Posts made by gull

hi. i make fiberglass molds. I've drawn a male mold, made up of a number of components, to form a shower base and waste. is it possible to "drape" a 5mm layer over my mold, creating my female shower base skin, and then move it away and trim it and add strengthening and feet to display a final product. alternatively can i intersect it(mold) with a solid cube and then separate the two of them and edit them as required??

while i'm at it, have exploded a cylinder that was part of a component and i cant dimension the diameter because its been blown into segments. can i make those 24 line segments forming the end of the cylinder, back into a dimentionable circle??

hi again. most helpful. Gaieus your recommended tutorial was perfect. thanks for that. i found another tutorial on cabriol legs which got me through in a slightly different fashion as well. lucifer1101 i,m downloading sketch up 7 so i can check out your tutorial. thanks.

i can draw a curved wall. same kind of thing but i cant work out how to push a circle or rectangle through it.
thanks for your help to date, i appreciate it. noel d model is great - but not quite what i need.

hmm! hard to put into words obviously. the shape i wish to draw is not as complicated as soap and bubble pic. if i draw an arc, then offset it 20mm, then complete the ends, then pp that surface 150mm i am halfway there. now i want a curve on the top and a curve on the bottom.thats what i am struggling with.

if i draw 2 rectangles at 90 deg. to one another - one with the plan view, arc, offset 20mm with rectangle edges forming end- the other forming front elevation, arc, offset say 120mm with rectangle making ends then push pull these through each other so they are fully intersected. well... the piece in the middle of the intersection is what i want, if i could just trim away what is outside of the intersection i would have what i want.

sorry no can do the pic.

drawing the above. have tried drawing a rectangular block then arc on top and arc on front then pulled down arc to form curved face but can not push/pull through the other arc from face through the other curved face. i'll bet this is possible! like a curved wall might be drawn with an arched doorway cut through it.