Some more learning

Here is my latest render. Some progress I think but one thing I am still struggling a little with is setting the scene in SketchUp so that it will produce the view I want in the render.

@majid

Wish I had the talent to do things like this.

Wow, what a great start!

Just curious, what tools/plugins (if any) did you use to draw this?

I was thinking about trying this myself. I was thinking about putting the image as a background and then drawing on top of it.

@Rich-O-Brien said in Twinmotion 2025 ecosystem:

I just want SketchUp to remove the yearly charge and let me purchase perpetual as I see fit.

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I, I figured it out………

@majid
As usual, Majid - nice work. I wish I had the talent to generate something like this.

@majid Looks great Majid.

@Box OK guys, I have figured out a way to view Box's videos while you are using SketchUp with the ability to pause them during the process:

*First I went through his "Out of the Box" thread on both SketchUcation and SketchUp and saved the videos to a folder on my hard drive.

• For gif files: I installed GIF Viewer. That allows me to open one of the gif files with the ability to pause the video while I am trying to "imitate" the process in SketchUp

• For the mp4 files: I installed the Windows Media Player. That allows me to pause a mp4 movie video while I am trying to "imitate" the process in SketchUp.

• For the YouTube videos I could not download/save them so there is not similar process to allow you to pause one of them while you are trying "practice" the process in SketchUp.

Hope this is usable for those who want to watch on of the great videos and "practice" the process in SketchUp.

I have a web page that is used to show SU model. It has 3 iframe oh the page. One of the iframe is a list of models. A second iframe will show the model a the third iframe swill show the model information. What I want to do is when the user clicks on the model name (in iframe 1) show the selected model in iframe 2 and a full description about the model in iframe 3.

I have looked at several web sites and have not found a solution yet.

@ntxdave
I spent a couple of years in Germany while I was in the US army (late 1966 to late 1968) and I think I drove through Munich but am not sure.

Well, thanks to a user on the SketchUp Forum, I have found a way to download Box's YouTube videos and add them to my folder. Since they are mp4 videos they can then be played via Media Player (which launches in a separate window and allows you to pause them).

There is an extension for Microsoft Edge called Internet Download Manager. Here is a link to a video that will tell you how to install it in Microsoft Edge: How to install Internet Download Manager

@Box OK guys, I have figured out a way to view Box's videos while you are using SketchUp with the ability to pause them during the process:

*First I went through his "Out of the Box" thread on both SketchUcation and SketchUp and saved the videos to a folder on my hard drive.

• For gif files: I installed GIF Viewer. That allows me to open one of the gif files with the ability to pause the video while I am trying to "imitate" the process in SketchUp

• For the mp4 files: I installed the Windows Media Player. That allows me to pause a mp4 movie video while I am trying to "imitate" the process in SketchUp.

• For the YouTube videos I could not download/save them so there is not similar process to allow you to pause one of them while you are trying "practice" the process in SketchUp.

Hope this is usable for those who want to watch on of the great videos and "practice" the process in SketchUp.

@Gus-R How do you come up with models like this? It is great and I would like to be able to do something like this.

Is there some documentation or a tutorial for this plugin?

@Dave-R Very nice sir!

You said all SketchUp. Did you use any plugins? I wish I had the knowledge/skill to do something like this. I am not an artist or engineer and see many post from people like you and am very impressed.

@tuna1957 Thank you. I thank you for the reference to the FredoScale tool and its ability to twist. It helped me begin to visualize some things like you have been doing. I just need to practice/experiment more.

@tuna1957 OK, I just messed around with the FredoScale tool and some additional messing around with things in 2025 and here is my latest trial.

So, I think to your suggestion of the FredoScale tool and messing around I have made some more progress.

I would like to learn more about how to do stuff like this. Here is my most recent trial/practice.

I did not use anything like FredoScale. Can you share with me how to use a tool like that to twist something? Also, did you do this with SU 2025? If so, how do you get a glass/glossy look to the interior part of you model?

@ntxdave OK, certainly not perfect by any stretch of the imagination but here is some progress.

Still need some more practice but I am moving in the right direction (I think).

@ntxdave said in Box Exercise Discussions:

Here are the types of models I eventually want to be able to create:

I really like these examples and am struggling a little trying to draw something like them. If I draw the pieces outlining the glass interior and rotate them so I can get them to overlap, how to I manage the size of the glass interior?