Posts made by unigami

After you draw the line, and before you do anything else, you can just type the length that you want the line to be, and SU will resize it. Note the length dimension that shows up in the box on the bottom right. Or, you can re-scale the line, or the entire model, by measuring a dimension with the tape measure and then typing the length that you want it to be.

@sketchnl said:

Is it possible to make this one a "Render this "topic

cause it's an amazing model

Wow, thanks again everyone for the nice comments! I'd be happy to share this model with whoever wants it...it's a bit too big for the 3D Warehouse at 12.2 MB, but if you PM me, I can either send you a link to my public Dropbox folder where you can pick it up, or I can email it to you. It is a SketchUp 8 file by the way...

@solo said:

Thanks for letting me play with this brilliant model, rendered with Thea.

Pete...my pleasure! It looks fantastic!

Here's an artist that did a show last year in Chicago using over 70 models selected from the 3D Warehouse as her inspiration for hand-made mixed-media renditions. An interesting idea...

http://www.stephaniesyjuco.com/cat_new.html

@honoluludesktop said:

Hmm...Reminds me of one of my favorite films where a Nagra has a minor part in the film. What a beautiful, and lyrical soundtrack.

Thanks for the clips, beautiful - I really enjoyed watching them!

A Nagra also appears in the Beatles movie Help! and in the John Travolta movie Blow Out

Thanks everyone, for the nice and helpful comments!

This little recorder made a big impact on the motion picture industry in the sixties. I think it is a great example of perfectly executed design. Someone had one for sale on Ebay and had pictures from every angle, so I thought it would be fun to model it.

This is my first serious attempt at doing a rendering. I used Kerkythea. It looks pretty good to me, but feel free to make comments if you see anything that I can change to improve it!

Here's an interesting article about the Nagra III and its inventor:http://www.filmsoundsweden.se/backspegel/kudelski.html

@tig said:

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Thanks TIG!

THANKS! I figured out how to do it manually like this, but I would much rather use the plug-in! Many thanks Jeff!!!!

Chris - I want the missing corner shown in the right hand picture to be filled with a surface that is blending between top surface and the sides. I haven't figured out a way to do it manually yet!

I'm making a box with rounded corners on the vertical edges using a 3" radius, but I want to put a rounded corner around the top surface at a 6" radius. When I try to do this using Fredo6's rounded corners tool, I get the result shown in the picture on the left. I'm trying to figure out how to fill the void shown in the picture on the right. I have a feeling that there is a simple solution but I'm stumped...can anyone help? Thanks!

Some of these really look like there were done in SketchUp. What do you think?

http://www.iamunknown.com/illustration.html

Update: I changed my mind...decided that I wanted more processing power, so I decided to get the Dell Studio 14z. I found one in the Dell Outlet Store that was refurbished and had the exact features that I wanted: 900p screen, 8 cell battery, backlit keyboard; plus I had a 15% discount that was offered by Dell Outlet on their Twitter posting, so I ended up getting this PC for $500 plus shipping. That's less than I would have payed for the ASUS 1201N considering the fact that I would have spend another $90 to upgrade it's memory.

I'm so glad that I made this decision, the Dell 14z runs great, has lots of power, and with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G graphics runs SketchUp really smoothly. I've also played Portal on it without any problems and will be trying some other games.

If you are looking for a small laptop to run SketchUp I would recommend the Dell 14z, and I would especially recommend getting the 900p screen upgrade, the image quality is really stunning, I'm very impressed.

This was the first refurbished PC that I have ever bought, so I was a bit apprehensive. There are a few minor cosmetic blemishes on the laptop case, but the rest of it, screen, keyboard, and everything, looks and runs like new. It shipped out the day after I placed my order.

According to Nvidia's web site, their ION-based products support OpenGL 3.0/3.1/3.2

I'm definitely going to get this netbook, probably in a couple weeks, and I'll post a report about it's performance (unless someone beats me to it!)

I was wondering if anyone has tried running SketchUp on the Asus 1201N Netbook.
I'm thinking about getting one and would like to use it for some light SU work. It would be great to hear from someone that has tried it out.

The specs on this Netbook are pretty good, it will run HD video and some games.
It has an Intel Atom N330 dual-core processor, 2 GB RAM (can upgrade to 4), and the NVIDIA Ion graphics accelerator, which supports Direct X 10.

I've done some searching and haven't found any comments from anyone that has tried it, I'm hoping someone on this forum has. Thanks!

Hi everyone! I’ve been using SketchUp for about a month and a half, and following this excellent forum, so I thought that I would stand up and wave the newbie flag.

I’ve always wanted to learn how to make 3D computer models. I tried the original SketchUp many years ago when it was first introduced but I wasn’t too impressed with it and gave up the first day. I forgot all about it until I read a blog post about Google’s Building Maker. I tried that out, and then did some research and saw how much SketchUp had improved over the years and how many wonderful resources there are for it.

It is such a great program and I’ve been having a lot of fun learning how to use it. I have absolutely no experience with any CAD software, so I’m pretty amazed about how fast I was able to start making some really nice models. Within a few days I had an amazing model of my house, complete with furniture from the 3D warehouse and was eager to try something more complex.

I thought that I would post some pictures of my first car model. Actually, it is a model of a toy Hot Wheels car from my childhood. This is the “Silhouette” and it is one of the original 16 cars that were released in 1968. (that will give you some idea of my age). It was modeled after Bill Cushenbery’s custom car. It took me about a week to finish this in off hours and I learned a lot from it. It also gave me some appreciation for how detailed these little toys were!

Hope you enjoy it!

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