I must admit I continued to doodle on with the dominoes until I had a full track, complete with twin up and down spirals that took about 10 minutes to run. The sun was out and it was a beautiful day here on the river, so I came to my senses, deleted it and fired up the twin diesels instead.
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sell the diesels, hereâs your next projectâŚ
john
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An excellent Vid and Idea, thanks for that John. I would love to do that on this old tub.
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A little something I do without thinking that I thought some might find useful.
When you want âround edgesâ but donât want the increase in geometry created by actually rounding edges, you can use two edges to constrain the distortion caused by softening an edge, which gives you a nice âvisuallyâ rounded edge.
As you see in the gif, if I just soften the edge it makes the adjoining faces look strange. But a quick offset and a copy move and bobâs your uncle. On some surfaces it is better to shift erase (hide) the outer edges rather than ctrl erase (soften) or it will create the softening distortion.
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Iâm not seeing any animation, though. Just a still image.
Refresh your page.
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Cool! For the technical folks, I wrote a post a while ago that explains (hopefully not too confusingly) why this pseudo-smoothing technique works due to the screen rendering algorithm. The post in which my comment appears covers this technique more generally.
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Good conversation. Thanks for the ideas!
Iâll address your question even though you removed it.
Is this similar to using round corner with only 2 divisions. Yes and No. This way reduces the number of facets added around bends. Hereâs a simple one, the one on the left is low poly, the one on the right is round corner.
As you see fredoâs add an extra 100+ segments, that can quickly add up.
Fredoâs tools are fantastic, make life easy and do the job you want in a quick and efficient way. My manual version is a bit fiddly and can take time, but it can be used in certain situations to keep your file size down.
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A bit of bending.
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The right tool in the right handsâŚ
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Hi,
isolation is getting all of us rsrsrâ
Could you tell me if MS Physics is working with the latest versions of SketchUp - 2019 and 2020 -?
Anton is preparing a new version, but the current version doesnât work in the newer SketchUp versions.
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Thatâs great to know.
Thanks for your quick response, Cotty! 
I think I may of shared once before?, but your animation reminded me of this visual I did also using MS Physics for a pre-viz on the âFog of Warâ. I also made some 12" high dominos which were used on an oversized map to be able to physically shoot this low angled perspective of the dominos falling with a large camera/lens).
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Hi Box, how do you select the four lines and the corners in one click? Iâm trying that and no success⌠I nowhere can see a function to do thatâŚ
Maybe he welded the lines to begin with?
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seriously? is that a function?
There are at least two different plugins that will weld edges. Theyâve been around for many years. At least since 2004.
Okay, that is pretty amazing that you can do this kind of thing within SketchUp.
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