John, thanks. He is a pretty happy kid most of the time. He's been giving me grief lately about building another boat. He isn't even 4 yet and he wants to build a boat.

I wondered about those cleats. I figure when he's about 6 he's going to get the idea of cutting the boat down and dragging it off to the local creek to see if it floats. I designed it to be waterproof from the inside out. Not the other way around.

That's cool. Well, I won't be getting any work done for awhile now. I'm going to be playing with this instead.

Thank you sir. I'll take a look at that. I managed to get something to work which I show, below. Figuring out the axis orientation was a bit of trial and error but then I haven't had much use for the script before.

I can't take credit or blame for the frame of the chair. Only the placement of the slats.

Hi Bob,

Thanks. I hadn't thought about moving the axis. I'll give it a whirl

Dave

Thanks guys. Rick, maybe we did e-mail about this but I don't remember it. I should have attached a picture of what I ma trying to do. This is the start of an Adirondack chair that another guy is working on. He asked for an easy way to get the slats laid in place. I started with the one at the bottom and the edge of the rail for the path. You can see what happened after doing the copy thing. The brown slat in the foreground is the original.

I did work out a method for positioning the slats correctly but it is very tedious moving and rotating them.

Rick, I'll try rotating things so the slats run vertically if you think that would help.

Things are kind of fuzzy in my old age but I seem to recall some talk about a plugin that would not only copy a component along a path but would also orient the components so they would lay on the path. Think about the planks on an arched bridge in a Japanese garden. Does such a critter exist? I have Rick W's pathcopy which will give me the components spaced along the path but they don't end up laying on the path even though the original one is.

It seems like just lately the lines in the drawing window and even in exports at 3000 pixels wide have been looking like there's no anti aliasing going on. I don't see any problems in other applications although the exports to Layout are pretty bad. I've tried making adjustments in the OpenGL box but I don't seem to have any luck. I have the latest video drivers for my FX5500 card. I tried maually adjust anti alias setting in the video settings for the card but that just made things worse. Am I missing some setting in SU? Any other suggestions?

Thanks Joe. I think I would agree. I think he's a pretty cool kid but of course I'm biased. At least I'll get another chance on the boat.

Sorry, that's the term for the things that give shape to a boat. For example, in the following sketch the three lighter colored vertical pieces are the moulds. The moulds don't stay in the boat when the boat is removed from the building jig.

This is drawn based upon the cradle boat I designed and built for Ian before he was born. It is a pram and so the end pieces (darker brown in the sketch) are both called transoms. Of course they stay with the boat.

FWIW, here's a picture of the cradle taken when Ian was about 2 1/2 years old. He's definitely outgrown it. Now the boat is an ark for all the stuffed animals. Once in awhile he'll pull the animals out of it and climb in. The planks are only 1/8" thick pine and I'm always amazed when he climbs in it and it doesn't break.

Very nice Gidon. I like the idea of getting kids involved with woodworking. My three year old son loves to spend time in my shop. Once in awhile he asks when we're going to build a boat. It'll be a little while yet but I've got his second boat picked out. His first boat is too small for him now.

After I get the cedar chest finished for his mother, we'll have to get the moulds out for the boat.

Just a guess but are the line segments in the imported spline very short? It could be that they are shorter than the shortest line segment in the style. Or short enough that with Halo enabled in the style (if that is the case) that no line segments are displayed. It happens on small or high-segment circles and arcs sometimes. too.

@schreiberbike said:

It's great to have this forum available. I'll be referring people here often. I was reluctant to to do that before, because people often got the impression that SU was an architect's tool and it turned people off from the site.

I'm zeroing in on a workbench design which I plan to start on soon. Let me know if you have any suggestions. My first suggestion on the topic is to read Christopher Schwarz' new book. I learned lots from it and am now re-designing based on what I learned there.

Hey John, Have you looked at John White's New Fangled Bench referenced by Gidon? Unless you have in mind to build one of those benches that ought to be in a living room, the NF Bench seems like a good option.

I want to take a look at Chris Schwarz' book. He asked me to fix the three SU models of the benches so that they'd actually be usable models. I need to get that work done. Anyway, good luck on a designing your bench.

Gidon,

I think that bench is very good. It is flexible in use and fairly inexpensive to build. I drew it up as per the article you referenced. I'm planning to build it but I'll have to make it shorter to fit in my shop.

Recently I've been hired to do some drawing by several different clients. I've got a cabinet maker for whom I'm doing everything from concept to construction drawings, cutlists, etc. Currently he and I are working on projects for four different clients. I'm doing drawings for the instruction manual of a new (top secret) woodworking machine and drawings for an instruction manual in rewrite for another machine.

So, my question to theprofessionals out there is this: How do you organize your work so you can keep things straight? How do you keep track of time spent on each project? What do you do with the papers generated for projects? What about organizing files to keep them straight?

I still have my day job to do and a family to tend to. This drawing work is part time stuff for me but there's enough of it that I have to do something so I can remember what I'm working on and for whome I'm doing it.

Very nice Gidon.

Maybe I should loan you my hand drill. It only drills angled holes.

Thank you very much, sir.

I did a search with no luck so I'm asking.

I recently added Didier's Points Cloud plugin which requires Delaunay2.rb. It appears the link on didier's site to it is bad and I haven't found another source for it. Would someone be able to stick it in a post in this thread? I'd appreciate it.

Thanks,

Dave

This is kind of interesting.
http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/

I would like to create some materials that look similar to the wood grain textures applied to the box in the attached image. Does anyone have any thoughts about how to do that?

Thorn Bush.