Time Challenge?

Should we show joinery?

-- "A goal without a plan is a wish."

Nope. No joinery required.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Starting right….now!

Are ya done yet?

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Here’s the pic:

One demerit for adding a bad material. :-D

How long did it take?

Legs are tapered on the wrong sides too.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

DISLEXIC LEGS! :D

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

12 Minutes:

File can be downloaded here:

http://cid-258899c12334cc4d.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Sketchup%20Table%20Time%20Challenge?lc=1033

If I wasn’t interrupted at work I could have had it in less than 10.

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

Sorry about the material…just wanted to prove that I didn’t just dr. up your original photo and repost ;) Took about 26 minutes…about 4 of that was forgetting the fact that it can be exported as a jpg and getting the correct URL link from flickr to post…still trying to figure the ins and outs of posting pics. Ended up doing components on all the pieces.

Thanks for the challenge…I’m sure 26 minutes won’t break any speed record for sure!

Greg, good. So the time to beat is 12 minutes.

Next.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

risce1, how about trying it again without materials and with the legs tapered correctly. See how you do then.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

I guess I could have just left off the material and just let the dislexic legs prove it’s an original…how embarassing!!

Will do…will start from scratch and take a different approach instead of building components…

Here’s the pic:

Took about 18 minutes.

I’m not looking to win any awards or anything here, but for giggles I drew it again and got it down to 7 minutes. For the “official” record and all the glory that goes with it I’ll go with my original 12 minutes. :)

Besides, I used to work with some real CAD experts when I worked at GM with EDS and I can guarantee they’d get something like this done in 2 minutes or less. I consider myself a capable amateur at best.

I love this idea, and hope to see more such “challenges” in the future.

-- You're a unique and special person, just like everyone else.

OK all you Sketchup pikers, heres the new benchmark…
7:10:12…BOOYA!

And here is my textured version..I call it ..ALA Dave….

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

Good job risce1.

Greg, 7 minutes is good.

Brad, that’s funny. I thought you’d do better on the time. ;)

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

I should have printed your starting drawing..some of the time was spent toggling between my SU model and the web page to look at your diagram….and I don’t have allot of fancy plug ins to mirror or taper so that time is drawing everything native and rotating/flipping pieces. Besides, I am all about quality not speed ;O)

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

I should have added that no plugins are required for this. All native tools. You don’t need any plugins to do mirroring or tapering anyway. Those capabilities are in SketchUp right out of the box.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

First one out of the box at 8:30 am without coffee was 6 minutes and change. I studied the task, made a plan of action, brushed up on keystrokes and did another at 2:17 cleaned up. I doubt any cad program would do it faster on first try using some one elses dims. Radial copy of a 1” square was the key.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

Good work mics. what was the 1” square for?

Did your table end up above the ground plane?

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

I knew someone could get this down to around 2 minutes. A regular Sketchup pro with a graphics tablet could probably get under 2 after a trial run-through.

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I started ou woth a 22” square, deleted the face, drew another 1” square in the corner, made it a componant. drew a diag line on the big square to aid in radial copy. selected the 1” componant , radial copied the other 3, 1” squares. Edit componant, Pushpulled the 1” square to 20”. selected on inside edge at the top of the leg moved 1”, selected the other inside edge, moved it 1”, push pulled the 2” top face 3” up, drew a 3”x1” rectangle on the inside face of the upper leg, pushpulled 18”, drew a line at the uper corner of the leg at the apron, push pulled 1/4” in. deselected the componant. placed 1” giudes from the upper edge of the legs at opposite corners, drew a square from corner to corner and pushpulled 1”

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

it probably would have been the same drawing a 2” square. What I meant was that radial copy of the square componant first drawn to make the legs was the key.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

Sure… I bet now that I have already drawn it once I could draw it again faster. I think that with a challenge like this it’s first try time that counts.

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

I would hope you wouldn’t get slower.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

Depends on what I have been doing in between the attempts ;o)

-- David, South Windsor, CT "I love the smell of sawdust in the morning"

HAH! OK in case my point wasn’t clear. Speed can be increased greatly with preplanning and knowing what you want to draw prior to drawing it. If I have to toggle back and forth to a web site for dims obviously the time will be greater. Being familiar with sketchup screen navigation to the point of second nature also helps. It only comes with practice. Replication of some one elses plan and designing as you go are apples and oranges.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

cool challenge, Dave.. watchlisted ;)

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mics, have you tried to orbit around a photograph yet?

Martin, thank you.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

Dave…I have done some photo importing and photo matching if that’s what you are refering to. Import the photo and build a model based on the photo and placing a “skin” of the photo on the model. It’s pretty kewl! It was easier than I thought it would be. I had some success with it but the photos were not taken with the function in mind.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

Yes that is cool but not what I was referring to. Everyone who uses SketchUp will at some point try to orbit with the center mouse button on a picture they are looking at on their computer. It might be an image on a webpage—maybe here—or in an e-mail or your favorite image editor. The image will have nothing to do with SketchUp but that won’t matter.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

OH! haha yes i do it often!

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

OK Dave hear it is in 12min. I know it doesn’t beat 2 but I’ve got something to shoot for. I thought I got the legs right but after looking at this view I’m not sure

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12 minutes is pretty quick. 12 minutes indicates a fair knowledge of the basic tool functions and screenviews navigation.

-- Dan, Sterling Alaska, http://sullcon.homestead.com/ Before you criticise some one, walk a mile in their shoes...then you will be a mile away and you have their shoes!

I agree mics. Good job tinnmann65. It doesn’t sound like your joints need oiling ;)

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

so who’s the winner here?? I guess everybody ;)

-- Martin, http://lumberjocks.com | My Facebook: http://profile.to/msojka

I hope everybody wins, Martin. I set the deadline for a week or so away but maybe that’s too long.

-- Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can walk.

DaveR, Being a mostly metricated person, I’ll be doing mine in commonly accepted metricated equivalents later tonight if that is OK. I know how to type 19 in the VCB without looking instead of hunting the keyboard for 3/4.

mics 54, planning is my profession, so I absolutely understand and agree the planning before doing is key.

DaveR, I often try to Orbit and Pan in PhotoShop, Excel, Outlook etc. I get all sorts of unexpected results. It’s quite unsettling sometimes, but real funny afterwards.

-- I may be schizophrenic, but at least I have each other.

I somehow missed this post till now. I couldn’t pass on the chance to agree with you about trying to orbit in other apps. I often do long sessions of SU and freak out when, afterwards, things don’t rotate “properly”. It takes a while to get your mind out of the SU mode. :o)

BTW, 02:56.

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The worst is going to the Google 3D warehouse. I inevitably try to rotate the models before I download them.

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