I am trying to resize the height of this chicken coop to meet my requirements. I am not looking to rescale the entire coop. Rather, I just need to bring the height down to 6’0" from the ground to the highest point to meet my city by-law requirements. Currently, this is standing just over 7’0" tall, and that is a problem for me that needs fixing.
I will stand by if I need to clarify anything. I am planning to purchase materials ASAP for this project, and any help I can get here will be so appreciated. I cannot include the files here due to there being a copyright.
I got the file from someone who designed the chicken coop. I just asked them right now if they know how to adjust the height from their end. I wanted to ask the community here as well if they knew anything about this. I hope something can be done…
The designer should be able to make the adjustment for you. I’d offer to do it except for two things. They went to the trouble of adding a copyright to it. Due to the inefficient way it was modeled, I wouldn’t do it for free.
I really appreciate your insight here. So, if it will be hard for you to do it, then I can only imagine how hard it would be for me to do it.
The copyright part is challenging. Since I cannot share it, we don’t really have anything to work with. The worst part is that I don’t want to simply scale the whole unit down. If I did scale it all down, then that would bring the length and width down as well, which is not my intention.
I havent seen the file, but… I’ve seen chicken coops.
I suppose you have vertical wooden pieces, and horizontal pieces and…
If you need it to be 1 foot shorter, can’t you just use the current dimensions and simply remove one foot to every vertical piece ? I’m not talking 3d modelling but purely math, if the vertical parts are 7’ on one side and 6’ on the other, then cut them at 6 and 5 ?
since all you need is measurement to buy your lumber
Yes, there are wooden vertical pieces. I like to be able to visualize everything and have everything laid out. I find it’s just easier to work this way.
Do you mean to mentally just subtract one piece from each piece and then measure how much wood I will need? Or do you mean within SketchUp to make each vertical piece one foot shorter? If you mean within SketchUp, would that be done using the Tape Measure tool?
Here, I went to the 3d warehouse and got myself a chicken coop.
Now, as of now, this vertical part is 2,171m
I would like for it to be 27cm shorter.
so I’ll plan to buy and cut it at 1,9m
The 3d is still too tall, but my cutlist isn’t.
if it helps, you can double click on the dimension and type whatever you need it to be. it won’t resize your model, but at least when you check on it during assembly, you’ll see your measurement.
I’m proposing this because all you need is to know how much wood you have to buy. And from what Dave said, the file isn’t modelled in a very “easy to modify” way.
