Wow Alan, I'm getting some amazing results using Artisan4sketchup. My first try looks like actual water ripples. Fantastic.

I've been trying out the Curviloft plugin. It's giving me something closer to what I'm looking for. If one of you plugin guru want to make a water plugin, I'd buy it for sure.

Hello all,

I've used sketchup to make mostly 2.5d parts to be machined on my cnc machine. Now I'm looking to do something in 3d. I have two table tops I'm trying to make. #1 is a wave starting from one corner of the table and ending at another. #2 is to have rain drop ripples. I've had some limited success using the follow me tool to create the rain drops and the wave. It's just neither of them looks organic enough.

Does anyone have some advice on how to make these kinds of of 3d textures? I've looked for a good tutorial on the matter but mostly what I've found is for rendering.

Hi all, I've been using SU for a few months now and have been loving every minute. I'm currently designing a cnc machine on it. Actually I've already started to build it.

I was wondering if I could select all the parts of my machine and have every individual part move away from all the adjoining parts. Kind of each part makes its own personal space.

Say if I have a screw, a washer, and a bolt, could I make them separate from each other without selecting and moving each individual part? Basically exploding the parts. I tried the explode option and it wasn’t what I thought it was. Or maybe I’m not using it right.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance, Chris