Creating a Screw with Sketchup

How many times you have wondered how to make the thread of a screw with SketchUp, or not? Here is the answer!

First you draw a circle. We click on the instrument "Circle" in the toolbar and then on the point of origin of the axes and widen our circle by following one, red or green, with the cursor, so that the vertices of the segments that make up the match with aces.

Created the circle, from this, we have to create a spiral. The steps to follow are the same that you can find in the post "HOW TO CREATE A SPRING WITH SKETCHUP", would not explain them again.

Now we have a cylinder created by the initial circle and a spiral of the same diameter with the plugin "Weld" we welded into a single segment.

It 'important to create a group of one of the two models, in this case, my group is the spiral. This is to avoid that the two models, when superimposed, is intersichino between them. Then we position the spiral over the cylinder so that the segments coincide perfectly with each other.

We click on the instrument "Move" and then on the group spiral with the "CTRL" key to create a copy, spostiamola down along the blue axis until it reaches the center of the original one (see image below).

Now we can explode groups of spirals so as to intersect the segments with those of the cylinder.

We click on the spiral just created to highlight it , then the instrument "Scale" and finally, with the CTRL key pressed on the handle of the solid angle at the center, ...

... Pull outwards and ...

The screw ... is ready.

Under another example of a solid made with the same method created simply by moving the internal spiral downwards.

Or this' other using the plugin "Joint Push-Pull".

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Published By

Rajib Dey

sketchup-ur-space.com

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Transform your sketchup skills to the next level with sketchup extension warehouse

Extension Warehouse of SketchUp is a great source for all 3D Modeling Professionals as they can enhance their 3d modeling skills by looking for proper plugins to fulfill their requirements.

Extensions refer to an additional features and functionality that can be easily included with a sketchup program. The extensions perform like a third-party scripts to provide definite functions automatically. If any plugin is helpful and trendy, the owners of a program prefer to purchase the extension and integrate it into upcoming releases of the program.

SketchUp’s Extension Warehouse is launched in 2013. It is an online repository of extensions and plugins. To use the Extension Warehouse, open SketchUp and select Window > Extension Warehouse and explore through Extension Warehouse within SketchUp. Just sign into your Google account and start looking for a particular extension as well as different categories. After that select install and pursue the instructions.

The extension warehouse facilitates the users to search for a productivity boosting function or an advanced rendering application. Besides, the extension warehouse is a great source for handling an extension library. If any user wants to instantly update, transfer, or re-install all their extensions, just log-in to Extension Warehouse within SketchUp and avail some exclusive features through “My Extensions” page.

All the extensions belong to different types of sectors that range from architecture, engineering, gaming, kitchen & bathroom installations, woodworking, heavy civil, interior design, landscaping, urban planning, construction industries, film & stage and education.

There are wide array of categories like rendering, reporting, drawing, text and labeling, 3d printing, scheduling, import & export, developer tools, productivity, animation and energy analysis.

It is expected that till date, more than 1 million extensions are downloaded from Extension Warehouse as well as more than 50 developers have contributed near about 245 extensions.

Each and every day, several developers present new extensions and upgrades. These extensions transform Sketchup as an inevitable tool for 3D modelers and designers and add diversified features to Sketchup.

Extension Warehouse is also considered as the useful place for creating and allocating various open source projects that range from SketchUp STL extension, Shapes,WikiHouse and Developer Tools.

With the arrival of sketchup 2014 (it includes a new extension warehouse), it becomes easier to pursue and set up these extensions while applying either SketchUp Pro or SketchUp Make.

While setting up extensions from Extension Warehouse, the users can log-in to the extension warehous from SketchUp 2014 and "Install All" under "My Extensions." It will put in all the available extensions which are well-matched with SketchUp 2014.

As the Ruby environment is upgraded to version 2.0 in sketchup 2014, the users have to follow a new way for dealing with the extensions. Besides, the users will not be able to access all the possible plugins in the extension warehouse as well as paid plugins.

Some users have to get through their old plugin list individually, look for that plugin in the Extension Warehouse, set up the plugin, and move ahead next. As soon as the plugins are managed through the Extension Warehouse, it becomes considerably easier to re-install these extensions once the new versions of SketchUp will be available in the future, or if you have a new computer and installation of a fresh copy of SketchUp 2014 is necessary. If the user set up plugins from the Extension Warehouse in SketchUp 2013 and now it is necessary to set up the same plugin in SketchUp 2014, there exists an Install All button in the Extension Warehouse to set up any SketchUp 2013 plugins into SketchUp 2014 instanly. It is applicable, if those plugins are updated to support 2014.

