This has been a problem for me too... Sketchup has a hard time with spheres for some reason.<div><br></div><div>When I used indents to hold spheres, I ended up using inverted pyramids, that was easier to draw and still worked well (but not nearly as pretty).</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you could manage to do a geodesic sphere instead of one made of curves, then it would probably subtract fine, but I don't know how to do that with sketchup. (there may be a plugin to help with this).</div>
<div><br></div><div>- Paul<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Darcy Whyte <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com">darcy@siteware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div>Thanks Andrew,</div><div><br></div><div>I tried that. The problem with subtracting a portion of a sphere is that the little lines defining the sphere never lined up with the surface. I'll try again. Perhaps if I make little bowls instead of spheres it will be easier to make the bowl lips line up with the game surface.</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Andrew Plumb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@plumb.org" target="_blank">andrew@plumb.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Make another object in the shape of the indentation and subtract it from the surface:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1004126" target="_blank">http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1004126</a><br>
<br></div><div>Andrew</div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div></div><div><div><br>On 2011-04-16, at 11:51, Darcy Whyte <<a href="mailto:darcy@siteware.com" target="_blank">darcy@siteware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br>
<div><br></div><div>I'm making a game using Sketchup and I'm having a problem making little indents so marbles can sit in them (like a chinese checkers game).</div><div><br></div><div>Anybody have any better ideas than the method I'm using? Or can you tell me why my method isn't working?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Darcy</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">
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I’m making a marble tic-tac-toe game to practice Sketchup and cutting with my CNC mill.</p><p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">
I’m having an interesting problem. I’m trying to make little cups for the marbles to sit in. I make a circle on the surface, then a circle into the material. I then make the perpendicular circle into a fragment and rotate it around using the Follow-me tool.</p>
<p style="margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-left:0px;display:block">For some reason it only gives some of the cup shape. I’m missing the lower portion and some other fragments. Any ideas?</p>
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