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Dave R · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:49 pm Post subject:

Nick, sorry to disappoint but I've actually been working on a model for work instead.

I do have some ideas about how to draw the rockers and the seat of that rocking chair but I won't bother to try drawing his chair unless the challenger supplies the dimensions.

In the meantime, take a look at this and then tell me that SketchUp doesn't do curves. Very Happy

Steve Maskery · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 1:51 pm Post subject:

Dave that's fantastic! Can we please have a tutorial on it? No rush. Anytime in the next hour or so will do fine...
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Dave R · Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 2:07 pm Post subject:

Steve, I don't have the files at work to give you a tutorial on that one. I actually cheated a bit and imported a 3D DXF file of the boat that was drawn in a hull design program. That said, I could have drawn the hull from scratch in SketchUp. Doing it as I did just saved a bit of time.

In this drawing of the pram I built as a cradle for my son (whose second birthday is today), I've made the hidden geometry visible so you can see the triangulation that is used to fill the faces. To draw a hull or something similar you just need to draw profiles at intervals down the length and then connect them. In the case of a boat those profiles are at "stations" and are basically cross sections of the hull at say every 12". the more stations and the more points along the profile you have, the smoother the curves appear. In the case of the sailing canoe there are many more points than on the pram. The pram is a hard chined boat though and the planks could be made of plywood. The canoe would be strip built and faired after strip planking is complete.

As far as the rest of the details on the canoe, it was rendered in Kerkythea witha single light source and no background. Actually pretty simple rendering.