@pilou said:

Seems a dangerous chair for hands' children or old person!

I would add, "fragile" and "unstable," as well.

There is no lateral (side-to-side)  connection, except at the floor "hinge." Any lateral force, up top, will bend and/or break things, down below.

Attractive visually, but needs some serious real-world engineering to make it practical furniture.

All I can think to say,Box, is that your posted image is, indeed, an animation.

-Taff

@cotty said:

My approach for this nice chair...

• one component
• arc tool
• scale tool
• circle tool
• rotation tool
• mirror plugin

Commendations, cotty!  Your method is precisely the approach that I took. (Nice, concise presentation, by the way.)

For the confused, the "trick" was to look for additional online photos, to find the "slab" mounted on the wall (or lying on the floor.)  I imported a "slab" photo, as a texture, which I formatted to correct the perspective distortion. That one image provides the relative lengths of all the parts.

Getting the footprint "spread" (distance, front-to-back)  is, then, the only factor requiring some trial-and-error. Even then, there is a clue in the first photo. (Look for the two front stiles that are near vertical.)

Well, I have to say that, apparently, the challenge wasn't much of a skills test, for you insightful sketchUcation members. Regardless, I hope that, if you haven't yet given it a try, that you will -- adding something of value to your skill set.

(I agree with other participants, that an animated depiction would be nice to see.)

-Taff

'Rising' Chair - RobertVanEmbricqs.skp

Of course it looks realistic -- It's a photograph of the actual chair!

(pbacot, I had to laugh. Sorry.)

And yes, multiple angles, of unspecified degree.

-Taff

Hi all, I've been AWOL for awhile, busy with geodesic consults, but I've had a bit of free time, recently, to play with non-geodesic modeling. I stumbled upon this chair, designed by Robert van Embricqs

Now then, how would YOU approach modeling this in SketchUp?

I've got mine done (and will show my results at a later date.)  How about your technique(s) and results?

(You can find additional imagery of the "Rising" chair, with an online search.)

-Taff

@ermin0s said:

Are all the edges of that nexdome the same length? i want to build this in real, but then with those long toothpicks for meat.

All the "copper" springs are the same, and all the "silver" ones are the same.

Note, however, that the 3-way "splits" are NOT equal.  Since this is based on a 5-frequency geodesic tessellation of an icosahedron *(frequency 5v{1,4} to be specific,) * the three straight sections of the copper springs are different lengths.  The straight sections of the silver springs are of two lengths -- one in the center, with the two ends being the same.

**CORRECTION:  ** I forgot that my last refinement (the most problematic, time-consuming exercise)  was to make the three-angle subdivision for each spring EQUAL.  Therefore, the three lengths (chords)  between geodesic nodes, for each spring, are identical.  Note, however, that the two springs don't share the same chord lengths.  The silver chords are 0.2834, and the copper chords are 0.2523, when the radius of the sphere *(to the nodes) * is 1.0000.

The CENTER of each coil corresponds with a "node" of the geodesic tessellation.

-Taff

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@gilles said:

Pour revenir au sujet:
Coming back to the first post....
]
Thanks for posting! Great video, which I would never have otherwise seen.

Fencing continues to be assembled by hand, using jigs.

Hmmm, I built my SketchUp model by hand, using "jigs" (of a sort.)

-Taff

Windows users should note that Microsoft "Defender" is an ad-blocker, or, at least, has some ad-blocking functionality.

For more information, see the second link that I provided to Solo, in my post, above.

-Taff

@joe wood said:

So do I do Edit>Find while in that hosts file, or do I do that Ctrl F while in that file? Or is it Ctrl -F ?

EDIT- when in that hosts file I did Edit > Find, buysell and all it found was buyselldomain.net

Joe,

You may have an ad-blocker that is using some method, other than adding entries to the "hosts" file.

In that case, you need to modify your ad-blocker settings, to always allow access to "buysellads" address(es)

Otherwise, try disabling your ad-blocker, altogether, just to see if it's the culprit. If that works, then you know, for a fact, that you need to fine-tune the ad-blocker, so that "buysellads" address(es) are permitted. The instructions vary, depending on what ad-blocker you are using.

-Taff

@joe wood said:

So do I do Edit>Find while in that hosts file, or do I do that Ctrl F while in that file? Or is it Ctrl -F ?

Joe,

You used "Edit > Find" while in Notepad (editing "hosts") which is the same thing. In other words, "<Ctr>+F" is simply a keyboard shortcut.

(If fact, if you click on the menu "Edit" and pause to look at the list of commands, you'll see the keyboard shortcut right-beside the "Find" entry in the list.)

-Taff

@joe wood said:

Did Taff or Rich post the Notepad workaround, whichever one of you it was,

In Notepad, is that Ctrl F, or Ctrl-F to search for buysellads?

wow, in Notepad I see maybe 1,000 entries in that Hosts file! While in that Hosts file in Notepad I clicked Edit>Find and entered buyselladd but it found nothing.

hope this workaround works, from the time I clicked the email notification for this thread till I arrived here was over a minute, with Adblock turned off .

Joe,

Careful with your search. It's "buysellads" not "buyselladd"

You can search for just "buysell" and it will still find the entries.

-Taff