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.

Very nice update. Thank you!

How precise does it really need to be in SketchUp? I might just eyeball it.

Low tech option: Use a profile gauge to lift the profile of the vase.

Transfer that to a piece of paper and then measure the offsets from a centerline at regular intervals.

In SketchUp, place guide points at those offsets and then connect them with a Catmull Spline from Fredo's Bezier Spline tools. Create a profile to use with Follow Me.

You could also take a photograph of the vase showing the profile and import that into SketchUp as an image to trace.

When I need my SketchUp view and render image to have the same aspect ratio, as when I combine the images, I set the aspect ratio in the renderer to match that of SketchUp's window. It's easier than chasing the aspect ratio in SketchUp. Any fine tuning to the aspect ratio is then done in an image editor.

@grizzler said in Make Unique Texture giving weird results:

still persists with the new graphics engine only.

What graphics card are you using? What OS?

Click on the Extensions button at the top of the forum page.

The go to PluginStore>My Licenses. You can download your licenses from there.

Make sure you have the current version of the ExtensionStore installed. Use it to install extensions from Sketchucation.

I've had excellent service from my Logitech keyboards and mice. The only time I've had to replace the keyboard is when I've spilled something sugary into it. As far as mice, I've only had to replace them when I wear the feet off and they get too difficult to push around. The one on the left here is close to that point. I've never had any failures of the buttons or wheel.

Did you try installing it correctly using the Sketchucation ExtensionStore tool?

FWIW, did youuse the Sketchucation ExtensionStore tool to install your Sketchucation Bundle? If not, you may have issues with some other extensions. The extension migrator for SU2025 only copies the extensions from a previous installation of SketchUp. It doesn't update them like installing the bundle with the ExtensionStore tool does.

A twin cylinder steam powered donut delievery device? That would be cool.

In the meantime here's an idler sprocket for #40 roller chain.

Excellent!

I would set up an edge-on scene and then, in LayOut, place the dimension between the bottom and the apex of the curve.