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@Leggy said in help with a thread:
What about tpi?
What do you mean? The thread pitch is given along with the other dimensions for the threads. TPI standas for Threads Per Inch and is not used for metric threads. M22x2.5 indicates the nominal diamter is 22mm and the pitch is 2.5mm. The helix rises 2.5mm for each rotation.
@Leggy said in help with a thread:
Is there a chart you use to look up thread dimensions, pitch, tpi , crest etc
I would use the following site:
Metric external thread size table chart for sizes M20 to M55 Bolts and screws per. ANSI/ASME B1.13M-1995.
(www.engineersedge.com)
I wouldn't bother with the radiused corners because they'd be too small.
All the Migrator does is copy the extensions from the Plugins folder of the older version and paste them into the new version. If you have outdated extensions, they may create errors when you start the new version of SketchUp again. As for the licensing of extentions, it depends on the extensions and how the licenses are managed. For extensions from SketchUcation, you should use the Sketchucation ExtensionStore to install your bundle of extensions. First install the latest version of the ExtensionStore. Doing that will ensure you get the latest versions of those extensions installed and that they will be installed correctly.
You're looking at the old Trimble online viewer, not the SketchUp online viewer. After saving your file to Trimble Connect, use the Share a Link option from the Trimble Connect menu. Or you can do the same in the Trimble Connect web UI.
The SketchUp online viewer will display the watermark. Here is a model in SketchUp with a watermark added in the style.
And this is what it looks like in the SketchUp online viewer.
TIG Weld seems to be working fine in SU2026 for me. I also use Eneroth AutoWeld which will weld any edges that can be welded in a selection.
If all you want to do is open in 2016 a model you created in SketchUp 2017, why do you want to create an OBJ file in the first place? What's wrong with using File>Save As ... in SketchUp 2017 and selecting SketchUp 2016?
@L-i-am I like the painting quite a lot. It's so much nicer after it was cleaned up and framed.
@Mike-Amos thank you. It's basically straight out of SketchUp.
@L-i-am said in A Small Table and a Watercolor Painting on an Easel:
Is that an original painting that is yours?
Yes. I own the painting. It was given to me about 60 years ago by a great aunt.
@L-i-am said in A Small Table and a Watercolor Painting on an Easel:
I am nit picking here, and that artis stool would almost always have 3 legs as do all milking stools have 3 legs for stability
True. If it was a stool it probably would have three legs. But it isn't a stool. It's a small side table.
I agree that it's unfortunate they removed StyleBuilder. I think it just didn't have enough users. I'll keep SU2024 installed as long as I can to keep StyleBuilder available. Diffusion was not meant as a replacement. It was meant as a tool to help users come up with ideas for their models. It wasn't meant to replace renderers, either. I've played with Diffusion a bit but it doesn't really have a place for my work.
FWIW, I used one of my sketchy line styles in the image above.
The painting is by Henry Stannard, RBA from about 1885. I recently had a conservator clean up the painting and then had it framed. The image here is from the conserved but unframed painting.
I made a similar thing for a recent image using Radial Bending from FredoScale.
This looks like a great tool Samuel. Unfortunately I'm not seeing a way to use the textures from it. I am not seeing the error message Rich shows but clicking on a material doesn't seem to do anything unless the material is already in the local Materials folder. This is also with SU2026 on Windows 11.
@Glenn-at-home said in SketchUp 2026 Released:
all but 1 3rd party plugin seems to be working, Ambient Occlusion but that's to be expected.
Do you still need the Ambient Occlusion extension since SketchUp has it natively?
Did you use the Sketchucation ExtensionStore to install your bundle of Sketchucation extensions?
@i5963c what operating system? What version of SketchUp?
This is what I see in the Shortcutter with the current version of Sketchucation Tools.
@jgb said in Any good tutorials on BEVEL gear design in SU?:
I would appreciate if you could fully explain the SPGears dialog box as some of the terms are not reflected in other documentation.
Looks like Roberto is taking over so I'll leave it to him.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the bevel angle on the gears may not be 45° for a right angle drive. You'll have to play with that to get the correct angles so the teeth will mesh properly. You may not be able to get the exact ratio you're after, either.
See the calculator on this page: https://www.engineersedge.com/calculators/spur_gear_calculator_and_generator_15506.htm for figuring out pitch diamter based on the number of teeth.
This diagram comes from https://www.engineersedge.com/gear_formula.htm Take a look at that site to see how all the numbers are calclated.
Also see the information at https://www.engineersedge.com/gear_menu.shtml
There are gear generator tools there where you can put in the numbers you want and it'll calculate the rest.
@jgb said in Any good tutorials on BEVEL gear design in SU?:
But now I need to make gears to very specific sizes and my foggy brain cannot interpret the dialog box to do it beyond a simple diameter and tooth count.
When you refer to diameter are you talking Outside Diameter (O.D.) or Pitch Diameter (D)?
@jgb said in Any good tutorials on BEVEL gear design in SU?:
it produces gears that will be difficult to print; too many overhangs equates to a lot of tiny supports to be removed
Where are you getting these overhangs? Maybe you just need to invert the object. I expect you're going to have to live with some overhangs somewhere.
@jgb said in Any good tutorials on BEVEL gear design in SU?:
many line lengths are smaller than the printers print resolution.
Are you doing your modeling in millimeters? As I wrote before, do the modeling in meters. That is, treat millimeters as meters. So your 25mm gear would be 25 meters. When you export the .stl with model units set to meters, and them import the .stl into your slicer in millimeters, the gear will be the right size. For example, here's the SketchUp model of the gear I showed.
And the resulting .stl in the slicer. Same dimension numbers but in millimeters, not meters.
@jgb said in Any good tutorials on BEVEL gear design in SU?:
and two sets where the diameter ratios are 50mm:280mm and 50mm:140mm. Those are the hard ones to get properly meshed teeth with SPGears.
I don't think that's specific to the extension. Look at standard gear charts. You'll see that there are only certain combinations that work together.
Is it really the gear diamter that is important? Normally the gear ratio would specify the number of teeth. 50:280 as a gear ratio would also be 1:5.6 so you could start with some number of teeth for the small gear and multiply it by 5.6 to get the number of teeth for the large gear. The actual diameters of the gears may not be exactly 50mm and 280mm
