Morning SketchUp execise.
Still need to model the grub screw for the oiler tube in the loose wheel and add threads for the on the bolt on the fast wheel.
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What sort of contraption are you building?
That’s to go with the lathe I modeled a while back.
Sweet! Love that smoothed cast iron look of the rounded flared connections between things . How about a little demo on blending the spokes with the rim?
Zooming in on the image shows that it is rounded. FredoCorner?
Cool.
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Thank you.
Here’s the mesh where one spoke meets the rim.
Nope. In fact I didn’t use any of Fredo’s extensions at all in this one.
The spokes started out as a sort of round column made with Follow Me. It was scaled to flatten it and then I used Scale on the curves at the top to stretch them up to the rim. Of course I only needed to do a quarter of the column and then copy and flip to make the other three quarters.
The rim and hub are separate from the spokes. I could have combined them all but I didn’t want to lose the component-ness of the spokes as entities.
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