Posts made by Jersey22651

Thank you all for your help.

Dave R: I have no experience modeling a bolt head as shown in your picture. That is exactly what I want the hammerhead to look like.

Would you mind providing information on how to do this?
Or, refer me to a tutorial somewhere?

Referring back to my hammer pic, my goal is to maintain the sharp edge on the outer or larger octagon, the true 45-degree angle descending into a circle on the face. Reiterating that I want the bevel to look as if it were cut on a lathe.

It is fine if this cannot be exactly done in sketchup.

I just need to know if it is possible and if so, how.

I designed a small sledge hammer to be made of brass and used for display.

I actually made one about almost 50 years ago and decided to craft one for my grandson.

The 45-degree bevel on each end of the original hammer was machined on a lathe.

In Sketchup I beveled the octagon on the ends of the hammer using Fredo6 Round Corner and, as seen in the drawing below, the face of the hammer is also octagonal.

I tried to make the face at the end of the bevel round while keeping the octagon at the top of the bevel without success.

Does anyone have any idea if this can be done?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Don

I was also doing them manually. I'd spend 30 minutes or so disassembling duplicates of dressers, beds, bookcases tables and just about everything. I was curious if there was an extension to explode them and it didn't surprise me to see someone had. After some tweaking of the coordinates I will record them and just apply them. A few seconds sure beats the way I'm currently doing it.
Again, thanks for finding it for me.

Thank you for the quick response. It works great!

I am looking for an Extension or Plugin that will take apart my model and show them explode like in the attached file.
Thanks,

Don

Can anyone direct me to a site to download HouseBuilder Plugin (non-metric)
The site that directs me to the download seems to be hacked.
If that is the case, can anyone email me a copy of the plugin?
Thank you.

Don Jusiak