@wo3dan said:

Remus, Dave R,

Dave R, seamless?
It was only yesterday (= last year!) that I read about your advice somewhere in another thread about putting components (parts) seamlessly together by also erasing the inner faces.
Unfortunately now I can’t find it anymore.
Something you forgot to do here. But still, your credit. Nice useful component approach, also to Remus, thanks.

Whatchoo talkin' 'bout, Willis?

Yeah, I did neglect to delete those faces as I should have done. I was fending off a 3 year old while I was working. I fixed it though.

Very nice blinds Remus. I think those will come in handy.

I couldn't help myself. Had to see what I could do to reduce the file size a bit. I could reduce it more but this was quick. I did remove the wood grain texture figuring the user can add that later in their project if desired. I didn't change the pull cord but did modify the others. I also added a center section without cords that can be easily adjusted for length to make the blinds fit as needed.

blinds.skp

Remus, for something like this just remember to hide (Shift+Eraser) the edges that would form the seam line. Don't soften them. FWIW, I expect that the file size could be reduced even further without showing much in the model. If you notice, I quareted the sphere that makes up the little "toggle" on the end of the pull cord. Reducing the number of faces used to create that sphere would have helped a lot too.

Phil, I have also found that the straight output from SU seems a bit flat. Since I'm also a lazy old fart, I run the output through Picasa. All I do is open the image there and hit Auto Contrast. that seems to do the trick most of the time. Ctrl+S saves the correction and I'm finished.

I like this house. Is it going to be built locally? If so, what does it take to deal with snow loads? I ask because my S-I-L is looking to replace her house which overlooks Medicine Lake and I've been trying to convince her that she needs to do something along the lines of what you've drawn.

@mike lucey said:

Thanks Jim, Didier is truly the SketchUp Ruby Wizard, we all owe him a debt of gratitude.
BTW' "The pigs did an interpretive dance."! Do you have a picture

Mike

You're welcome Charley.

I'll have to look for a picture.

Dave

I was playing with Didier's Arc script and ended up with a spiral drawn in a golden rectangle. Thought that someday, someone might use it for something so here it is.spiral GR.skp

Actually, there is a script to do that. It is Rick W's Weld script. It's available through smustard.com.

Thank you.

You know you've had too much cold medicine when you can't recognize your own style. It's Old Paper Darker Lines from this thread. Sorry about that.

I wish there was some way to boost the contrast right in SketchUp. If there is, I haven't found it.

Did this last night. I was looking at the JPG export a little more today and decided I really like this. I'll have to see if I can figure out the combination of styles and if there's interest, post it when I get home. After exporting the JPG, I cropped and let Picasa do an Auto Contrast thing to arrive at this. BTW, I didn't design the wooden part of the sconce. Found it on the old SketchUp Pro forum. I did doodle up the shades.

@unknownuser said:

Please do.
I checked out the above link and did not want to register just to download.

Thanks Dave.

Done.

Cheers,

Dave

A SketchUp user elsewhere asked me how to create a cube with a radius applied to all the edges. I did the attached tutorial and illustration. Obviously this could be used for other shapes perhaps with slight modifications.

Here's the text to go along with it.

1. Square (12x12 inches in my example) with radiused corners. (1" in my example)
2. Pulled up so the height is the same as the radius. Delete upper face. Draw a radius profile on the inside.
3. Run Follow Me on the profile. Clean up as needed.
4. Heal face on top by tracing an edge with the Pencil tool. Use Push/Pull to pull the face up. (5" in my example. 1/2 the total height of the cube minus the radius dimension. Delete the face. Clean up any visible lines--Ctrl+Eraser.
5. Select the geometry and copy it with Ctrl+Move. Move it up above the original. Mirror it with Scale and -1.
6. Move the top down onto the bottom. Delete the seam line edges.

Howzzat?

Radiused Cube.skp

Thank you all. Jean-Franco knows.

I could post on SCF if it's thought to have some value.

Jim, I tried your line of code and it seemed to work. There was a stop after the DXF export for user acknowledgement that the export had completed. I imagine Rob would like even that to be automated if it could be.

I remember a parking structure from the 70s in Madison, Wisconsin, near the capitol building. You drove your car into a sort of box and got out. The operator gave you a tag with a number on it and wisked your car up and into a number space. It was sort of like a vending machine in reverse. Then when you wanted your car back, they sent the thing up to get it. It was all open steel structure and as I recall there was nothing but a grate under the cars. The thing put a lot of cars in a small space but I wouldn't want to have my car stuck under some old leaky thing dripping oil. I think they called it an automat.

Very nice work Gidon. And I see you're a celebrity. I love the suspenders.

Inspired by Ross's experiments with Sunflow, I decided to give it a try. This is the first render. Well, it's the fourth or fifth iteration. There is a point light and a directional light. GI was off and AA was set to High. Render time was 11:48. The numbers are from TTT (TIG's Text Tags).

In case anyone is interested in what the illustration is, this was a quickie done last night to show someone how to do a cube with all corners and edges radiused. It was still open on the computer this morning when I got up so I thought I'd use it.

Thanks to Didier and TIG

And happy holidays to all.

Thank you Dylan.

I just drew the model as built. A back rest seems like a good idea although I'm not certain how it would work.

I thought about modelling a bit of sag to the seat but decided not to complicate the model further. I hadn't noticed that it does look a bit sagged but that is certainly due to the texture.

Here it is after a short MLT render in KT.

I banged this out this morning. Thought I'd share. It's based upon the bench by Mark Edmundson that was featured in the same issue of Fine Woodworking that included some of my SketchUp drawings. The original has woven Danish cord seat. I'd like to find a better texture for that but if you don't look too closely, what I used seems to work alright.

Ross, we're in the same conditions as you are except we haven't got a greenhouse or grapefruit trees.

My brother bought some Adirondack chairs made out of the plastic-wood decking--Trex or whatever--they are nice because they don't need to be refinished and they are heavy enough so they won't blow away.

I know what you mean about them adding a nice touch to the mood of a model.

Best of the holidays to you.

Thank you Jerry.

Funny. I just made a marking gauge last Sunday for my brother. I didn't know it was a French one. He'll be even more impressed.



Birdseye maple, walnut, cherry.