Posts made by Sawduster

Like said above, set your paper orientation to Landscape. Change the "Camera" to Parallel Projection, then click on the appropriate stand view (probably "Front"). Now zoom in so that your pattern fills the screen as much as possible without extending off of the screen. Now when you got into Print Preview you should be able to enter "1" into each of the "Scale" boxes. Now when click "OK" your entire pattern should show up on a single page if it is of a size that will fit within the margins.

jerry, it is 65 kilometers from Ludwigsburg to Schwäbisch Gmünd (yes, that many umlauts)! that is a looong distance to travel ever day!

And in those days (1970-1971) most of the trip was on winding two lane roads that went through most of the little towns along the way.

Very cool and useful.

BTW, Every time I look at your avatar I can not help but smile. That is such a joyous picture.

My concern with putting the polyurethane only on the inside is that it would tend to cause differing rates of moisture movement from the wood on the inside and the outside. I'm envisioning this goblet as having fairly thick walls, 1/4" or more and that difference in expansion and contaction of the wood from absorbing and losing moisture as the seasons change may cause some issues of cracking of the wood.

For the best possible protection and least amount of maintenance, I would apply polyurethane to the entire thing.

Bt the way, Eeva, I see you live in Ludwigsburg. More years ago than I care to admit, I attended High School at the American Army Dependant High School there. We lived in Schwabisch Gmund (not sure of the spelling of those) and road a bus all the way to and from there every day.

Aha, should have figured it would not be as simple as cutting in half as I had assumed.

Bertrand,
Just visited your website again and have to say, what a great job. Love the way you are using the layering to show individual parts of the more recent pieces done in SketchUp.

Oh, and the woodworking is fantastic, too!!

So, what was the answer to the original question about cutting one in half?

If the bottom and top of the barrel are left in place, they can surely be cut in half (we've got a pair used as planters in the back yard now). In fact, if the wood has not shrunk and cause looseness in the barrel, should hold alright without the bottom/top in place as long as the rings are intact.

Cool! That's a workout I can handle. Bench pressed 20 reps and never broke a sweat.

Welcome, Charlie. Always good to have another sawdust maker on board.

While I had tried several other CAD type programs previously, the learning curve was way to long and many were remaniscient of the early DBase command driven data base programs. Yuck! So I generally reverted back to very simple scale sketches of furniture mostly to get proportions pleasing. I started using SkethUp several months ago and find that doing detail, down to the joinery, drawings make projects move along more quickly and with less aggravation over working around the little snafus that pop up. All that stuff gets remedied at the drawing board now before a saw cut has been made.

On the legal side, if I remember correctly, the free version is not licensed for commercial use, so if you're doing it for money, then . . .

Thanks all. Always face me is something I don't generally use except on the "Bob" layer (or whatever that guy's name in the Arch template is) and I don't mind him following me when I light up his private layer. I was wanting to play with the balusters from http://www.sketchucation.com/scf/viewtopic.php?f=105&t=3603 and couldn't get the one I isolated to play with from following. Real strange behaviour when you do a rotate copy with something like that.

Thanks, Boo. Knew there was an easy solution, but couldn't remember what it was.

Guess that is what it is called. An example is that fella that comes up on some of the templates and, regardless of where the camera goes, he is always facing it. How do you turn that on and off?

Well, I just went there and tried the inferencing video. Worked OK streaming, but when I tried downloading, unzipping and playing it locked up.

The ones I checked worked ok, both downloading and streaming. Which particular ones are not working for you?

I recently saw a nice tutorial using the radial array to make the copies for an animation of a door opening. Very cool.

Gaieus,
Man, you do not know how many times I have battled in SU trying to move something on an axis and having difficulty. Never would have thought to use the arrow keys to lock in the move direction. Thanks!!

I can just imagine the amount of scrap I would produce doing test pieces at first

One of the nicest things about doing woodworking with hand tools is the lack of having to make test pieces. While there is a learning curve with hand tools, a bit of practice and you'll get there. I use a combination of power and hand tools and "claim" that I use the most efficient tool for every job. In actuality I mostly find myself deferring to hand tools even in situations where a power tool might be quicker. I do have to justify the large sums of money I have "invested" in vintage hand tools somehow.

Roger,
Great tips, those on the construction. You mention grouting the tile pieces, what did you use to cut the saltillo? When I installed some of that on my front porch, it fairly ate my abrasive blade on the handheld circular saw I used.

also, construction adhesive for glueing the tiles to the backing? Upside down application of mortar could have been fun.

Cool. I didn't even know you could edit the dimensions from the dimension tool. Came in real helpful yesterday. Had to do a quick down and dirty sketch of the layout for some proposed chain link fencing at my Church to submit to a contractor for a bid. While my measurements were right on the money, my dimensions came in a half inch off due to where SU put the inference points on some of them. Select, type in the actual numbers and voila. Also handy for text descriptions of the gates I needed in the fence.