Modelling organic building

[monikakoisova]

Hey, has someone any idea how to model this house in sketchup?

[mihai.s]

Vertex Tools, QuadFace Tools and SUbD

Modeling an organic shape in SketchUp

[monikakoisova]

thanks a lot, I also need to model the interior walls and windows, to be able to create an interior in there later. The layout is:

[mihai.s]

Use Fredo JPP to add the necessary thickness.

[monikakoisova]

thank you, last question. It´s a 3d printed concrete house and I want to simulate the layers effect. I don´t want to use texture, i need to create layers by modelling, because of creatinig real physical scaled model later. Do you have any idea how to make it so, that it won´t be so large, that sketchup will be crashing.

[Le_Corb]

The best solution I can see is to make multiple section cuts in conjunction with one of Eneroth’s cool plugins: Slice a model into smaller pieces - for easier 3D printing

[mihai.s]

What does “layers effect” mean?

[monikakoisova]

something like this

[mihai.s]

Use the horizontal contours, selecting two and omitting one, then scaling them outwards, then applying SUbD once again to the group.

[mihai.s]

Video example of the previous idea

Adding layers effect to a shape in SketchUp

[eric-s]

Another approach is to use FollowMe from a profile that has the ‘layers’ added to the outside of the wall (maybe inside too?). Here I used PathCopy extension to array the arcs along the outside curved wall of just one part of the house.

A bit tedious to have to go back in and delete the connected edges. Perhaps if I did again I’d use just an arc, not half circle, and then use something like Eneroth’s FaceCreator extension to fill it all back in.

With the profile done, a simple FollowMe around a circle - but I’d draw the whole house shape so the FollowMe can extrude the whole thing in one go - I just did one ‘wing’ of the house to keep it simple here.

Assuming the house is a Solid Group - you could ‘cut’ openings using more Solid Groups and Solid Tools.

Section cut showing thickness.

Test render. Not exact to reference image but the process is there.

[mihai.s]

Thanks for the idea, Eric!

Preserving the organic shape and creating layers as in reality.

Adding layers effect to a shape in SketchUp v2

[eric-s]

So cool @mihai.s !

[TheOnlyAaron]

…and here I was about to suggest creating a simple material!

[eric-s]

Agreed. If you’re going to render it that is - use Displacement map so as to keep the in-model geometry down.