[Lab] sketchupsperts?

[Darcy Whyte]

Strange...

I did it once. Before drawing all the game parts, I did it with a simple
cube and I made a little dish into it. I assumed that it would work after I
drew the rest of the game. So it's possible there's something about the way
I drew the game that is causing trouble.

I would classify that as a serious bug. I'm a new Sketchup user so I'm
curious to see where the project goes over the next year or so.









On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys at gmail.com>wrote:

> In follow up, one option might be to do a sphere, then export in a format
> that tessellates like an STL. Then re-import the file, it should be made of
> proper polygons then... Then try a boolean subtraction.
>
>  - Paul
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Paul & Andrea Mumby <themumbys at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=1004126
>>>>
>>>> Andrew
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>> On 2011-04-16, at 11:51, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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