SchreiberBike

What we have here is one jury which was persuaded to do something stupid. The decision will probably be reversed/adjusted on appeal or out of court. I've got to guess that One World really handled this poorly in the court room or else many of the points made here would have been understood by the jury.

Keep in mind that there were 59,999 table saw injuries last year where there was no lawsuit and no reward. The sky is not falling.

I recently modeled a bed in the Thomas Sheraton style where the square to round section creates an urn shape on the flat. I looked for a straightforward way to do it but couldn’t find one. I ended up tracing the flat from the existing bed with a crayon onto paper, scanning that into the computer, importing it in to SketchUp, tracing the shape with lines and curves, then scaling circles along a cylinder to intersect that line.

It worked, but it seemed like there must have been a simpler way. Any suggestions? It seemed like there should have been some way to project lines around curved arcs of various radiuses.

That's a fun project. I started from the jpg and got to the same place the same way. (That doesn't always happen.) I can't make my output look as good as yours though. Are the pictures of the model native SU output, or were those rendered with another program.

Thanks,

A trick which saves a few clicks when duplicating the other half of a symmetrical model is "paste in place." It only works if the piece you are duplicating/reversing is a component or a group.

Select your component or components, copy (using ctl c) and, paste in place (I have shift c set up as a shortcut). This puts a copy right on top of the original. Scaling this copy by -1 then puts the reversed copy into just the right place without having to move it.

Thanks for the tip Dave. That's a winner for woodworkers. I can't wait to play.