[Lab] sketchupsperts?

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

This has been a problem for me too... Sketchup has a hard time with spheres
for some reason.

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).

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).

- Paul

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:

> Thanks Andrew,
>
> 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.
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> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
>
>> Make another object in the shape of the indentation and subtract it from
>> the surface:
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>> http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1004126
>>
>> Andrew
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On 2011-04-16, at 11:51, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> Anybody have any better ideas than the method I'm using? Or can you tell
>> me why my method isn't working?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Darcy
>>
>> Sketchup Follow-me tool acting funny<http://mambohead.com/2011/04/sketchup-follow-me-tool-acting-funny/>
>> BY DARCY WHYTE, ON APRIL 16TH, 2011
>>
>> I’m making a marble tic-tac-toe game to practice Sketchup and cutting with
>> my CNC mill.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> For some reason it only gives some of the cup shape. I’m missing the lower
>> portion and some other fragments. Any ideas?
>>
>> Source: xo5 <http://mambohead.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/xo51.zip>
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