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Your sketchup process
eds1275:
Since the vast majority of us seems to be using sketchup to zip up our ideas, I want to know if anyone has any tips or tricks on their order of operations.
For me, I draw one side and make it a component, then draw the inside edge of the machine along the face of the component and "push/Pull? it out to form the machine. Then I copy and flip the side component, and stick it on the other side.
From there I usually dump it into blender because I have drawn up a few coin doors, joysticks, and button types so I assemble the controls and then render it out just because of the image quality of blender. Of course, blender is the most confusing program in the world :angry: but I've started wrapping my head around it.
I have seen some people draw up every single batten and even animate things in Sketchup.
Nephasth:
Push/pull is my most used tool in Sketchup.
HaRuMaN:
I draw everything in 2D, import the DWG into sketchup, push pull to make the parts and then assemble
EightBySix:
Everything is a component, nested within others
Slippyblade:
I'm one of those folks that sketch up every single part. The way I use it I SHOULD be using SolidWorks, but I don't have a spare $10k burning a hole in my pocket... :angry: