Really first class work

Well, I hope you're happy - your model got me interested in windmills, and I've started work on my own model. Going nuts with it, as usual. I really didn't need another project right now, and I'm blaming you personally.

Ah, I have fond memories of raking my shag carpeting.

Dang, I was gonna ask about the lava lamp! too slow

Hmmmm...bean bag chair! Yeah, that's what it needs

Very nice work

Fantastic work, Pete. Love the detailing

So this is what you do when you have some time on your hands. I would need about three months to come even close

forgot one

WOW!

John, you know the trouble with always posting such incredible models - people run out of laudatory comments and end up repeating themselves.
Like so....

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I appreciate all the input and suggestions, but no one seems to be addressing the fact that after I copy and paste the model to a fresh instance of SU, all problems are solved, it behaves perfectly normal until after a time it slowly starts to go bad again. I don't think anything that has been suggested so far would allow that to happen, the problem(s) would be just be copied along with the model.

I don't claim to know that much about how SU works, but that seems logical to me. Maybe not Spock logical, but at least Steve logical

@box said:

As a premium member you have the ability to set up a private room where you can get advice and discuss things privately.

Yes, I know that, but what would be the advantage of going that route? Seems to me like it would only serve to restrict the visibility of the thread. Am I wrong?

@pilou said:

Maybe some malwares ?

I'm very scrupulous about protecting myself when online, and regularly check my computers for anything that shouldn't be there. And while I realize that even the best efforts cannot completely protect you, how would a malware affect only one model?

@box said:

I hate these guessing games. But are you using layers correctly, have you somehow got raw geometry on something other than layer0 or have you made another layer the active layer.
Have you imported a cad file that could be throwing things off.
Any other non standard things you may have done?

You're absolutely right, if I'm not willing to post the model I shouldn't have even started this thread. My apologies.

There is nothing different about this model from any other model I've made, it's just a model. I've never used cad files.

What I don't understand is why does everything work fine after I copy and paste everything into a fresh copy of SU, and then slowly it goes to hell again? Makes no sense to me, but nothing about this makes sense to me

@tig said:

Have you used Model Info > Statistics to both Purge Unused and Fix Problems ?

I regularly use the Purge plugin, and while I don't use the statistics/fix problems, each time I save a model it does automatically check for problems, and fixes them if I tell it to.

@driven said:

does the 'Outliner' show the expected structure of your nesting?

While I haven't specifically checked that, when I click through to get to something, it does so as expected.

I've been working on a model for a while now. Nothing special about it, just a model, about 9MB so far.

BUT....

Maybe four days ago, strange things started happening. It became very difficult or impossible) to select edges in some of my components. When attempting to connect a line to a point in the component, it absolutely would not find that point. Sometimes I could not select anything in the component, it's like it was a ghost. When I would attempt to select a face, or anything, it instead selected whatever was behind the component. When I made something a component, it would jump in a random direction, sometimes shifting on an axis as well. When I copy a line, and connect that line to the original line, it does so, but at an angle. Sometimes when I attempt to scale a component, the scaling box appears not around the component, but somewhere else.

Well, you get the idea.

The only way to regain control of the model was to copy and paste it to a blank SU. Then things were fine. For a while. Then they would start to go downhill again, until once again I was forced to repeat the process.

I've encountered none of these problems while working on other models, so I assume it's not a problem with SU. (SU 2015, by the way)

I've been battling this thing for days now. It is driving me completely nuts, and I'm sure my blood pressure is off the scale.

Short of bringing in an exorcist, any suggestions?

And, no, I'd rather not post the model, it's a WIP. I'd just like to know if anyone else has encountered problems similar to those I've described.

You talk about things that still need to be done to it - from where I sit it looks absolutely perfect!

It's a chair that I could see myself taking a long nap in. Actually, a long series of long naps. Getting sleepy just talking about it.

Although I can also picture waking up with some very interesting "tire tread" marks on my arms

(can you make me a nice big wicker recliner? I'll give you my cat and half my balogna sandwich)

(the dang cat ate the other half )

I really like your work, nicely done.

But those bar stools, I don't know. I can see no advantage to the design, and a lot of disadvantages (like medical lawsuits )

Just sayin'

Very impressive work!

I've always liked that distinctive creaking sound wicker furniture makes when you sit on it. I can almost hear that sound just looking at your amazing model. Well done, sir!

Wow, 259MB!!! While I admire your incredible attention to detail, you might consider figuring out how to make do with using a component for the rope vs groups. After all, unless the rope is glued to the beam, would it really follow every contour of the beam?

This is not meant as a criticism, your modeling skills are impressive to say the least, just a suggestion.

Finally found something on Ebay with actual dimensions that I can use to make sure things are located accurately.

Lots of work to do now. Fun time

@omikron said:

As a classic car fan I have to say this is the best 3D model of a classic car in the whole world.

Thanks, but even my best efforts are tinkertoys compared to this guy's work

http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81%26amp;t=40998%26amp;hilit=extremely+talented+modeler

@cotty said:

With 4 more mirror actions? Maybe I'm not able to understand the problem here...

I'm not asking about assembling the model, I'm asking about assembling the real thing, made out of real wood. I've assembled some furniture that involved getting multiple dowels into their respective holes, and sometimes it proved very difficult, especially if the holes were close together, like the slots in your box.

Again, not a criticism, just curious.

Not sure how your animated jif was relevant to my question. It only showed how you made the slots. My question was about actually assembling the box, getting all 36 of the slats inserted into the 72 slots. Probably a simple task, but still beyond my even simpler mind. Just wondering.

Nice!

Any estimate on the number of cuss words required to fit all the slats into the slots?