Not a steam engine this time. Instead this is a machinist's model of a shaper. The top part reciprocates forward and back pushing a cutter over the work clamped in the vise. As the machine cycles the table with the vise on it increments to the side after each stroke.

Still need some screws, nuts, bolts, and rivets but otherwise it's finished. Should even be timed correctly.

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Rich.

It could be useful indeed. In the meantime, if you've got a mouse with extra buttons you could assign the keyboard shortcut to a button.

How are you going to use this model when it is complete? How large is it? Will those corners really be seen? Maybe simply softening the edges where the flats meet the radius would be enough. Maybe hiding the edges on that component altogether would do it. Simple and quick and without creating a lot of file bloat.

What version of SketchUp are you using? That would tell us what tools you are using and have available.

@jamesmeng said in [Plugin Beta] Animator - v4.4a - 01 Jun 25:

your animator is so important for me so please ...

Have you made a donation to Fredo6 for his great work on this free extension?

There's more to those images than just SketchUp. There's some rendering in something such as Vray and some work in Photshop or similar.

@marked001 said:

This is getting better and better.

Thank you.

I got a little sidetracked.

Front axle I-beam from around 1905.

And a wheel for a rail car from around 1895.

Try my suggestions of softening and hiding the edges. You could also consider radiused edges instead of the hard square edges you have.

Resizing with Dynamic Components is a scaling operation. In your model you need to split the front part of the panel off the back as separate components. Then resize the back part and only move the front part with the groove. Maybe something like this.

I made it look like a single piece on the right by hiding the seam lines.

@rv1974 said in 2024 Paint Bucket:

I hate this new new brief tap behavior

It's been around for three or four years.

Thank you Bryan.

Not sure where I'll add this but I was doodling some more.

Becket Block

@errror404 You really ought to use the Extension Store tool to find and install extensions. It's easier than downloading the extensions and installing them with Extension Manager. It also means that when extensions get updated you can get an alert and update them quickly, and of course build your bundle to make migrating to a new version of to a new computer easier.

@nickchun glad you got it sorted. I presume you used the previous version of the ExtensionStore tool to update to the current one. Periodically open the UI. It'll check any extensions that it installed for updates, including itself, and let you know if there are updates to install.

Thank you sir. Maybe it makes up for my lack of skill with rendering that you have.

I often work with a scale of 1000x. I can treat millmeters as meters that way.

For anyone else who comes along:

The new migrator copies the extensions from the previous SketchUp installation. If you haven't stayed on top of keeping extensions updated or if extensions required updates for the new SketchUp version you will still need to go and track those down. And for extensions that have their own installers, most likely you can expect those extensions to fail to load and you'll need to install them correctly.

Even if you use the migrator, the very next step regarding extensions from Sketchucation should be to open the Sketchucation Extension Store tool and install the bundle to make sure you have the latest versions of extensions from here. That will also allow the tool to alert you when there are extensions that need to be updated and it will create a new bundle for later use on other machines or for the next major release.

And don't get lazy about keeping extensions up to date. The authors do their best to keep them updated. The least you can do is take advantage of their updates.

@pace514 You managed to give the edges in the model the tag called GO-DIM while the the first level groups have either the 1/3 Fond or 2/3 Fond tag. You should create and keep all edges and faces untagged. I ran TIG's Default Tag Geometry to fix your model.

TAG question FIXED.skp