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

@Mike-Amos Thank you.

@ntxdave said in Another Machinist's Model of a Steam Engine.:

@Dave-R Very nice sir!

You said all SketchUp. Did you use any plugins?

Yes, I did use a few extensions. For this latest one TIG's Extrude Edges by Rails, Fredo6's Fredo Corner and Round Corner., and TIG's Tangent Tools, Eneroth Solid Tools, and Bool Tools2 is about all.

By saying "all SketchUp" I meant there was no external rendering done.

And thank you!

@tuna1957 thank you sir. I have been amazed at how many different little steam engine models I've found.

Another little steam engine. The flywheel has a diameter of 80mm. Nothing but SketchUp.

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.

@ntxdave said in SketchUcation Extension Manager Not Showing Updates Needed:

I copied them into 2025 from 2024. So, what is the best way to track updates?

The general advice has always been to not copy extensions from an older version to a new one. There are some extensions that need to be installed properly using their installers. And often extensions require updates to work in a new version of SketchUp. This is not specific to SketchUp 2025.

Did you manually copy the extensions or did you use the new extension migrator?

At this point I would just go into the Sketchucation Tool in SU2025 and go to your Bundle and install the 2024 bunudle with the most current versions of the extensions. That will generate a new bundle of extensions for SketchUp 2025 for the next time you need to install extensions.

FWIW, the Sketchucation Extension Store tool will indicate there are updates when it's been used to install the extension in the first place. Evidence from a minute ago:

Did you install those extensions using the Sketchucation Extension Store tool or did you download them directly and install them or did you copy them from a previous SketchUp installation? Unless you use the Extension Store to install them the Extension Store tool won't keep track of whether or not they need to be updated.

@NeloNath thanks.Time lapse videos really aren't my thing but I'll think about it. I don't think of time lapse videos as being very tutorial-like.

@HornOxx from where did you delete them? On Windows the shipped materials are in Program Data.

I think Rich is correct that they are also hard coded so they would get rewritten if you delete them. And certainly the folders would be rewritten if you reinstall SketchUp.

I see a major issue is that your profile is offset inward from the path but more than the radius of the arcs at the ends.

Do you really want the "knobs" at the ends to have that corner.

Here the profile (shown selected) is aligned with the path. On the right you can see some of the resulting extrusion. Might be better to put the profile outside the path.

@tuna1957 thank you. It does seem to be working fine. The original side things on the foot plate were PLA which is brittle and one of them got broken. Easy enough to print new ones. The current ones are PETG and seem to be holding but I got a spool of TPU yesterday and made a new set that are a little flexible. Maybe they won't break. We'll see when I get the opportunity to swap them in.

Slowly putting things together.

Need to model the rest of the chair I guess. Never done that before.

@ntxdave sorry. @Rich-O-Brien beat me to it.

If you want to use Vray for editing, the Studio subscription is less than the Pro sub and buying Vray separately.

@Rich-O-Brien I agree with you regarding better renders. Vray and others will always have the edge. i don't see Trimble bloating SketchUp with a full-blown renderer. Their arrangement with Chaos Group for the Studio subscription makes better sense than including a full renderer in SketchUp from a development and management point of view, too.

Thank you for the compliments. This does work well for some of my presentations.

You and I have gotten a lot of use from Style Builder. My guess is most SketchUp users have never even opened it or know what it does. Seems the vast majority of users want to create photo-realistic images of their models and don't like the sketchy look. I plan to keep it around as long as I can and will still use it.

@ntxdave thank you.

this is a simple thing from SU2025. Straight out of it with no editing. This is a footplate attachment for a wheelchair with adjustable guards or brackets on the side to help keep the user's feet on the plate.

You can't see much of it but here's the 3D printed version in place on the chair.

@Danromanob said in Clothworks license:

but I don't understand how to instal it

The extension or the license?

What version of SketchUp? What operating system?

@ntxdave said in A Bench and a Stool:

The shadows are very interesting. Seems like there must be light coming from at least 2 directions.

I'm glad that's visible. They are coming from two different directions. This is a simple thing to do. I set Use sun for shading but no shadows for the textured image export. Then made two image exports of just the shadows which I combined with the textured image in the image editor. I applied a bit of blur to the shadow images to get the soft shadows.

Thank you. The "photo real textures" thing is a new feature in SU2025. That's how I created the shiny metal tubing and leather armrests here. The curated collection of materials (and other stuff) in the 3D Warehouse is available to anyone with a current subscription although the texture maps will only do anything in 2025. You might be able to download the texture maps with an older version of SketchUp and use them in an external renderer but I haven't checked that out yet.