You can access that video review by clicking here. Both he and I were a little surprised that it has been 5 years since he reviewed the original edition of “Woodworker’s Guide to SketchUp”. He is one-third of “Wood Talk Online” along with Marc Spagnuolo and Shannon Rogers.
Matt has been around for a long time in real life and in “internet” years.
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I’m going to keep searching for the perfect mix of inexpensive, precise, beautiful and inspiring.Click on the image to visit Matt’s site and leave a comment there before Jfor a chance to win a free copy of “New Woodworker’s Guide to SketchUp” My ring on the other hand, was super easy to create and I was happy with the print and even posted it to Thingiverse. There’s no way this will scale to real world precise modeling. Yes, I could figure that out, but I refuse to. So now I need to figure out what factor of 19.915 I need to set it to.
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While I’m scaling it the software doesn’t tell me the size, just a factor. I select the shape, then select the Scale tool and try to resize by pulling the arrow.
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I want the interior wall to be 5.34mm plus the thickness of the wall that’s 6.34. I need to know the thickness of the cylinder wall, so I select the measure tool, select the interior wall and the exterior wall and see that it’s 1mm Frustrating and I don’t know why it didn’t move. I enter –14.575, hit enter and it doesn’t move. So I need to reduce my cylinder by 14.575mm. Get the measurements by hitting the “I” key on the keyboard and see that it is 19.915mm. Here’s what I would have to do if I wanted to change the bottom cylinder to exactly 5.34mm diameter on the interior wall. Since 123D Design doesn’t easily let you adjust objects to exact dimensions the thought of having to scale this down to size is daunting – I actually won’t even try. It took me about an hour to create this Chi lego piece, but it wasn’t to scale. You must learn the keyboard shortcuts.ĭoesn't allow you to use the ruler and the scale tool at the same time, so you have to measure, then switch tools, then measure, then switch, etc. After selecting an object, I have to move my mouse from my object to the top of the screen to hover over a menu, then hover over the tool I want, then click the tool, then go back to my object. You always have to select and object and then select a tool. No default tool when you select an object. I quickly outgrew this app because I need exact measurements and I need to be able to print something and then go back and quickly tweak anything by a fraction of a millimeter. You can scale by a factor, but you end up doing math as you are modeling to get exact measurements.
Nearly impossible to change dimensions of objects. Great for fast prototyping and rough sketches. SketchUp is great for exact measurements, but lacks with curved beautiful drawings. I did some rounded corners with it as shown below, but it was very difficult to get it perfect. There is a rounded corner extension (), but while I appreciate the effort didn't work for my ring. I tried the "Smooth option", but it didn't work right away so I gave up. Maybe there's a way to tweak that, but I want my modeling software to create smooth textures by default. !(/images/blog/a696917931fe_478E/image_3.png)Īnd the edge of the circle isn't a nice smooth round surface. By default you can't round the corners of a curved face.
!(/images/blog/a696917931fe_478E/image.png)īut then I tried to build a wedding ring – an extruded circle with rounded corners. I built this extender with SketchUp and it worked out well because it is made up of a lot of straight lines and I was happy with SketchUp. I wasn't inspired to create beautiful models with it. Nearly impossible to create perfectly smooth lines and rounded corners.įeels very dated. Guide lines, protractor, rulers are very helpful when doing detailed work. Great for drawing straight lines and exact measurements. Hopefully this post saves you some time as you go about researching your 3D modeling software options. I’m going off of this Wikipedia list and recommendations from friends, but please feel free to make recommendations in the comments. I’m starting with the free options to see how far I can get. My requirements are: free or inexpensive, easy to use, precise and inspiring. I do relatively small maker type enclosures and product designs. I’m just getting into 3D modeling and I’m searching for the perfect software.
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