The 85 Ft. Washing Machine

[JimD]

There was a thread on this forum where someone took the Dave R scale up method to an extreme.

The guy scaled up his model by something like 1 million times… just for sake of it… And I’m pretty sure that placed him into the scenario where his model wouldn’t even fit onto planet Earth.

I’ll have to see if I can track that thread down, in an effort to share it here.

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Here it is… and how bad is my memory. He actually scaled it up by 100 million times, not 1 million.

Scaling problem

I scaled my model up 100 million times so that I could fix all of the tiny imperfections of my model. My model consisted of several groups when I scaled up. I noticed that in the 100 million times version sketchup doesn’t recognize any of my model that I had (the groups previously mentioned). Meaning if I try to click on my group it will not work and rather it will select whatever is behind it. It is as if my model has become invisible to sketchup even though I can see it just fine. The second i…

Anyhow, I can only admire this from afar… I would like to be able to claim it as my own, but it rightly belongs in the hands of someone a lot more courageous than myself.