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    Best posts made by Dave R

    • Hook on a Pulley

      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.

      Large Pulley no edges.png

      posted in Gallery
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    • A Recent 3D Printing Project

      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.
      53593110206_d1d09c7ea5_k.jpg

      Partially assembled.
      53596792242_6d8d48cb1a_k.jpg

      Temporarily installed on a chair. Ignore the dog hair.
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      posted in SketchUp for 3D Printing sketchup 3dprint
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    • SketchUp's AO and Vray

      oscillator Vray and AO.png

      Combined a Vray render with an AO export direct from SU24.

      posted in Gallery
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    • Vintage Look

      Flywheel fig3.png

      Experimenting with creating a vintage illustration style for my SketchUp models. The flywheel is based on dimensioned drawings in a textbook from 1897.

      posted in Gallery
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      Dave R
    • Another Machinist's Model of a Steam Engine.

      Lady Stephanie color.png

      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.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Another Machinist's Model of a Steam Engine.

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

      Experimental Crankless Engine.png

      posted in Gallery
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      Dave R
    • Beam Compass

      From an old book. SketchUp and Paint DotNet.

      Beam Compass.png

      posted in Gallery
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      Dave R
    • "Watt" Micrometer

      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.
      Watt Micro Views small.png
      A larger version of this image is available here.

      All the screws are made and holes threaded. 28 component definitions, all solids.

      posted in Gallery
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      Dave R
    • RE: Another Machinist's Model of a Steam Engine.

      Funny guys!

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

      4 cylinder V Steam engine G.png

      posted in Gallery
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      Dave R
    • A Mahogany Lowboy

      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.
      Lowboy mahogany.png

      posted in Gallery
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    Latest posts made by Dave R

    • RE: Sketchup 2017 suddenly closes

      @hannaconner said in Sketchup 2017 suddenly closes:

      I use SU 2017 as a subscription doesn't make sense

      You're right. That doesn't make sense since SketchUp 2017 was never available as a subscription. What kind of license do you really have?

      @hannaconner said in Sketchup 2017 suddenly closes:

      Anytime I try to do a cut and paste or other action that increases or adds to it, it suddenly crashes.

      What operating system are you using? What are the specs on your computer? What is the graphics card? Most likely you have exceeded your computer's capability. It's also possible that you have a bad object (component or group) in the model.

      You might try purging and otherwise cleaning up the model before trying to add more to it.

      You could share the file with us so we can see if it can be fixed. Upload it to DropBox or We Transfer and share the link.

      posted in Newbie Forum
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      Dave R
    • RE: Beveled corners without overlaps

      @sentur How about modeling it flat and then bending it withShape Bender?

      Screenshot - 7_8_2025 , 9_29_35 AM.png

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: Beveled corners without overlaps

      That's normal behavior for the method you are using. Easier approach to get the correct result would be to add the corner radius before cutting the large arcs.

      Screenshot - 7_7_2025 , 4_10_33 PM.png

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: 3d dimensions visible for render

      I don't believe there are any extensions to do that. You could use 3D text and drawn 3D dimension and extension lines to create the geometry. I find it's simper and faster to combine a couple of image exports; the render and a dimensions-only image direct from SketchUp. This is a quick 10 second render to show the idea.

      The render:
      Vise render.png

      The dimensions-only image export from SketchUp:
      Creasman Moxon Vise dimens.png

      And after combining them in an image editor:
      Creasman Moxon Vise render.png
      The layer for the dimensions is set to Multiply in the image editor.

      posted in Extensions & Applications Discussions
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      Dave R
    • RE: Bevel Emboss or Whatever how can i make this in sketch up???

      Did you look at the video on it's ExtensionStore page?
      https://sketchucation.com/plugin/1103-extrudetools

      I still don't have time to do a video on the entire process but maybe this will help. I copied out the needed edges from the L I already made for this. Note that the straigh edges at the ends need to be divided into multiple segments and welded to make them curves. Two segments is enough, though. Going through the options I chose to no delete the original curves. Since the entire letter gets done in stages, you can't delete all of the edges after an extrusion because you'll need them for the neighboring steps.

      EEbyR.gif

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: Bevel Emboss or Whatever how can i make this in sketch up???

      Sorry. I don't have time to make a video right now.

      What version of SketchUp are you using? How much experience do you have?

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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      Dave R
    • RE: Bevel Emboss or Whatever how can i make this in sketch up???

      To illustrate what @Rich-O-Brien described, I made a 3D model in SketchUp based on your image.

      Raised L.png

      I imported your image into SketchUp as an image to trace. I made it quite large--200m tall--to avoid the tiny face issue. I used a combination of straight edges and Bezier splines drawn with FredoSpline to outline the letter, draw in the ridge lines and connect them at the various ends. Then I used TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails to create the sloped surfaces. Bybreaking it into a few sections, Extrude Edges is more controllable.

      The blue edges show where I divided things up.

      Screenshot - 7_4_2025 , 9_10_30 AM.png

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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      Dave R
    • RE: Can one save settings in LayOut?

      Output Override is a Document Setup setting so yes, you can save that as part of your template like the rest of the Document Setup options.

      posted in Newbie Forum
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    • RE: Justification of Dimensions

      @Sekta what operating system?

      Can you share a LayOut file with dimensions set up like you want? I'd like to see if it works differently on my end.

      Note in my gif it's only the short row of text within the text box that is moving. I wouldn't expect the text to move in the text box unless the text box was wider than the text. The text box for dimensions is normally just wide enough for the text so there'd be nothing to justify.

      You can move the text box along the dimension line or outside of the extension lines if needed.
      Screenshot - 6_26_2025 , 8_51_29 AM.png

      posted in LayOut Bug Reporting
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    • RE: Justification of Dimensions

      How are you trying to use justification for dimensions? The standard would be to have the dimension text centered in its text box.

      FWIW, if you have a multi line dimension text box justification works just fine.
      just.gif

      posted in LayOut Bug Reporting
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      Dave R