By the way, the image above, except for being cropped in Picasa, was done entirely within SketchUp. Since we haven’t had a challenge lately, can anyone describe the process?
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By the way, the image above, except for being cropped in Picasa, was done entirely within SketchUp. Since we haven’t had a challenge lately, can anyone describe the process?
-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.
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Greg Wurst
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My Sketchup arc skills are rudimentary. If it’s not a consistent arc I tend to get-out the tablet and draw the arc freehand.
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DaveR
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Hi Greg. I wasn’t referring to the arcs. I was referring to making the entire picture.
By the way, there are a couple of plugins for drawing non-circular curves.
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Greg Wurst
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I’ll have to check-out those arc plugins.
Not sure how you got multiple face styles in one view in Sketchup. Interested to hear the method.
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DaveR
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Since that part is supposed to be a little challenge, I’ll wait to see if anyone else chimes in.
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Greg Wurst
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How’s this?
I probably did it differently, but I first got the background style of the image the way I wanted it. Exported as graphics, go to Window, Styles, Edit, Watermark and add it as the background image for the original.
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DaveR
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Excellent work Greg. That’s how I did it. Takes longer to decide on the display style than to actually do the thing.
What did you use for the style for the background image?
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Greg Wurst
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In Sketchup 7 under styles there is a Style Builder Competition Winners category. I chose Pencil on Light Brown.
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a1Jim
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My aproach since I have no clue about sketchup, PM DaveR ask for help.
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DaveR
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posted 89 days ago
Greg, I thought it looked familiar. I probably have a hundred different styles and I can’t remember all of them.
Jim, that’ll work for you for awhile but one day I’m gonna get you hooked up and you’ll be flying. ;)
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