Posts made by Goonster

@dave r said:

Open the drawer components and apply the materials to the faces instead of to the components. don't get sloppy now.

I did apply them to the faces.At least I thought I did anyway. I had to scale and position the textures on each face.I know because I had display driver problems a few times while I was doing it. The display driver stopped responding and has recovered' was the message I kept getting. Only ever happened when I was trying to scale and move/rotate the texture to fit a face. The one texture which definitely did need adjusting though was the one for the draw bottom. I have scaled that down a bit and it looks much better. Hang on - right Im with you now!The textures on the side panels on the inside don`t match the outside. My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out.

@dave r said:

Reduce the nesting on the drawer. You've got an extra layer of nesting which isn't needed. Look at the Outliner to get a clear idea of what's happening there.

As to the construction, I think for no bigger than the drawer is, you could get away with 12mm sides and back and the front could be 18 or 19mm.

With the nesting, I assume you are referring to the extra Mission Table Draw'. Im not sure how to fix this though. I can`t delete either or the draw is deleted. How is it done?

The measurements I took directly from Lucas plans. I didnt want to change anything in case I screwed things up. I`ll have a go with your suggestion though.

And thanks Luca. Practice makes perfect I guess - LOTS of practice!

Nice work!

Here is another table I have just completed. With this one I remembered Daves advice about flipping components so did that with a few of the sections. Once again, I used a real wood texture instead of SUs own for a better finish (I hope!). Some post processing done in Paint.Net to enhance the colours.

And the X-Ray version -

As U' is not assigned to anything I have used it for the offset tool.The icon is a lot like the letter U' anyway. This freed up `F' for follow me and as W is no longer used I have assigned it to Weld.

As I have gradually got used to using SU and all the default shortcuts I found there were a few gaps to be filled so I thought I would share the ones I added . Maybe they could be of use to someone else as well.

Follow Me tool - I used the letter %(#FF4000)[W]'. I was going to use F' but that is already assigned to the offset tool.

Delete Guides - when woodworking I tend to use plenty of guides which need deleting when Im finished so I used Ctrl-G' for this one so I dont keep having to scroll down to Delete Guides' in the Edit menu.

X-Ray - surprise,surprise I used %(#FF4000)[X]'. I always like to check the joints in my models so its quicker and easier to have a shortcut.

These are the ones I`ve added so far.

Anyone else with some useful shortcuts to add?

Oh yes - sorry Dave, should have read your previous post properly.

Luca your not wrong about the time it takes! As most of the parts were saved as groups instead of components I was able to texture each side of each part separately. And that did take a while. But the slats were components so everything I did to one I did to the rest as well.

Dave surely flipping the texture would flip ALL the textures on the slats? Or is there a way of flipping without affecting the texture on the other components?

Here is an outdoor table I made using another of Lucas woodworking plans. I think they are great. This one was definitely more challenging than the last one, with all the little spacers in the grooves holding the slats. I used a wood texture off the web for this one instead of SU own wood and tried to get each piece unique, but the slats were components so when I painted one I painted them all although I dont think it shows too much.. I`ve included an X-ray version as well.

I`ve just noticed in the x-ray pic - I forgot to paint the spacers!

Thinking out it, I think yours, Jeff, is the easiest one. I use a similar system with Paint.Net to open different sized templates to start off with. Don`t know why I never thought of it before. And with Win7 you can pin the various different ones to the jump list for easy access.

Thanks for all the advice, much appreciated.

I was just wondering if it would be possible to have more than one Sketchup installed. At the moment I have SU set up to use the woodworking template,however occasionally I need to use a different one for other work. If it was possible to have 2 SU`s installed I could set one up with one template and the other with a different one which would make it so much easier instead of having to open the program , change the template, close it and open it again with the new template.

Here is the finished table.

I think you did a great job with the table. It looks great.

Yes I did leave out the molding on the legs. I just wanted to get on with the joints. I`ll probably add it later.

dedmin - the gun? Not with you .

I love it Luca. Thanks so much for posting it.

Thanks for all the advice on materials. I`ll have to have a proper read of that link before I do any texturising. Thanks Dave.

Heres how Im getting on so far -

And an X-ray version -

OK I`ll do that then. Thanks.

I am building a table using a plan drawn by Luca Dal Molin from SketchupWoodPlans.com. The reason was mainly to get acquainted with the various different joints - dovetail, mortis & tenon etc. It is the first time I have attempted something this complex. My bird tables were OK but there was not much in the way of joints to worry about. This will test me a bit more, especially my accuracy when assembling the different parts. I was just wondering if it would be better to add the wood texture to the different pieces as I progress or should I leave it until the end?

Thanks. I`ll take a look.

Found it. Thanks . Your right it is tricky to find.

I was just looking at Dave Richards Making Waves tutorial on the Fine Woodworking website and he mentions a native plug in in SU called Point at Center. I looked in the extensions menu and I have the right boxes ticked but the plug in does not appear . I looked for it on the Ruby plug ins menu website but while there are some point plug ins , Point at Center is not there either.
Has this plug in been incorporated into another one in an update or has it just been removed entirely?

All I get is `File Not Found'.

If the tutorial has been removed maybe the link to it should be removed as well. Shame though.

My second bird table. I have nicknamed this one PollyTable as it used a polygonal shape. The first pic is how it was originally but I decided to add an overhang which can be seen in the close up.