Dynamic Components - Flat Pack Version

[ericschimel]

Hey Joe!

I do a lot of CNC work using SketchUp and getting that information out to CNC. Here’s a fun one a did a few years ago:

SketchUp Arcade Machine

Hey all, I thought I’d share this here: Last year I made an arcade machine for the SketchUp team: [SketchUp Arcade 27] Every part of this was designed in SketchUp. Each part was fabricated off of a SketchUp model. I even used MS Physics to create a SketchUp driving game that you could play right on it. Oh yeah, it shoots smoke too! Check out the video of it in action here: I figured all of the SketchUp geeks here would appreciate it. We’ll bring it out for the next trade show…

I also do a lot of work with Dynamic components.

The two don’t always mix. Dynamic components work by scaling parts of the SketchUp model up and down. You can end up with rounding errors, arcs that aren’t arcs and circles that aren’t circles. These are all critical things when doing CNC.

That’s not to say that they flat out won’t work, but they are major caveats.

Not to sound like a shill but I did develop some software to solve this problem: www.getfabber.com.

For the reasons I outlined above Fabber doesn’t work with Dynamic Components, only static components.

There are other options though, but before I get into those what are you looking to do? Just cabinetry or other parametrically driven things that are CNC cut?