I have read through the comments and you briefly describe your process for creating the hull in one of them. Do you have any photos showing the steps of this process or could you post some photos. Did you do all this work with the free version or the pro version? Any special plugin's?

Speaking for myself there are a lot of model shipwrights who are looking for a CAD program that they can use to build ship plans with, your work clearly proves that SketchUp is very capable of this in the right hands. Is is possible to get your model for study purposes at least the hull section?

Thanks

Back when I was in vocational drafting school during my high school days, we did several classes on surface and package developments, where you take a cone, or box, or a circular truncated shape and develop the shape or lay it out in such away that it could be cut out and then folded up. Does SketchUp have a plugin for doing something like this?

Is it possible to turn the infrencing off in SketchUp?

Is there anyway to add folders to the layers panel to group layers?

The arc I was attempting to create is very big arc. First establish a baseline, erect a perpendicular line on the end to the right. Call it FP. Then, erect a second perpendicular line from the FP to the left a distance of 182 feet and call it AP. Then erect a third perpendicular line from the FP to the left a distance of 63 feet 11-3/4 inches, call it dead flat. You should have now have one base line and 3 perpendicular lines. Mark off a distance from the base line at the dead flat of 24 feet. At the FP mark off a distance of 26 feet and mark off a distance at the AP of 26 feet 3 inches. Now construct an arc through the 3 distance pts you just established. Just so you know the apex or bottom of the arc will pass below the baseline, which is ok, what I want is for the arc to pass through the 3 pts. I set my arc segments to 1000.

I'll have to give jean's idea a try.

I have tried this numerous times using the arc tool but I cannot get the arc to pass through all three points. Is there a another method?

I am running in Decimal-Inches. Length snapping is turned off and precision is set to 0.000000". This is the Product Design Woodworking template. The issue seems to exist on my PC and Laptop.

Where's a Starship Trooper when you need one

@remus said:

Sounds like it might be a bug, could you post a pic of the problem though? im having a little trouble understanding what your trying to do.

Thanks, I took screen capture. What you can't see is the tape measure tool, however what I am referring to as indexing is how the tape measure tool automatically selects the blue axis. Note I am in the front view. If I switch to the right or left and views the tape measure tool, or any of the drawing tools fail to see the blue or green axis. It doesn't inference them; maybe that is the correct term. I am in parallel projection mode, but I wouldn't think it would matter.

How do you create construction points in SketchUp?

Whenever I am in the right hand view or left hand view, I cannot get the tape measure tool to index from the blue or green axis. If I switch to the iso view, the tape measure tool easily indexes off the axis. I don't have this problem in any other views just the right and left. In fact none of the drawing tools will index or find the center point of the blue and green axis. I am using version 7.1. Does anyone else have this problem? I just want to create a guideline 24 inches from the blue axis.

@dedmin said:

Activates the select tool at startup and when starting a new file or opening an existing file
http://www.smustard.com/script/SelectAtStartup

Wow! That's nice. Thanks

I read about how to make your own custom template and how to set SketchUp so it opens with this template. But no matter what I do, my template opens with the Pencil tool selected. Is there an option to change this so that when SketchUp opens it has the Select tool selected? Also, I would like the components panel to open to the In Model window rather than the Google search window.

@tig said:

2D Tools z-plane ?

Are you referring to a ruby script or is there a 2D tools in the SketchUp?

Is there a way to create a plane in SketchUp and then use that plane to sketch on?

Thanks everyone. I switched the open GL to "maximum texture size" and the image is much clearer and not as fuzzy. It still imported at a smaller size, but then I just scaled it up to the correct size.

I have a jpg image I want to import into SketchUp. It measures 26-3/4 wide by 7-1/4 high and is 150dpi. When I import the image it is smaller and does not appear to have the same dpi. My question is, what is the best dpi to use when importing images.

I just joined the forum and found this thread on the HMS Ontario. As a model shipwright I was most impressed with your work. I had a question, how you were constructing the hull's and if you use any specific ruby scripts? I am working on a 16 gun brig and could use some insights.