[Lab] sketchupsperts?

[Paul & Andrea Mumby]

Yeah sorry the boolean stuff is pro only. But intersection as Andrew linked
would work just as well for your purposes :) I use intersection all the time
when cutting holes through odd surfaces, I just push a tube through the
whole thing and intersect the faces, then delete the excess.

Be aware though sometimes using the intersect function does other wierd
things (I've had it generate additional artifacts in my models such as
excess lines in the middle of a face, or randomly make a line dissapear, but
leave the face intact, which later will ruin it for export if you don't
catch it... I can normally find these visually by just looking for extra
unwanted lines, or discoloration (if you have it in shaded mode you can see
the lighting/shading on the surface go all wonky if it created artifacts, or
if there are missing bits of geometry you might see some faces jump to the
darker color (for internal faces) which you don't want.

- Paul

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:

> That one is.  General intersection isn't:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax9HY06PB8M
>
> ...which is linked from
> http://sketchup.google.com/intl/en/training/videos/familiar_with_gsu.html
>
> Andrew.
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax9HY06PB8M>
> On 2011-04-18, at 11:43 AM, Darcy Whyte wrote:
>
>
> Andrew, I just noticed that feature is a "pro only" feature. So it would
> cost me 800 bucks to make my tic-tac-toe game. :)
>
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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:
>>
>> 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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