evenly and stay on the curve down? ???
c

Hello all,
I have a stair case for a TV set that i can't get right.
(bear with the explanation.....)
stair case height 3300mm
stair riser 150mm
actual step height 50mm then gap of 100mm 50+100=150mm(lets imagine its a clear perspex step - see image & .skp)
there should be 22steps Or 24 if you count the top and floor step

there are two different curves that become the sides of the stairs - id like the steps to meet each side

the bit im finding really impossible is, i want to follow the curve down AND maintain the riser height of 150 - THE DEPTH of each step can be big getting smaller stopping with a minimum depth of 300mm

In the pictures attached you can see it looks good but I can get the steps to descend in 150mm increments along AND curve round
I think the top steps will be long my drawing here isn't right

Any Help much appreciated

AutoSave_STAIRS HEADACHE.skp

im not sure how to do what you asked. right clicking the icons - in the toolbar? (nothing)
right clicking in toolbarEditor? (nothing in the menu that come up that looked familiar)

some of fredos icons work. is it possible to compare and find the answer?

Yes I do, they are all there.

This looks great but I'm missing icons? any ideas.....

@rickw said:

Has anyone else had problems with not all commands being available? I'm also missing a lot of icons that exist on other toolbars.

cheers
c

That's another way of doing it. I'd not thought if that way. The outliner is a very useful tool in many situations.

I didn't know about richs' I'll take a look.
cheers
c

This looks like a great help - An idea struck me - there is only so much screen space, Su is very plugin dependent and su is so versatile, it got me thinking - does su let you extend this plugin so you could customise your work area by displaying certain tool pallettes/windows for certain jobs....much like photoshop does
example
custom arrangement1 - Job:organic modelling - vertex tools, artisan- are open
custom arrangement 2 - Job:working in 2d - 2d tools- are open
just a thought...
c

Great.
I'd initially exploded them so i could use the plane they where on to draw upon. this then proved difficult when it came to moving verts around, I've now moved the blueprints back from the modelling area and working is easier

BTW: ThomThom the gizmo you've conjured in vertex tools is great! soo helpful with this kind of modelling. Great job.

Hello all,
I've just begun modelling a chair using 3 blueprints. front side and a back. Its my first attempt using this method. Its quite an organic chair so i'm using various plugins
I'm hoping you can help me in where i put my front side and back with regard to the models groups hierarchy . Say i make a group of the arm rest, when i go into it and go to model it the reference blueprint, being outside the group, naturally greys out and unhelpful.
what a good method? or is the a way to tweak su so i can see them - have had a quick shuffle of styles but nothing seemed to be right.
Thanks in advance
c

Also my method, to only help ease the problem and retain the ACT scenes (for tweaking), is to use ThomThom selection toys. Use select all on selected layer and you can delete all the frustums in one go.
C

Thats a very good idea! thank you.

Hello All,
This plugin is ultimately very frustrating and I'm looking for help. Those of you who have used ACT may have come across the 2 layers that are added called Cameras_FOV_lines and Camera_FOV_volumes when you place a camera.
After sometime, and with the addition of more cameras, Crazy clipping occurs.
You can help yourself by deleting these and the clipping stops
..... but
Although I Knew this what i didn't realise is that they reappear. Deleting them dosen't delete them.

delete the layers - they return
as you view through each camera each volume / lines return returns too.

Anyway to stop this behaviour ?

c

It's basically 'back to basics'. Thank you guys this has been most informative. I understand then there is no set way to do this but it is do-able.
Cheers.

Hello all, can you help me...
I have used a bezier curve in my drawing and need to put some kind of dimension onto it to tell construction how to make it.
SU curves i use chris fullmer's arc to centre point to find the radius. with bezier curves this can't be done. theres lots of radii.....
what do you guys do in this situation?
how can i draw it so they can understand the curve .......is there some architectural way....

cheers in advance
chris

Thanks TIG,
that explains it very well.
One point would be that at the end of the day i always wait till dropbox is completed it transfer before shutting down. by doing this shouldn't it remove the 1.skb or the 2.skb that has been created - they still remain and are always the most up to date.

i take your workflow 'publishing' point onboard.

c

Hello All

I have a shared DropBox folder that I share with one other person. A querky thing happens when I save a .skp file, usually happens after saving a few times - most of the time i save using the same file name. Thankfully i've never lost anywork but i'm confused. (SEE ATTACHED PIC OF FOLDER) The most uptodate file is named 5.skb not CR_2_13.12.12.skp which is the file name i gave at the start of the day.

I'm fairly new to PC (having switched fairly recently from a MAC) Mac's file names for autosaved work are 'autosave_projectname.skp' and I presume PC uses a file called a .skb
which are the same sort of thing as a .skp?

Can anyone help me understand whats happeing to my file names, if theres a cure and tell me a little more about .skb files?

cheers
chris

Hello all,
What would be the best renderer to buy that's good for 'inside' rendering. I want to use it for visualisation of tv sets. So obviously no natural light, studio space is rough 40m sq, tv shows have a massive amount of spot lights although podium my render of choice at the moment I use far less than would be used in real life, LEMs are easier to handle personally.
unfortunately the world I live in requires fast turn around, and that's needed in the renderer I'm looking for more than quality (which is strange to say). I'm showing off the set as opposed to real life.
At the moment I' m using podium it's good and fast but maybe there's something out there that maybe I'm missing - any ideas?
Cheers in advance
Chris