Hi! dear Gaieus, our cool "watching and listening man" (I guess at night you like listen the stars in the sky !!)

In facts I have made this Gif (450x337) to fit the forum. It is an experiment to deliver an animated explanation which needs just few seconds, for it is the case very often. I've first tried to display it in full format, afterwords I thought an animated thumbnail leading to the full format was better. I don't know. It depends of the case for sure

PS: i remember now why i made this way! This Gif is 732Ko . So if we put several in the same page we are surely going to difficult loading..

simon

Oups!
Désolé Roger,

I hadn't understood the real problem. I am meeting it the same: logged in, but deny to access the tutorials

Bonjour Roger,
I have had the answer from Gaieus:

@gaieus said:

.../ you will need to register an account for the site as well - unfortunately we haven't been able to connect it with the forum membership).

simon

Hey Thomas ,

Native Selection tool of SketchUp is at the same time so powerfull and so poor. Your "Toys" increase incredibly its possibilities. I have had not to use those, concerning selection with components or groups for now but,

The idea of your "Select Loop" is really amazing (and time saver)! I like it a lot

But more and moreover what seems especially important to me is your "Selection Modifier" : which makes possible to make a new selection into an existing selection. Since the beginning i'm using SU, i think it's something which definitively misses as a native option !!!!

Here with this work, I discover you as a masterclass rubymaker

,simon

Heyhey! Chris,

Clever idea, wonderfull tool. Many thanks, just continue this way, cause we need such tools simon

You should take a look here:

Mirror or Reflection.

On our new SketchUcation Tutorials (needing a new registration)
Simulating a Reflection in Google SketchUp by Eric Lay(boofredlay)

and a good explanation on Official Google SketchUp blog here:

A time for reflection by Tyson Kartchner

simon

Is it a Pottery Challenge or What?

Here is another fantastic way i was totaly ignorant to model our Bowl. Thanks Pilou to link this to us!

Pilou's link linking to:

which linking to:
KitoRaupp Pottery Twist on Youtube
and
KitoRaupp Spirale Tutorial on Youtube
and others KitoRaupp productions

On another hand the technic used is not so easy to reproduce. So I made this small video to clarify it. (I'm the author of nothing here). Simon

CenterPoint v.1.20 by Todd Burch

(Re: I give up posting direct videos on this thread, cause they seem to load more and more harder)

PAINTING THE BOWL

Plus: here is the basic skp if you want to play with it:
PaintedBowl_c_a.skp

Tools On Surface - v1.3 Fredo6
Mirror_ v3.1 TIG
Selection manager v1.1 Matt666
:-)simonlebon

Spring is Here

s*

@jean-franco said:

A question, I'm not able to dowload your Video from Viddler. Is this normal ? Not public to download ?

This video is plublic. Well I've just made it public again: normally everybody is allowed to download. > please send me a pm if it isn't still the case, i'll send you a copy.

(additional theory put on Shaping a cylinder - interesting technique page3 about
the "fifteen degree rotation")

simon

@unknownuser said:

I'm still far to understand the theorical's behavior of this

I was thinking of it in the very morning before wake! And i've find this is not something of "big theory" as I thought, but something pretty simple

The technic developped by KitoRaupp in his videos is not so easy to understand. For me, a plain hour to understand and reach the good result!
So I've made a video to explain it better (I'm the author of nothing here):

simon

If at the end of your KitoRaupp Pottery, you deselect ( Oups!) the spiral line you wanted (and needed) to remove, >> No Panic!!
Just take a look on this strange but very efficient new selection tool: "selected edges by defined angle", our frenchy Matt666 have developped in his last Selection Manager. It is specificaly a good tool to achieve the job ( to remove the spiral line) simon

Fredo,

Are you coming from Mars? !
Does your head measures 2 meters diameter?
Your tools are simply fantastic!
Your generosity doesn't belong to this world..

simon

Dear Miguel, the Ecuadorian man

I'm still far to understand the theorical's behavior of this, but i am right now able to manage the technic.. Many thanks simon

Goodmorning Sketchy Fellows,

I come back to the initial subject of this thread for I have to say one: "what a fantastic and fun way to potter a shape !!", and secondly to ask a question I can't answer by myself.

Why only a 15° disc rotation allows copy of ring angled edges to fit with the source, whatever the height is?


.

simon

Monday, March 2nd.
After months I come back on this thread.

First, it's because the illuminating and simple Voder Vocoder's solution isn't available anymore on DataFileHost.
So here is a permanent link for his (SU6)skp:
squat_bowl_vodervocoder.skp
.
In addition i have made this screencast in order to easy show it.
[flash=545,430:21w5tec9]http://www.viddler.com/simple/50d17f9e/[/flash:21w5tec9]
http://www.viddler.com/explore/slb02/videos/15/

re: Viddler videos are often hard to open. Given to the exceptional quality of it picture please don't give up: simply reload.. ;-)simon

Dear zzzSPUDzzz

@zzzspudzzz said:

I'm not saying the use of a ruby is always the best way to go, but isn't the idea of a tutorial forum all about teaching people different ways to do things, then at least they have a choice..........

@gaieus said:

It's not always about being able to do it easier with rubies. You should actually learn to do these things by hand, with native SU tools so that you model safely and with self confidence. Then can the rubies come to speed up your workflow...

I agree with Gaieus in the idea learning SketchUp the most completely using it's native tools is a necessary step, beside take advantage of using our mugnificient ruby scripts. I can add it is often a spiritual pleasure to find out the way of an elegant solution for complex duty with simple native tools.

Then you are right about ruby. But you know well we can find in this place many threads which take intensive advantage of them. But you are also right in the way for specific tuts on each complex ruby are missing. (It is something I'm thinking about for a while...)

:-)simonlebon

Hey Coen,

I was reflecting myself on a way to make this simple figure (rounded rectangle) easy to do in SU, and i am fallen up on your tut

Using the Rotate Tool along the proper axis to reverse the first two corners, was what i was still missing.

Here is, using your way, a little more quick solution:
[flash=437,370:2w0zqstu]http://www.viddler.com/simple/308b761e/[/flash:2w0zqstu]

PS to Gaieus: no use here of any ruby

simon

As I was trying to explain this so usefull tip to a friend, I decided to produce out a small screencast of it. Here is the result:(Remind: press spacebar before release EraserTool and that's it!)

[flash=475,436:x99jiuz8]http://www.viddler.com/simple/204a6c16/[/flash:x99jiuz8]

simon

Dear Fletch,

I plan to make some others plugin-vids when i have a little time. I'll now post them using our integrated upload attachments

simon