• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Imagine that table with a thick table cloth coming to the floor and a source of heat on the floor, originally charcoal, now electrical. You would sit at the table with your coat on and your legs under the table cloth to warm them.

In the winter I have walked past old stone houses with the front door open as it's warmer outside than inside.
The family is all sitting around the table to get warm

Jonathan

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A universal joint from dimensioned drawings in a textbook published in 1905.


3D printed from the SketchUp model.


The srews that hold it together modeled from the specifications given in the dimensioned drawing.


Another thing I modeled in SketchUp for 3D printing. A hook for a wheelchair lift. I traced the part of the lift the hook parts have to fit, imported the scanned drawing into SU and used it as a reference for model the part.


And the hooks installed. Perfect fit first try. The Philips head screws were replaced with screws to match the lift and the white foam was replaced by more suitable black foam.
 
Thank you gentlemen.

Dave, the .stl file is not posted anywhere. I didn't keep it after printing.

ETA: here are the meshes before .stl triangulation.




Andy, fortunately if you look closely it becomes obvious it's not a photograph. I'm not thrilled with the idea of AI being able to generate images that can be mistaken for real photographs even with close inspection.
 
Andyp":3m8rrwl1 said:
Dave, I have looked as close as I can, what am I missing?
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Andy, I see it is places like the front edges of the seats on the left hand benches and the legs of the third and fourth benches on the left. The wall on the right side is a little off although hard to describe why. It's subtle but it's there.
 
Well, it's been a while since I shared anything so here are a few different things done with SketchUp.

First, a heel strap assembly for a wheelchair. It helps to keep the user's feet on the footplate. The strap is HTD8M belting. The clips are 3D printed.

Heel strap hook HTD8M
Real prototype.
Strap
Prototype installed but not trimmed to length. Ignore the dog hair.
Heel strap

A neat little vise.
Tiny Vise 1
Exploded.
Tiny Vise 2

A beam compass.
Beam Compass

A micrometer attributed to James Watt and dated to about 1775.
Micrometer

There's some woodworking related stuff coming but I need to be cleared by the client before I can share it.
 
This is my grandfather's shop stool. It must be at least 65 years old. Original paint and all.


I decided to make a 3D model of it as a record. If a guy had a lathe be could make a new one like it.


 
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Dave, the red stool really looks too good for a workshop.

Mine gets bashed and shoved around.
It is a metal frame bar stool at least 70 years old.
I have replaced the wooden seat a couple of time and then new foam and some scrap cover.
 
AndyP said:
I like the design of that 3 legged chair. Has it been made?
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Hi Andy. I modeled that chair based on photos of a real one dated to 1967. I've never built a real one from the model, though. That is a child-sized chair designed by Dieter Gullert. I don't think it would be a difficult build at all.
 
Well I have CAD programmes but I can't do anything like you have just line drawings that's me. I think they all look brilliant so clever too.

Nice work.
 
This is an example drawer I modeled for a tutorial for a woodworker. He wanted to model an integrated drawer pull on the bottom edge of a drawer. The interior of the pull shape isn't exactly the way it should be but this was just to give him the idea.

Cherry Drawer

And a bar clamp based on a dimensioned drawing in a technical drawing book from Spain. Not sure of the date but guessing 1950s.

bar clamp
 
If I’d been told these were photographs of actual pieces of furniture I would NOT* have thought otherwise.


Edit * see below
 
Opps. Sorry to DaveR and thanks Steve for pointing out the error. Or course I meant that I would not have thought otherwise had I been told this was a photograph of an actual piece of furniture
 
Thanks gentlemen.

As for the images that might be mistaken for photographs, I do try to leave something that makes it clear they aren't photos. I'm not interested in deceiving anyone. ;)

This is an experiment with a SketchUp model and a rendering application. Click on the image to get to an animated view.

FWIW, this is a simple enough thing to do. Most of it is automated. If you were creating 3D models to show clients, this idea might be useful for adding a bit of a wow factor.
 
A few images of things modeled in SketchUp since there hasn't been anything lately.







This was modeled for 3D printing.

Printed and installed.
 


Small table designed by Alexis Dolese and artist's easel designed by Amanda Russell. Watercolour painting by Henry Stannard, RBA (c.1885). I did the SketchUp models of the table and easel for shop drawings for Fine Woodworking Magazine. I recently took the painting to a conservator who did a wonderful job. I've been searching for information on the painting but it's been out of circulation for perhaps 70 years so probably no one left who knew of it.
 
AndyP said:
I’ve probably said it before but if you had told me these were photos or finished items I would no5 have doubted .
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Thank you Andy.

It's never been my intention to deceive anyone.

BTW, the image of the axle tube on the wheelchair is a photograph as is the image of the red stool with the paint drips on it. ;)
 
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