![]() ![]() I'm going to open that, and search for the term Bezier, and install the Bezier Spline script by Fredo6. IMHO, this is a contemporary way to do CAD work, Sketchup is rooted into the past.- Here, I have the SketchUcation Extension Store installed. Through, as it is a cloud program, you can work with other people and make collaborative projects, or simply getting some help when you feel lost. With Onshape, the history of the model is saved, and you can build up versions, then go back. You have a lot of part-oriented advanced functions, like making a parametric model with relationship between values, you can modify on the fly to validate a design. And if you start to use a real CAD program, you will never go back. It's a real CAD program on cloud, which is pretty well documented, with video tutorials for each function and a huge user community too. If you want to go one step further and go faster, try Onshape for example. I would make the same analyse for Tinkercad : programs which looks simple at the start, but which makes everything complicated later. There's so many free programs which are really made to make parts and not made to build quickly naive buildings. I still wonder why people keep on using Sketchup. Estensions is probably the way to go with Sketchup. So I will be giving your suggestions a try. Regrettably, trying something even slightly different requires starting over from the beginning. It is slow, time consuming and not in the least elegant, but it works well enough to see how something is going to look. This gives me a rough approximation for the curve which I can then rotate into 3D. I draw the curve I want on graph paper, then transfer the coordinates to SketchUp, guide point by guide point. I have figured out a way to bludgeon out a solution. Bob, you make it sound easy so I'll give it a try later. I want to get to do some woodworking today, so I was trying to avoid the prospect of spending a lot of time figuring out the download part and then learning how the extension works. I have it running in the background for reference when I am using SketchUp. Bob Lang's eBook is very helpful and I'll put in a plug for it here (no charge Bob). The price is that it has a learning curve and since I use it infrequently I usually have to re-learn quite a bit. So SketchUp is a real boone in that regard. ![]() But I cannot for the life of me draw anything that is 3 dimensional on a piece of paper. I can draw 2 D on graph paper quickly and accurately, and I don't have to boot up the pencil. I find SketchUp to be a blessing and a curse, about 1/3 blessing and 2/3 curse. Yes Jean, I am trying to do curves like your examples. Some methods are better than others depending on what you wanna do. There's different ways to make curves in Sketchup, which is a very poor tool IMO. I thought you wanted to make something like this in Sketchup : ![]()
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