Modeling the incredible Colosseum, live in SketchUp! Join us!!
2020-09-04T18:00:00Z
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You don’t shy away from the big ones! Hope you don’t ruin it! 
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We should find Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris scale figures to put into it.
Here you go, B & C hanging out with C & L.
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Looking at the Colosseum it can obviously be constructed of many similar pieces arranged around in an ellipse. Here are some 2D views of such a section.
The difficult part would be scaling each “slice” so that it fits around in an ellipse (but you would only have to do 1/4). One thing missing from these is that on the very top level there is a wooden structure which adds even more steeply banked seats, for the plebeians I would guess.
Go do a walk through: Google Maps
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Using s4u to components plugin
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Nice plugin, if Aaron had used that he would have been finished in an hour!
In answer to Aaron’s on-air question (I got distracted with work things, and wasn’t there to answer live), here is a 10 minute scene from a 90 minute move (Way of the Dragon):
Many have argued that it’s the best Kung Fu scene ever. Certainly very honorable, I teared up at the end.
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I like the unnecessary zoom on the kitty!
Another extension that should be very quick would be Fredoscale box tapering (on the completed 1/4 colosseum).
I imagine that it was to make you understand Bruce’s cat like movements during warm up. But also, it was creative editing.
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I once made a Kata for SketchUp. It is to draw the house of the original patent of SketchUp.
Sorry guys… Friday could have gone smoother! I was actually suffering from an ocular migraine through most of the stream. I tried to use some of the suggestions you guys had, but I am glad to see the solutions posted in here! You all rock!
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Friday was a good stream. You may remember just the problems, but how you tried to solve them was both entertaining and informative.
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Hey guys. Sorry I missed this live. Even though it was imperfect, it was still inspiring. Here are my two thoughts regarding the challenges experienced while modelling.
- Was the original JPG plan image perhaps incorrectly deformed? It could have set you off on the wrong footing from the outset.
- Would it possible to do it this way?
a) Create a mould of the tranverse archways (a solid component / group). Set it to one side temporarily.
b) Use the Follow me tool to drag the section-cut around the require arc.
c) Put the solid component into the 17 positions required and use the “Interesect with model” tool
d) Then you just have a clean-up job of deleting everything that isn’t required. (Although you were using some solid tools that appears to auto-clean up after the intersection is complete. Not sure how that works.)
First time I watched one of these live session - isn’t the point to try show SU’s native tools and only fall-back on plugins when there’s a bind?
I get those! I know you were forced to continue for the live stream (I now know why you stopped early) but if I try to force through mine it only gets worse and takes ages to clear up. If I close my eyes for 10-15 mins it is gone. 