How to set up extensions

Automatic process

If you possess Sketchup 2013 or latest version, you can access to the extension warehouse by going Window > Extension Warehouse. Once you click it, the following window will be visible.

After getting the Extension Warehouse window open, you have to sign in to your account. The ‘Sign in’ button is available in top right. Without sign in, you can’t download or set up the extensions this way.

Search through your favorite sketchup extension and after getting one, hit the download button with red color available in the upper right corner.

You have to pass by some pop-up menus. Just pursue them to set up your extension.

Manual Process

Find an extension on the web. Ensure that your .rbz file is saved in a suitable and proper location to get if effortlessly. It is recommended to place it in a Sketchup/Tools folder. In older versions, it may be in the Sketchup/Plugin folder.

• Visit Window>Preferences
• Ensure that Extensions are selected on the left side
• Press Install Extension at the bottom left

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Ron Paulk's Super Mobile Woodshop is Complete, and He's Posted the Sketchup Plans for Free Download

When last we looked in on Washington-based builder Ron Paulk, he was on the verge of completing his kick-ass Mobile Woodshop. Contained inside a 1,000-cubic-foot box truck, Paulk's comprehensive design ingeniously incorporates every major power tool a contractor would need, features copious parts-and-materials storage, and is loaded up with a plethora of clever design solutions.

Since our initial coverage, Paulk's uploaded a video tour of the completed project:

Even better, Paulk has uploaded his complete Google Sketchup plans free of charge. We admire both Paulk's design ingenuity—as one example you can see in the video tour above, he wisely eschewed expensive drawer slides and found simple dados in plywood to be a superior solution—and his generosity in sharing the final design, which is the result of not only the several months he put into drawing up and constructing the project, but of his decades of experience in building things. The plans are available here, and our thanks go out to Paulk.

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Rotary Lift expands digital offerings for facility planning assistant program

Rotary Lift is expanding the digital offerings available through its free assistPRO professional facility planning assistance service.

The program offers Rotary Lift customers assistance in designing new or remodeled shops. AssistPRO helps maximize shop efficiency and technician productivity by determining the optimal number, placement and arrangement of vehicle lifts. Rotary Lift’s in-house assistPRO team works with individual customers and architects to create custom facility layouts.

The new digital offerings include 3-D SketchUp models of Rotary Lift vehicle lifts. The models will be available for download through SketchUp’s 3D Warehouse athttps://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/ later in 2014. Rotary Lift currently offers CAD blocks, 3-D BIM models and written specifications for its products through ARCAT, and the SketchUp models will give architects and distributors an additional easy-to-use resource for helping customers.

“Dealers and independent shops have recovered from the recession and are starting to invest in their facilities again,” said Larry Kendall, assistPRO technical information specialist – facility planner for Rotary Lift. “No matter if they are expanding, moving into new buildings or just upgrading old equipment, it pays to utilize assistPRO. When you include lifts in your shop layout upfront, there is less of a chance you will need to go through a costly redesign and delay the project.”

After determining a facility’s intended use, the assistPRO team draws a floor layout with lifts placed for maximum productivity. Turning radii and traffic flow are matched to the types of vehicles serviced so technicians will be able to quickly pull into and out of the bays. Rotary Lift provides assistPRO layout drawings in CAD or PDF electronic formats or as color prints, based on customer preference. Turnaround is fast (usually seven to 10 days), so users can get to work on their new spaces as soon as possible.

  

 

  

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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Some exclusive workshops on digital manufacturing with sketchup

Some exclusive workshop will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on June, 2014 to discuss and practice how to utilize a CNC milling machine, 3d printer & PLA rapid prototyping, rapid 3d modeling with sketchup. The attendees will be provided a tailored 3d printer having a milling head to slice and form several materials. There will be practical training to accomplish small projects. Some open source software and machineries will be utilized in this workshop

By participating with this workshop, all the participants will be familiar with the fundamentals of digital fabrication and adopt all the essential knowledge required to produce simple 2d models to cut and shape.

The workshop will be very useful for Tinkerers, makers, product and industrial designers; architects, carpenters, engineers as well as any other professionals or individual prefer to put their steps in the enthralling world of digital manufacturing.

The workshop will be conducted in English language with Slovenian speaking assistant.

The attendees have to bring their individual laptop with SketchUp installed.

