Posts made by Gidon Yuval

@solo said:

You put Sketchup and Smustard on your Shotdog.

Excellent!

when you try to think of a way to use FFD on yourself instead of going on a diet.

when you try to Push/Pull your hamburger and french fries to super-size them.

...when you have to teach your young child to read a watch so you spend 6 hours modeling a Rolex.

I thought it would be fun to see how we would define ourselves as heavy SU users.

Just add your own definitions.

Here's mine:

You Know you're a SU addict when... you try to turn the page of a Word document using the orbit tool.

I used a method similar to Remus but with ctrl+erase between steps so that clean up is quicker and easier.

Have a look at the attached file.

Twisted collumn.skp

Hi sweetluge,
Make sure the face you are tring to create is on one plane only i.e. totally 2 dimensional.
Could you post the file so we can have a look at it?

Excellent!

Bob, that's a beautifully presented explanation.
How did you produce that page?

Mike, that's exactly the sort of feedback I'm looking for.
Your ideas for a fastener selection tool and the centering tool are construction design oriented and that's what we'll be concentrating on at first. Actually, the fastener tool is already a part of our planned 'Construction Method' tool wherein you would be able to define a construction method and apply it to the cacasses in your project.

Thanks to everyone for your input.

I'm in Tel-Aviv.
It's a pity we don't have that much wood in Israel. Wood houses are rare in Israel because traditionaly, people built their homes from the materials they found around them and I this part of the world that means stone. But stone can't hold a candle to the insulating properties of wood and it's also much harder to work with. I wish we had vast forests of timber.
Oh well

This will make fine weekend reading.
I'll report back as soon as I've finnished it.

Bob, thank you so much!
What a great resource!

Very impressive for a first model!
Good work!

Excellent resources guys.
Thanks

Looks great, Csaba.
I'll try it out.
If I can park short videos there then I'll be able to do tutorials with Camtasia for the Newbie forum.

May the best you've ever seen be the worst you'll ever see.

Yes, the grain orientation is a great idea but as with some of the other ideas in the replies so far it has more to do with rendering and design than with production tools.
We'll get to design and rendering tools later. What we're working on now is more along the lines of the tools that will assist in production planning. For example, say you'd drawn a unit 90cms long with 6 drawers and you decide you want it 110cms long. We're working on a tool that will streach the unit without screwing up the scale of the parts. In other words, the parts will rearange themselves according to the new dimmensions with only those parts that have to be lenghthened changing thier dimmensions and only along the relevant axis.
See what I'm saying? That's a tool that will be a huge help insofar as production planning goes. It has little to do with the aesthetics of the piece.

@chiefwoodworker said:

I just downloaded it and will play with it tonight.
Thanks for the tip.

Hey Joe, did you get around to playing with 'Wink'?
You might want to try out Camtasia too.
I use it a lot. It's excellent.

Hi Irv, and welcome to the forum.
I know that SU files can be exported as dwg and dxf files, if that's any help. Most CNC machines that I know work with dxf files. I would suggest checking the 'Help' files on your machines software to see if it is possible to convert dwg or dxf files to the kind of files the machine uses.
You might also post this question on the 'Hardware, Software&Gadgets' sub-form at the Corner Bar on the Board index. Thats where the computer literate SketcUpers hang out .

Anyway, good to have you with us.