@rv1974 said:

Great idea Chipp!
After watching this comparison I have no doubt blender was built by aliens for aliens. I'm not sure it's suitable for Archviz. Are there any plans (in Blender community) to make some kind of fork that will look like conventional 3D software?

Here under UI / Template, they are talking about Blender 101, so we will see if that would take some edge of that steep learning curve. These days I am trying to use Blender for UVs.

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A design document to guide the Blender 2.8 development, and centralize its big picture and main goal ideas.

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Maybe this?!
http://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sc-41_133b_157-_-wallace-office-viewc-1.jpg

Did you go through this post?
https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=57637

Leave it! All is there.

I think any gaming laptop would do. I got older one Asus G750jz and it serves me well.
Go for i7, min 16GB RAM, SSD (not smaller than 256GB) + HDD and best Nvidia GPU you can afford. Buy one with Thunderbolt 3 so you could, later on, buy an external case with full-sized desktop GPU and speed up your GPU+CPU rendering, if this $1K would not get you good GPU. You could go with 15" display and add one larger desktop monitor (24"+).

Here are steps I used in form of SU file.

Ananas_v1-1.skp

You need three support groups:

• That 1/2 of cylinder is first
• Projection plane is second
• Connecting edges are third
  You need to group them each and all together. See how mine is grouped.
  You place geometry you want to lay down onto cylinder on a projection plane.
  Then you use Flowy.

Maybe this video can explain it better than the last one I posted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c76j5NNkhM

Cool, post a pic of the finished print.

Hi, Fredo scale does have taper scale so see if you can use that for scale.
Here is a file I created using Flowify plugin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STDljROiq1k&t=443s

Flowify plugin

Try with this plugin...
https://sketchucation.com/plugin/1406-flowify

Great, looking forward to seeing it completed!

This is the completely useless edition for anyone who needs to pay for an upgrade from 2016, 2017 to 2018.
I really think that Sketchup is freeloading on plugin developers work for last two editions, to put it mildly without strong words.
One software as Blender gets a more overall update from version to version, and it is free for any use than one that you pay and get cosmetics.
Blender is developing Evee for version 2.8 next year and all we get from 2017 to 2018 is smoother graphics and smart sections.
My first impression of this is just sadness and disappointment.

For me, it works just fine. First I select edges I want to round and then use FollowMe tool.

You could write it down in Illustrator or similar vector software, export it to DXF and import it in SU.

I think that when you wore modeling you made that square on the right. You should just triangulate all of your mesh prior exporting, or before triangulation, you should delete all hidden edges on that surface.

Great tutorial Chipp!
Thank you.

If I had to than SubD (or Artisan) and Vertex tools is what I would use. Toughest would be to make the curve for that object.

Impressive, Rich´s gun and B194. WOW! Can wait to see B194 textured.

@rich o brien said:

@nlipovac said:

@tuna1957 said:

I have over 20 models that I start and never finished and on all occasions, i lost my temper and aborted them (with a lot of screaming and swearing).

Unfinished models are good practice! You try things you normally wouldn't attempt in these unfinished projects.

Eventually, all the unfinished practice yields benefits like the chair you shared. Really goo model

Thanks, Rich.
I know, I even started learning Blender to get some solid knowledge on Subdivision.
I do have some more furniture models I would like to model myself so we will see how that will go.

@tuna1957 said:

nlipovac, great job. hard to believe it's your first try at an upholstered chair.

Thank you Tuna1957, but this is not my first try, it is my first successful finished armchair model.
I have over 20 models that I start and never finished and on all occasions, i lost my temper and aborted them (with a lot of screaming and swearing).