Drawing an irregular shaped mound

[baz]

Hi I’m new to the community, can anyone help me.
I’m trying to draw an irregular shaped smooth mound that curves to the left or right? I’m sure its simple but I can’t seem to find anything on YouTube? Can anyone help?

[DaveR]

Do you have an image of the sort of thing you want to do? Might be a job for the Sandbox Tools or maybe an extension like Vertex Tools.

Start with:

Modeling Terrain and Other Rounded Shapes | SketchUp Help

and

SketchUp

[baz]

Thanks for getting back so quickly. Yes really rough sketch attached. Profile above is and arch but I want it to follow a sort of moon shape?

[DaveR]

Is this supposed to be a landform or something else? Are the ends supposed to come to a point?

[baz]

yes exactly its a large shaped border.

[baz]

the ends come to a point and some are curved?

[DaveR]

So try Sandbox tools as I suggested. Or you might draw the outline and an arc or two and use Curviloft from Fredo6 to create the skins.

[baz]

amazing thank you. I’ve been trying loads of different ways of draping and even tried soap skin that just froze everything up.

[eric-s]

SketchUp for Landscape and Site Design Check out our course on Landscape & Site Design - specifically part 3: Terrain & Grading for some more ideas and step-by-step workflow. Cheers.

[mihai.s]

With TIG Extrude Tools

[Anssi]

The Soap Skin and Bubble plugin might work here too.

“Hand stitching” produces probably the cleanest results: