If you want to have different contours on your way from contour A to contour B, Fredo's CurfiLoft is a great option...

... another SubD model test launch
of course the rocket itself could have been done with SU´s follow me tool but not the merging of the rockets torso and the wings. Without SubD's crease tool, the shown black-white pattern would not be that straight but wavy somehow ...

[The flames of the rocket boosters (which are cut-out PNGs) are made as Face Me components]

06_rocket._proxy.skp

...maybe the sice of the picture, which here may not be bigger than 1600 pixels wide and 1600 pixels high?

Hi - to get any first experiences I did a little testing, mainly based on Cottys SubD_04 model above. I was interested on how an existing texture behaves to the SubD process - it's amazing how confidently and fast that works ...

Cotty, how did you get this rainbow-colour on that subd23 chair which looks so great - is it texturing?

zipped skp2015 file

@cotty said:

Unsmooth quads from the quadface tools for the group

I see the Quads !!! :- )) Thanks Cotty

Hi All
I've finally found the time, to install and start SubD, which runs very well so far and I love it already. I am glad as well, that SubD is finally here and has caused all these contributions which are great, even funny and educational all together.

Now I'm working my way through all your contributions and the exercise models that you have posted here. Cotty and all the others - thank you all for posting them!!!

I understand why it is better to use quad faces instead of triangulation, even if I'm light years away to understand the connections to (for example) Quadfce tools and how or when to use these additional "Quad" tools - I´m starting to learn :- ))

Here is a first simple question
I show an example of Cotty - How is it possible to get this shown SubD-quad-mesh visible?
(I see the creases only and when I activate show hidden geometry, I see the creases and the triangulation of course)

now the table has become part of a very nice and lightly(?) furniture set.
A good job!
Amazing how filigran the small joint is between armrest and backrest...

These are nice pure SkUp-pictures indeed. I love your warm materialmood.
This desert place seems to be very lonely? - is this a real project?

I had to laugh A little about your description "...with...water closet"
because I hope that the closet has water at least

Will there be a rendered version? Anyway, thanks for sharing this work

@macker said:

No, as per the previous I have ruled out the surface normals direction.

"...the surface normals direction..."
it took me time to translate and realize that you mean the frontface-backface thing.
I mistook this sentence with something like orthogonal/perpendicular...

@panixia said:

the faster way is to symply pick the "tile 1x" option from tru-paint right click menu. (or, if you prefer, type in your vcb "1*" which actually will lead to the very same result)

thanks for pointing this out
some "not every day" things one forgets so easily

hmm, not sure if that's what you're asking.
The only reason I know for your described push-pull behavior is that su backfaces extrude in the opposite direction at the double-click method...

Hi Derei, I hope, that is what you are looking for

Fredo Tools / ThruPaint is a perfect tool for mapping, adjusting and even scaling or
rotating any texture on your cylinder.
Before doing so, adjust the size of your texture as desired so that it appears as
a already "fitting" material in your SU material window ...

http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=FredoTools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2QjLlUQVrY

+
the guys in Billund, Denmark don´t do it better! Thanks for sharing

Since my boys no longer play with LEGO (a few years meanwhile and I really miss these times), I am no longer LEGO-up to date.
Are these existing (and buyable) LEGO kits or have you designed them by yourself? Whatever your answer is - respect, a great job and I agree with Cotty - well presented.

Just for fun - here is Gandalf as we do not yet have seen him ;- ))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS0WvzRVByg

Thanks Dave for your very fast answer and testing!
This "cutting" method is not my usual workflow but this method could have been very helpful to speed up my current project - a great pity.
Since my question here refers to a very old basic SU workflow it's interesting that this "one face limitation" has not been mentioned so far...

I tried a little further now (please see case [3] below)
if you select a whole bunch of windows from one face and copy this bunch on a different face, the whole thing works this way at least and will help me to get along and probably all this is the normal behavior, which I did not use so far...

Thanks again

Hi all, I have a question which I´m almost ashamed to ask it here

It is a simple thing to create a window component. Is it just as simple to copy this window component on the same wall (please see case [1] below).

If I copy the same window component onto an other wall and try to copy both window components as done in case [1], this operation doesn´t seem to work (please see case [2] below).

Didn´t I understand any SU-principle or do I make any other mistake?
Since I have to handle an incredible number of windows on as many walls next week, I hope someone can give me a hint to my stupid question - thanks!

001.skp

Thanks Box for your note - anyway, I'll install SU 2016 asap in order to be up to date ...

Hi
I´m running SKP 2013 Pro and SKP 2015 Make. In both tools it is working as shown above.
Perhaps there is any shadow tool change in 2016 which I had not expected?

sorry that I could not help but for sure there are plenty people out there being able to help...

hmm - not sure if that´s what you are looking for?

I bow to this work and thank you for returning this beautiful movie memorie

@david_h said:

One of my all time favorite movies. . .

this is true!
a film category to which also belongs "Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes"