Dani’s SketchBook

[sWilliams]

Hi Dani.
Many thanks for the new energy you’ve brought to this forum.

When a material is applied to a container but lying along the wrong axis you may open the container and change the axis. The material will then automatically follow the new axis direction.

I have all of my materials configured with the long dimension oriented top-to-bottom in the Materials browser window. Then as I work through a design and create components I’ll set the long dimension of the component to be the blue axis. Hope that makes some sense.

Here’s an example.

[Danimaupin]

I wanted one.

[colin]

I make fun of @theguz sometimes, because when he did his scale figure he got carried away with textures. The file comes in at 3MB:

I’m a bit less, under 200kB:

Curious about your shirt, and if it’s a small repeating pattern.

[Danimaupin]

Yep. It’s a 6” pattern.

I come in at 418KB paired with Sal

[Danimaupin]

I love that there are so many tutorials out there for SketchUp and so many people willing to help. Naturally when @JustinTSE put up his 30 days to better modeling tutorial I jumped on it. I’m a day behind finishing it, and the video has some nausea-inducing scene transitions, but it’s all in here.

TSE 30 days.skp (11.3 MB)

I did it all on iPad. Thank you so much Justin. I learned a veritable buttload of cool things.

Side-note: The construction animation gave me some trouble. Half the time I couldn’t see the section cuts anymore. I will have to practice them more. EDIT:: okay so apparently all of the section cuts are wrong in the video. Apologies.

TSE 30 days animation - Thank you Justin!

You know, of all the things …. This stupid scene is probably my favorite.

Or maybe this one

[tuna1957]

Great job on having the perseverance to work your way through that
Got to say though… the animation made me seasick

[tt_su]

Loving the style and details in these models!

[JustinTSE]

@Danimaupin

I love that there are so many tutorials out there for SketchUp and so many people willing to help. Naturally when @JustinTSE put up his 30 days to better modeling tutorial I jumped on it. I’m a day behind finishing it, and the video has some nausea-inducing scene transitions, but it’s all in here.

OMG This is awesome! I love the Smithy model from your earlier post - so cool!

[Danimaupin]

@JustinTSE

love the Smithy model from your earlier post

Thank you

[Danimaupin]

Messing around. Textures created in procreate, final image a SketchUp screenshot.

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[Eqc]

Super cool thread Dani. Your work is simple and creative, love the style, and it’s getting better!
It’s become a real click bait for me!
Thank you!

[Danimaupin]

Been home sick for a few days. Plenty of time to do nothing.

Modeled completely from scratch in iPad using split-screen to see the pdf from Lego.

[dezmo]

@Danimaupin

Plenty of time to do nothing.

I Can’t imagine what will happen if you do something!!

[Danimaupin]

Because I can…certainly not because I should.

Lego Mini Cooper Kit.skp (5.5 MB)

[3DxJFD]

Irresistible!

[eric-s]

Thanks @Dave for clarifying that point I was going for speed but if you have textures that need to be oriented in specific directions, as noted, apply them individually to faces.

[Danimaupin]

@3DxJFD

Irresistible!

Love this!

[colin]

I did something on those lines with a pop-out wooden pieces puzzle, that I had already built in the real world. Not on iPad though…

[Danimaupin]

@colin

a pop-out wooden pieces puzzle, that I had already built in the real world.

This is also awesome. I would do this puzzle.

[Anssi]

@colin

pop-out wooden pieces puzzle

Did you make a version that could be lasered out of plywood?