The model is far from perfect, so do one by yourself if you want good results.

Ok, let's have a more simple workflow:

Spacetruss.skp

3D text, extrude, scale tool,intersect…

Des lions se serait bien…et puis des martyrs?

Des lions se serait bien…et puis des martyrs?

We were more to those in France:

You should post to dynamic components.

Never seen this kind of pavement before, is this a local pattern?

You should post post your model SU V8 so everyone can open it, also if some of the groups are not solid try Solid solver (TIG) or/and solid inspector (Thomthom).
Then select all the groups you want to intersect with the major group, explode them and group, you should have a solid group; proceed outershell.

Lot of work after this to make a decent model…

This could be a first step:

You should have use boolean first, now you can group your geometries and try Solid Solver.

Something like this?

@surfmike said:

Hi! Is there any chance to override the maximum segments (300s) for each bezier curve made?
//Mike

Select the 300s curve, right-click/Explode, right-click/Convert to Catmull spline = 1800s.

Just playing with basics,

brought me to some questions:

When you at the screws,
-one is static mesh and is collision shape fits perfectly.

• to achieve the same collision shape for the mobil oneI had to it with several components.

Any reason the soft isn't able to calculate the same collision shape but not static?

To make those movements running well I used a workaround.

For rotation we have hinge, motor, servo.
For translation we have slider, piston, why not a linear motor?
For translation + rotation we have corkscrew, why not motor + linear motor , servo + piston, servo + linear motor , linear motor + piston?
For curve we have curvy slider and curvy piston, why not a curvy motor and curvy piston?

Nota bene: just curiosity here, no request.

Vis MSPhysic.skp

@surfmike said:

JGB,
Thanks for helping out, I fully understand your instructions.
However, when I color the line by axis it shows beziers with parallell red end lines (7,2mm on above, 0,045mm in the below line) in each half.
Maybe 0,045mm is too short to be recognized correctly, but in the final skinning group there's parallell lines alright even though 0,045mm became 1,06mm (see attached pic).
But the issue is that inbetween those perfectly parallell lines the skin gets a "V" shape... (???)
//Mikael

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P.S The unconnected edges was a unpleasant result of copy/paste 300s beziers from SU2016 to 2015. D.S

You don't need to copy/paste from SU2016 to 2015, just Save as and choose the SU version.

Also when you work at this scale make a component, copy/paste this component, scale the copy X100 or X1000 and work with the copy, 0,045mm is far from the tolerance of SU to create faces.

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Hi.
The model consists of two components.
I've done all curves with "Classic bezier curve", and all are "infinite curves" following the green/red/blue axis when placing control points.
Still I got some kind of "V shape" in the front curved panel, see picture and file (concerning file size I had to remove the mesh).

How can I avoid this? I tried to elaborate by changing settings but with no luck.
The person solving this will be a Nobel prize prospect...

Thx!
//Mikael

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Give me the Nobel (don't forget the$ ).

I had issues with MS UI: modifying values, sometimes works sometimes not.

Then I notice this: typing a value +enter or tab does not work.
Typing a value + click outside the input box works…

Just for anybody else having the same troubles.

Mac OSX 10.8.5, SU2015.

Théo Jansen.

http://www.strandbeest.com/index.php

Thanks Anton,

Very nice tool you made there.

THEO.skp