·         COURSE OUTLINE:

·         Begins with the CNC mill parts

·         The software tool-series

·         Where to find ready-made 3d models

·         Build up your project with basic sketchup tools for digital model customization

·         From .jpg to .stl

·         Modify .stl files

·         Project Milling

·         Fundamental of digital fabrication and the 3^rd general revolution

Fees for workshop

Register online

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.sketchup4architect.com

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Post Production Technique for Architectural Renderings

Mark Lester Ocampo

Hello everyone! I want to show you a great tutorial about a post-production techniques. Mark Lester Ocampo will show you step by step how to process finished render combining vray render output elements in Photoshop. Thanks to Mark at this great video content.

Hi, my name is Mark Lester Ocampo, from the Philippines, currently based in the Kingdom of Bahrain as a Designer & 3D Visualizer. in 2005, I started interests in 3d and animation when I was still working as a graphic artist and later on studied at school on weekends while working on regular days, by that time i’m also fixated with photography plus my mastery of Photoshop as used from my day-to-day work which eventually helped me a lot when I was learning 3dsMax, it soon paved the way for me to make the switch to my current job.

I believe that my passion for computer graphics fueled my continuous improvement every day such as non-stop researching and experimenting different ideas of mine to excel my current level and achieve the next, which I do believe is necessary to evolve and be on-par with client’s needs and other artist’s criticism.

    

 

 

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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How to create this field for football with Sketchup

Simone Piccioni

First I created a regulatory field , ie, a rectangle of 117 x 64 mm , and I drew the lines of the game inspired by some photos found on the net.

 

At this point, with 15 mm thick boards , I created a box around the field , each of these is a component so if we're going to work on an automatic will change all copies and this will be very useful in the later stages.

   

This field needs to be a little ' raised , perhaps with legs 80x80 mm square base (they are always copies of a component ) , in the lower part of the legs I created with squares slightly smaller.

   

To hold the whole structure, but also to give more realism , I added the bolts. But back to the speech of the components, if we add the bolts entering the component " Paw " ( just click twice above) magically appear on the other leg ... unless you do not want to repeat several times the same operation.

   

However, the realization of the bolts is very simple but effective . I created two cylinders of different sizes (see photo below). In the smaller one I created with the tool "Offset" a circle even smaller.

   

and I reduced to 5 the number of segments in the information entity and then push it slightly inward.

   

To give more realism to the bolt I rounded the edge of the smaller cylinder with the plugin "Round Corner".

   

Finally, this is the result.

   

We return to the playing field ... All football fields of the banks have in order not to stop the ball , even mine, and it is a triangle 20 x 20 mm which runs along its perimeter , obviously not at the door.

   

But now comes the fun part ! Make 8 equally spaced holes 20x20mm larger than one in the middle . Easier said than done.

   

I added the rings around the holes where they will spend the iron bars of the players and a boss where you stop bars of 'opponent . Even these have rounded them with the plugin "Round Corner" and I have also added the screws.

   

For the central hole instead I made a ring in her size then I created a quarter-sphere and I pulled one of the two sections,

   

and I combined everything.

   

Then I mounted the door , always with screws. Make it however you like , I took a cue from the internet.

   

To count the points I made a cube and rounded edges always with the plugin "Round Corner" and copied 12 times.

   

This is where things get complicated. To achieve the tiller handle I drew half of his section,

   

then with the instrument , "Follow me ," I have followed the trajectory of a circle of 30 segments that I drew earlier.

   

But with a handle so ' smooth swivels are wasted.

   

So to give it a more boxy shape I created a hole decagonal ( that ugly word ... ) on a rectangle,

   

of sufficient scale to bring out its corners slightly from the cylindrical part of the ' grip making sure it is perfectly centered.

   

From the rectangle tool " Push / Pull " I have created a solid to almost completely cover the ' grip , I exploded and then highlighted everything, then open the drop-down menu I clicked on " Intersect with Model".

   

After deleting segments of the white solid I can only delete segments that are intersected with the decagon ( parts violet photo below).

   

And also the handle is ready.

   

Now the tricky part. Players!

  

I started with an image I found on the net and began modeling on this half player. We need a little 'practice.

 

As you can see in the ' image below , I created a border that would ply Sock player.

 

To make it I used another plugin called "Joint push pull," virtually acts as the instrument "Push/Pull"

 

but with the ability push / pull faces at the same time more complex solids (see photo below).

   

I used the same plugin for the collar of his shirt. So a few tweaks to the head and body,

   

and I joined a mirrored copy

   

To round better player , I used the plugin " Subdivide and smooth " setting the iteration to 1.

Now, just assemble and paint all the pieces. I also added the springs at the end of the race of the bars, you can see how to implement them by clicking here.

The field is ready!

  

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Published By

Arka Roy

www.sketchup-ur-space.com

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