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    • 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.

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      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.
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      Partially assembled.
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      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

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

      posted in Gallery
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    • Vintage Look

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      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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    • Another Machinist's Model of a Steam Engine.

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      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.

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      posted in Gallery
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    • Beam Compass

      From an old book. SketchUp and Paint DotNet.

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      posted in Gallery
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    • "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.
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      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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    • 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.

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      posted in Gallery
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    • 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.
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      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Another Steam Engine

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      posted in Gallery
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    • Steam Engine Machinist's Model

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      A machinist's model of a twin cylinder steam engine designed by Joseph Bernays in the 1870's. The original was displayed in Paris at the Universal Exposition of 1878.

      posted in Gallery
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    • Schmid's Water-Powered Engine

      Another in my series of machinist's models. This engine is powered by water, not steam. Water goes into the opening visible near the bottom of the engine and out on the far end. I believe the copper colored cylinder is just filled with air which gets compressed by the water and provides some pressure for exhausting the water.

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      For a scale reference, the flywheel on this model has a diameter of 159 mm.

      Here's a grab of the illustration of the original full-size engine showing the valve arrangement

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

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      posted in Gallery
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    • A Bench and a Stool

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      Playing in SketchUp 2025. The bench and stool were modeled a long time ago. Cloth added with Clothworks. The cloth and floor have textures from the curated collection in the 3D Warehouse. Nothing but SketchUp and PaintdotNet.

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

      Here's another little one. It's about the same size as the previous one.

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      posted in Gallery
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    • Seating for Three?

      Just playing. At the right is my rendition of a Guillerme and Chambron 'Rubercrin' chair. On the left, my modification to make it a dining chair. In the back is the stool my grandfather used in his workshop. The real one still has a faint odor of his pipe tobacco.

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      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: ExtensionStore interface issue

      @nickchun you might try updating to the latest version of the Sketchucation ExtensionStore tool. The latest version is 4.4.1

      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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    • RE: Steam Engine Machinist's Model

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      Another two cylinder engine just for the fun of it.

      posted in Gallery
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    • RE: Seamless tiling

      It tiles correctly in SketchUp for the image you have supplied.

      Illustrating what TIG described: I cropped your image down to eliminate the partial tiles on the sides. The cropped image is shown imported as an image on the left and as a material on the larger face to the right.

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      posted in SketchUp Discussions
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