@krisidious said:

Build this in SketchUp...

. . .without plugins.

Got my Chromercise Bands in the mail today. Took 'em nearly 4 weeks.

These are the epitome of nerdy. Oh well, yet another useless object that I will never use. Here's some pictures I took.

I documented a finger band unboxing. I need to get a life. sigh See below if so inclined.

@iceraptor said:

I'm trying to graduate up to more advanced designs however, and the thing that constantly frustrates me is how to make solid tank-like tracks along a curved path. Because of the constraints of the RP process, minimum wall-lengths are really important, and getting the mesh to be a solid manifold has become my bane.

I'm unclear as to exactly what you want. The sizing issue pointed out is the reason for your broken geometry. Did you want a better way to make tank tracks? Maybe this would help.

Oh, and welcome by the way! Hope you find this place as helpful as I have.

@tadema said:

John, thanks. I've no website but feel free to download the pictures from here.
John

No website? Hmm. Well, maybe you should set up a thread just for posting all your renders together along with links to their respective threads. You could call it, "John's Inspirational Work" or, "John's Masterpiece Gallery" or something along those lines.

I just think it would be nice to have all of these together in one place. I went through all your posts just to try and find some of your past works. I'm sure lot of other people would appreciate a gallery too. Just my opinion though.

Another jem! I'd love to see these all together. Maybe in one thread or on a gallery on your website or something.

I also want to set them to rotate around as my desktop background if that's alright with you.

@unknownuser said:

Happy Easter to you as well.

HE is risen!

Indeed He is!

@unknownuser said:

NEW RELEASEbug fix - better respect of offset distance in case where the surface is composed of faces with sharp angles.

This will be great! Thanks! Have a cookie. And...er...a beer. Great combination.

@unknownuser said:

that baby LOOKS like Wallace Shawn.

I think that's the point.

@unknownuser said:

Why do you keep using dat word? I don't theenk that word means whachu theenk it means. . .

Ha ha! Me and my brother had the Miracle Max scene memorized. "True love is the most amazing thing . . . except for a nice MLT sandwich. Mutton, lettuce, and tomato. When the mutton is nice and lean, and the tomatoes are ripe. smacks lips They're so perky." Best part of the whole movie.

@unknownuser said:

I can hear Wallace Shawn's voice with this one

That's a great movie. One of my favorites.

That's epic!

AWESOME!!! This looks like yet another very helpful tool Fredo.

@focpt said:

Nice Work Dude! How do you get the watercolor effect?? Is that a Sketchup style?

I would assume FotoSketcher or something similar. Am I right?

@Rich
This was in the Google Web Store a while ago. It was taken down a few days later probably because they didn't have a license to put it up there. I tried it out and it was pretty cool though. Would be awesome if Google put it up there for public use.

How about we have a thread that only mods can add to and post on but everyone could view. We could put up the most impressive models found around here along with a link to each corresponding thread. We could have a separate discussion thread open to everyone so they can nominate people's works etc. It would just be nice to have a real "Gallery" of the greatest SketchUp works.

It's kind of elaborate I guess but I don't think it would be too hard to implement, right?

@tfdesign said:

Someone should interject, hijack the thread and drop this BOMB right in the middle.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=33509

That'll put the cat amongst the pigeons!!

I posted that. Look here. Mine is the second answer.

@linea said:

@unknownuser said:

On Yahoo Answers the other day, I saw a guy who asked for help and tutorials for SketchUp and some idiot came in and told him to use Blender instead. He justified his opinion with two links. He said, "this is what SketchUp can do and this is what Blender can do." People like this tick me off.

This is hilarious, really made me laugh. I've always thought Yahoo answers was crap.

I opened his link expecting to see a really great render of an awesome model a single person made in Blender. Sintel, (and all the other Blender made movies) is awesome though.

Yahoo Answers is very useful for finding answers to questions. In fact, when I do a Google search for a question I have, I'll often pull up a few Yahoo Answers on the subject. The problem with it is the rating system. I can't post a question without being docked points that I need to get to level 2 to be able to post links in my answers. Therein lies the problem. That and idiots posting one word responses that are not helpful or even relevant. But I guess you'll have people like that anywhere.

That's the best thing to do I guess.

This makes me wonder, what is it that makes people think SketchUp is incapable? Is it the name that sounds simple and plain? Is it the fact that it is free/relatively inexpensive? Is it the incredibly easy learning curve often associated with weak software? Is it the fact that it's owned by Google? Very infrequently do I think these people have seen what SketchUp can do and/or used it themselves before coming to this conclusion.

Stupid people who think SketchUp is for making primitive basic shapes! On Yahoo Answers the other day, I saw a guy who asked for help and tutorials for SketchUp and some idiot came in and told him to use Blender instead. He justified his opinion with two links. He said, "this is what SketchUp can do and this is what Blender can do." People like this tick me off.

Is SketchUp better than Blender? Not necessarily.
Is Blender more capable than SketchUp in some areas? Of course!
Is SketchUp only useful if you want to build a building block bridge? NO!!!

So I explained that he was comparing years of work by 100+ experts costing over half a million U.S. dollars to one crappy SketchUp user's hours work for Google Earth.

Then I told the asker about SketchUcation and other good resources.

9 business days and nothing. I'll give it two weeks I guess. Still keeping my fingers crossed.

Or, for the bump map, you could try CrazyBump.