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.

This one is called Lady Stephanie. I don't know who the real Lady Stephanie was but if she was anything like this engine, I'm guessing she was kind of ornery and hard to please.

After putting her aside I did another engine today. This is a a little crankless engine.

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.

Funny guys!

And here's another one. A little 4-cylinder oscillating engine. As usual, all base level components are solids.

This is from a model I initially made 11 years ago for shop drawings. I pulled it out recently to do a bit of refining in SU2025.

You have the Softening/Smoothing set ridiculouslu high for what you're modeling.

Select all of the edges and set the angle to 20°.

There's a lot of unneeded triangulation in the model due to the face it starts from a .stl file. That's what .stl files are.

BTW, if you plan to 3D print the other thing in your model you'll need to correct the face orientation. There should be no exposed back faces (shown in blue). The back faces are all to point at the print media. White front faces are toward air.

You also have some other issues to repair before it is 3D printable.

@Grizzly256 said in Sketchup and Miniature Modelling STLs:

just the 5 day limit is annoying.

It's not a free extension. If you need it and it saves you time, it's worth paying for. The alternative is to do what it does manually.

@Grizzly256 said in Sketchup and Miniature Modelling STLs:

it doesnt give me an option to set the import unit when doing so. I just click File-Import-Select File-Import. I never get the option to set import units.

You can get the option to set the import units. After selecting the .stl and before clicking Import, click on the Options button.

@Grizzly256 said in Sketchup and Miniature Modelling STLs:

I cant figure why i cant find which settings to turn of to bring it back to normal.

What's normal? Looks like you just need to adjust edge softening. Share the .skp file so we can see exactly what you are working with.

If you set the import units to meters the model will import as if millimeters are meters. and you'll be less likely to have issues with holes in surfaces. Rich's suggestion to use Skimp is a good one for simplifying the geometry after you have the .stl imported.

Set model units to meters and leave the model at the larger size. When you export the .stl again it should be in meters but will open in the slicer in millimeters. Look at existing threads in this category to see some other examples I've shown.

@GavinG do you have the latest version of the Sketchucation Extension Store installed?

The scenes called "Animation" and "Csonclusion" [sic] are set to Parallel Projection.

@ntxdave said in Share models:

Right now all I was trying to do is see if this link worked. I need someone to verify that they can access the file.

The link takes me to an empty DropBox folder.

@ntxdave said in Share models:

OK, DropBox has a monthly subscription

They have a free option as well.

@ntxdave said in Share models:

Can I or How would it be to use Trimble Connect?

Yes. You can share the file with Trimble Connect, too.

@ntxdave upload it to DropBox or Google Drive and share the link.

@kavi-priyan install the Sketchucation ExtensionStore and use it to search for and install LibFredo6 and Curviloft. There's a 30-day trial period for Curviloft. After the 30 days you can purchase the license if you wish to continue using it.

@TIG it shows as signed on my machine.