Topics created by Gene Davis

Hi Gene,

Nice table. I think I agree with Larry about the top thickness. It looks a little like Moser's Darling Study Table and the heaviness of the legs seems appropriate.

Regarding your drawing, I have a few questions/comments.

First, why is it upside down?

Second, One of the three central spindles on the ends is closer to the outside than the others. The related mortises are too. Is this intentional?

Third, a bit of advice. Make components instead of groups of the parts in the table. This will make your work much easier. For example, draw a leg, make it a component. Copy it (with Ctrl+Move) and Flip the copy to mirror it. Select both of the legs and copy them (again with Ctrl+Move) and Flip the new cpies to mirror them. Place all the legs in their proper positions. Then, when you edit them to add mortises or other details, you only need edit one instance of the component. The others will all be edited at the same time.

Keep plugging away and show us what you're doing.

Dave

Gene, I took Solo's tex and made it a little bit more tileable. Hope this helps. 😄

http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u173/Jon_Westwood/solotex.jpg

Gene have you tried using the Sandbox tools yet?
Looking at the image you posted they should suit you quite well.

Take a look here, there are several videos around No18

Gene - Dylan is correct that doing full construction drawings in SketchUp is not common. Most of us haven't attempted it. That isn't to say you can't -- whatever turns your crank. 😄

If you wanted to do your electrical plan in SketchUp you could create the various symbols as components that you could place on your plan as required. If you are a SketchUp Pro user you could alternately add your symbols and annotations using the LayOut program that comes with SketchUp Pro. In it you could more easily produce a SketchUp based set of construction drawings -- more easily than just using SketchUp.

Regards, Ross

Maybe you're searching for this topic? ❓

Gene,
I dealt with part of your question towards the end of this thread.
http://www.sketchucation.com/forums/scf/viewtopic.php?f=79&t=5929

I have attached a quick example here, in which I have used the standard cherry wood material from SU itself.
Rather than messing around with the material control handles...which can be a little messy if you have many orientations of the material to deal with...I simply painted it onto one surface (in order to load it onto the In Model collection) I then right-clicked the swatch in the In Model browser and exported the material as a jpg to my desktop. Obviously, you don't need to do this if you already have a bunch of wood textures as a starting point.

I then imported the image (as an image, not a texture), stretched it to a good-looking size, then duplicated it and rotated it to all the different angles I needed. I then selected all these and exploded them.
All you then have to do is sample the appropriate one (Paint Tool + Alt) then paint it onto your panel.

I have left hidden geometry showing in order to demonstrate that you can use lines, then hide them, in order to separate different angles of grain on the same flat surface. (Not so much for your benefit as for any passing complete beginner.)

You can achieve the same result by right-clicking any texture and choosing Texture > Position...I just find this way faster and more convenient.

panels.skp

panels.jpg

Gene, I just posted a link to the beginning of a tut over at JLC. This will be for a draped hip roof though and not for a dutch hip.

Here it is on yousendit.com
http://tinyurl.com/22gnqm