double curved wall In sketchup?

[mpooley]

One more question for today at least!!
I want to draw an entrance gateway which curves in from the road and at the same time curves up to the gateposts.
I cant fugure out how to do this.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Mike

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Mike, could you post something to illustrate what you're trying to do?

 

[garywayne]

Hi Mike.

Is this what you mean:

If so, what I did was make a square, than another inside of that, then pulled the inner square up to whatever height you want. Then I drew a line around the pillar at whatever height the curve is to be. Then I drew an arc from the corner of the outer square to the corner of the pillar where the line is, then I drew a line from the corner of the outer square to the corner of the inner square at the bottom. That should create a face. Next, I selected the path I wanted the curve to follow. I did this by clicking on the lines of the outer square whilst holding down the "Ctrl" button. Now select the "FOLLOW ME" tool and click on the curved face.

I hope I have explained this right and clearly.

Good luck.

Ah, dinner time. Gota go. It's all yours Dave. Ta.ta.

 

[mpooley]

Thanks for replies - I need to explian better

firstly its a wall - or two in fact - either side of a gateway
They would curve into the drive entrance from the road and at the same time curve upwards to meet the brick gateposts.

I hope thats clearer - i cant think of a better way to describe it.

Mike

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Something like this?

For this I drew the footprint of the wall. I sued the Bezier tool to create one curve and offset to copy it off to the thickness of the wall. I used Push/Pull to make it into a wall. I only pulled it up to its lowest height. Then I selected the horizontal ine at what would be the high end and used the Move tool to lift that end of the wall to the desired height.

Of course I made it a component without the post, copied it and mirrored the copy to make the opposite side.

Howzat?

 

[garywayne]

Bollocks, wrong again. I really thought I was going to be of some help to someone then. Oh well. Well done Dave. =D> :mrgreen: :lol: :lol:

 

[mpooley]

Thankyou!
That's exactly what I meant :lol:

I tried it the other way where i drew a bezier curve on the ground- drew a vertical rectangle at one end - used the follow me tool to create a solid wall curved to the bezier curve - and this worked fine except when i tried to pull up the end . I wonder why it worked your way but not mine?

Mike

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Mike, the reason it doesn't work the way you tried it is that the curves get broken up into their individual line segments. In the method I used they aren't broken up.

 

[mpooley]

Ah!
theres a lot to learn , :roll: but i love this program!

Thanks again to all who answered!