Follow the Bouncing Ball

[SketchUp Guru]

Bouncing Ball SKP

I made a little slide show to illustrate the use of pages and layers. Go to View>Tourguide>Play Slideshow. Actually, I'm not sure if Google SketchUp has that feature so someone might let me know?

 

[Neil]

Yep, works fine on Google Sketchup. Very clever, Dave =D>

Cheers,
Neil

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Thanks Neil.

Although that illustration isn't woodworking related, the same idea could be applied to opening doors or raising table leaves or any number of things along those lines.

I think I still have a model I did for a table that has leaves that slide in underneath the top when the top is lifted. There's a name for that sort of table but I can't think of it right now. In anycase, I animated the leaves being pulled out as a way of confirming that I had the geometry correct. The table itself wasn't anything more than basic parts but I could take that and create a table design that I'd build.

This could be used to check for conflicts between moving parts or to illustrate the order of assembly of a complex piece.

 

[Nick W]

Dave,

That's great. Think I might use that idea. =D>

 

[garywayne]

Good idea Dave.

I like that very much. It will come in very handy.