I've been trying to make up some more styles that kind of look like old drawings or paintings. This is a WIP style. The lines are some of Ross' lines. Thank you Ross.

Edited to add: I forgot to mention that the image, above, had a bit of post processing done in the form of boosting contrast with Picasa. Just the Auto Contrast thing.

The next image is without adjustment and with a different line style.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/weekender410/NF_BenchOldLinen2.jpg
And on faux marble
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/weekender410/NF_BenchMarble.jpg

Edson, thank you.

Gai, I guess I missed a step?

It looks very good. I need to try using it as a floor for some of my furniture. Thank you for posting it.

BTW, a safe will fly if there's enough power.

RBS files work as RB files. They are Secured or Scrambled by the author but SketchUp can still read them. There should be no reason to change the extension. Which plugins did you download? Knowing that will help us get you going with them.

Gregg Carlson's Hulls application is definitely a good one. I've been using it for 5 or 6 years. I used it to design the cradle boat I built for my son. I think I've shown it elsewhere so I won't bore you all with it now.

I use this method frequently when I want to show two views of something in the same image. The "mirror frame" and surface aren't required but I find that they help to communicate that the viewer is looking at a mirrored view. Here are a couple of examples.

@schreiberbike said:

Looks great Dave. The grain is especially nice. I do notice that the shadow lines are sharper than the rest of the model.

Thanks John. I hope SU V7 has sketchy shadows, too.

Remus, thank you.

Ah, ok. Post-processing involved cropping the JPG and letting Google Picasa do an automatic contrast adjustment. It's a trademarked process I invented but I'd happily sell you the rights to use it.

Pre-post=processing involved adding my Old Paper style to the model before export. You can get the style here: http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=2624

Thank you. What part do you want to know?

Last night I got an e-mail from a high school industrial arts teacher in Los Angeles. He was looking for some help on a mission style clock. Here's what I drew for him. Actually, I kind of dressed it up for the picture. After getting a bit more information from him, I'll be making shop drawings so his students can build this clock as a project.

I've been playing with styles again and wondering if anyone has thoughts on how to improve the contrast in the view. I realize that my overlay is causing the problem but if I set the transparency slider more toward the Model side, the overlay disappears. I can adjust the contrast in my image editor but I'd like to be able to do it up front. Do I need to make a PNG with in this case the grain on a transparent background? Here are a couple of examples. The contrastier one was adjusted in my image editor.

I'm not at my Mac right now so I don't know for sure about this. What if you click in one of those little white squares below the Close button? Do you get an option to set a new color?

Where's the "dope slap" smilie?

I was doing it in reverse, trying to make a group of a components. Thanks Coen. I gotta think inside the box.

Coen's post makes me ask, is there anyway to make this work on a component instead of or in addition to a group?

This is very nice Mike.

My apologies. I probably shouldn't have posted that. I've removed it.

Thanks. the Padauk is mine. Edited from something else but I don't recall what. The Wenge is from a pretty good photo of it. The QWSO was from an image I found with a Google search but it was made usable by our very own Modelhead and in a thread in the Materials forum.

I probably should have quite sanding at 220 grit.

Yup. That's what I did alright.

Thanks for the help.

Dave

Very cool script. Thank you.

I do seem to being doing something wrong with it though. (Leave it to me to break it. ) See the attached screen grab.

I drew a sphere centered on the blue axis and above the ground plane. After moving a single point marked at the top and updating, the egg moved off to where it is now. What did I do wrong?

BTW, this model utilizes a hidden seam line on the front and back pieces to help keep the entity count down a bit.