@schreiberbike said:
@unknownuser said:
I predict a ruby script some day that will allow bending as we wish.
That would be awesome, I've played with some boat building ideas and SU isn't the right tool for it. There's no way to identify which curves are possible and which are not. (Maybe there is, I just don't know what they are.)
Hmmmm! I have a little problem with that. SU is a lot more flexible than two inch thick oak, but boat builders could build some wonderful sailing vessels. I suspect SketchUp is just as capable if you replicate the same time tested techniques of a series of frames along a keel joined with planking. And if you think of rubies as the new power tools you could be very swift and efficient.
In fact Solo just posted a totally awesome(Dude!)skiddoo that is essentially a small boat with a large motor. Still the lines are clearly boat like. Anyone who designed a boat in the last 10,000 years would understand it was meant to be in the water even if the picture did not show the water. What's better (or worse for my ego) is that he said he drew it up in less than 2Hrs.
Now don't challenge me to do it, because I m not up to Solo's speed. I could get close in a month and a half if I worked nights as well as days. But the proof is right there in our galleries.
I guess you are saying that perhaps you could draw something that could not be built, but is that more a designer limitation than a SU imaging limitation? Could sketchy physics come to the rescue in the right hands? I suppose if you want to make a sphere or two hemispheres from two uncut sheets of flat plywood then yes, SU would probably not make it happen, but if you gave the 1800s naval architect Nat Hereshoff a week with sketchup, I guarantee he be churning out some great water craft in no time.
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