Got this fruit stand off the TV

[xy mosian]

Thanks Dave, I have been trying to export the section, but of course I need pro to do that. I'll play with tracing after I've had a look at WinTopo.

xy

 

[SketchUp Guru]

I must have misunderstood. What were you trying to export from SketchUp?

 

[devonwoody]

Naturally I am interested (I requested originally).
15" circumferance for starters, (our kitchen table tops here are usually 24" wide)
flat base area shall we say 9",
Using 10mm thick timbers.

However I would be happy to work to your choice.

 

[xy mosian]

Dave, I thought, perhaps mistakenly, that a 'Section Slice' would be basically a profile, and exporting it would give me one face of the slats. As that facility is only available in Sketchup Pro I'll have to find a way around it anyway. So back to exporting images and tracing, which I'm sure will work but perhaps not quite as slick.

 

[xy mosian]

devonwoody, I'm a bit tied up today, but I should be able to give the thing more attention this evening. I'll work on about a 1" 'dish' and 2" - 2 1/2" slat depth maximum. We'll see what it looks like. The anticipation is killing me :lol:

xy

 

[devonwoody]

Thanks xy, no rush or quick desire my end, I'm into a ASP box at the moment. :wink:

 

[SketchUp Guru]

xy, I'm still confused about what you are doing. You can't directly create a section slice from an imported image. Even with the Pro version of SU. SketchUp convert the edges in an image into geometry.

If you have the shape of one of the slats in PNG form, you could import it into SketchUp, trace round it, create a face and Push/Pull to get the thickness.

DW, I'm sorry I didn't get your drawing done already. Too many irons in the fire I guess.

 

[devonwoody]

Dave, no problem, wake up in the morning and happy to start another project so this one might be next.

 

[xy mosian]

Dave, sorry for the confusion, it may be down to me changing targets part way through.

Initially my aim was to generate profiles for the slats, ceate sections and export as images. That would provide sufficient information for a slatted fruit bowl to be made, assuming the profiles to be the tricky bit.

Having thought longer, I developed the method I outlined earlier to create a full drawing. Hence the need to work from the profiles, then available in image format. However during my research on the use of sections I had come across slices and and idea formed that no tracing would be involved if I could export Section Slices. Not in the non-pro version as we have seen.

Of course later thinking tells me there is no need to export anything. I can trace the sections directly in Sketchup, and work from those. I hope.

This effort to reduce confusion may have made things worse, if so sorry again. Anyhow on with the pixel pushing.

xy

 

[xy mosian]

devonwoody, Is this the kind of thing you are looking for?

xy

 

[SketchUp Guru]

I think I'm starting to see but I'm not sure. If you draw the shapes for the various parts, you could lay them out flat and do a 2D export of them to create a template.

If you want, e-mail your SKP file and I'll show you.

Dave

 

[xy mosian]

Hi Dave, As you might have seen I managed the drawing.
The way i did it was not very slick, but it worked, I think. I drew the bowl 'solid' using a profile and 'follow me'. Then I used sections to get details of the dimensions at the various slat positions. Of course dimensions seem to be available only at the axes so the sectioned model had to be repositioed a couple of times.
From there I redrew the profile of each slat, pushed it to thickness and saved it. As someone mentioned there are only three basic shapes.
The trickiest bit I had was drawing the profiles in one plane for some reason, I must look into that. Still I was chuffed to buggery, as they say round here, when it all came together.

xy

 

[SketchUp Guru]

I missed your drawing. Sorry. If you want section cuts exported, I'll do that for you.

You should be able to get dimensions from anywhere.

 

[xy mosian]

Dave, thanks for the offer. For now I'll hang fire I think. If devonwoody wants more information then I'll probably get back to you. I had a look at WinTopo, it looks useful, sadly when I tried a download I got a 'page error' and so I need to email them.

xy

 

[devonwoody]

devonwoody, Is this the kind of thing you are looking for?

xy

Thanks xy, much obliged.
I can add dimensions to my requirements and perhaps I can then print to full size (using a poster program) and make templates if I want.

 

[xy mosian]

devonwoody, If you would like to PM me, I will happily send you the Sketchup files.

xy

 

[devonwoody]

Forum members I am sure are pleased to hear that xy mosian, geoff, followed through with his offer of help and sent me pdfs which print full size of sketch shown above.

Thanks xy.

 

[xy mosian]

devonwoody, John, it's a pleasure to be able to help, I hope it actually works, and I learnt a lot too. Everyone's a winner, as they say.
Looking forward to a WIP?

xy