Thanks for your advice Jeff, i have been attempting to learn the basics and the basics of the panelling tools in Rhino. Its quite easy once you have a little play on it, but still need a lot of practice on it, going to have to cram as much play on it as i can before the beginning of term time. . . in less than a week. do you have any quick tips for Rhino? I have still been playing around with SU and have got some positive outcomes form all the advice, so thank you.

Shura, thank you too for sharing your great ideas on the different effects in your earlier post, i have been playing about with the plugins and they seem to be working for me, once i got the hang of what i can do with each, so i think its just a matter of time and practice.

Kyle

Thanks for that Jeff.

Joebamber, I was thinking that unfolding the surface would be a way of achieveing this. Is there a plugin that will allow the surface to be unfolded, even on curved and organic shaped objects?

Thanks for your help

Kyle

Wow, this help is overwhelming.

Jeff, I had no idea there was a beta for Rhino for mac, thank you very much for informing me. The model you created in Rhino is exactly the kind of surfaces i would love to achieve. Was this hard to do in Rhino?? I am completely new to it. Also the sketchup model you did in your previous post, how was this done? Really sorry for all the questions, but these are all models i would love to try and create.

Shura, thanks for your input. The examples that were in your post are also similar to what i would love to create. Where the patterned surfaces done in Sketchup and in the technique you posted in an earlier message?

Thanks again, your help and advice is much appreciated.

Kyle

wow, thanks shura and jeff! some great help there, i will have a play with all your ideas and maybe if there good enough post them to show you the outcome! Thank you very much again

Oh, and Jeff i will put a request into the plugins forum asap

Kyle

Hi guys,

I am just refreshing my SU skills for the coming university year, and i am just wondering wheteher in SU parametric style patterns can be created easily? Here is an example of what i mean. I am very intrigued to try and create something similar in sketchup. Thanks in advance for your help.

Kyle

Hi Jeff,

Thank you very much for the reply and the useful information. I will look into this, seems like a better way to achieve what i want than what i was attempting to do. I will have a play about with the ideas you have on how i could achieve this. Thanks again

By the way, do you know what the plugin called that is used to create the wiggly line in the video??

Hi guys,

I am just wondering if anyone could help me. I am trying to create an even grid of perforations/openings on a organic curved object in Sketchup. Heres is an example of how i want it to look like. I want the openings to be of similar size all the way round the object. I have tried to drape the shape of the opening on the object, however when it comes to the curved corners, the shape of the opening becomes distorted and nothing like the original shape I am trying to achieve. Thanks in advance for your help.

Kyle

Brilliant, thanks Fredo, had a feeling it was something as simple as that.

Hi,

I am just wondering if anyone can help me. I have installed both lib fredo file and the round corner plugins as instructed, however when i launch sketchup, i get a warning message that says

*"Cannot load plugin Round Corner because the script cannot create DEFPARAM_Dir folder in: Users/kylebc86/Library/Application Support/Google Sketchup 7/ Sketchup/ Plugins

Please create it manually respecting the case"*

Anybody have any idea what i need to do. Thanks in advance

Kyle