So I downloaded SketchUp Make because I wanted to contribute one model to the Google Earth. It’s a place that as a child I would visit every once and again (usually via boat outings with my dad) and I have some good memories here.
It is a bridge, and it can be viewed in Google Earth here: 46°18’59.80"N, 83°59’31.92"W
So far it’s going well. I’m crashing and bumping things and occasionally mangling the polygons and whatnot but there is net progress. I have the bridge’s 9 pillars placed and the box girders, and am now working on putting the drainage spouts along the sides…
I’m working from the Google Earth view, a Youtube video of the bridge and about half a dozen Flickr pictures to try to render this. My fear is that once it’s done I won’t be able to place terrain around it (the abutements are both mostly buried by dirt, sand, etc and I want to replicate this. I’m also nervous on how to place this on the water once it’s done.
When it comes time to put in the concrete “edges” of the bridge; i.e. where the curb, handrailing and streetlight platforms go, is there a way to make it congruent with the edges of the girders throughout?
I used that the other night when trying to get the curved girders to fill in as a shape. I fought with those for 3 and a half hours before finally “getting lucky” with that tool.
Most like there’s a gap or the edges aren’t coplanar. You might find it easier to draw the profile on a larger rectangle and erase the outside. If you plan to run Follow Me to extend the bridge deck, you’ll need for the profile to be a single face anyway.
Thank you. I erased the wireframe model and came to the same conclusion.
Interestingly (and annoyingly) I was able to extend the deck some but found it was colliding with the girders. Turns out I drew multiple lines along the top edges of said girders and so it followed the wrong one! Gah.
