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Mr. Kenny
I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my post.

So, according to you the dictionary isn't a reliable source for the definition of a word?

Now if I understand the rest of your post (which given your understanding of the role of a dictionary, I have my doubts) your explanation of Mr. Gilpin's design talents somehow go from 'impeccable' to 'good' and ends up as 'nice'.

OK well at this point I think what I will do is just pretend I never asked the question in the first place.

Oh and btw if laughing really does cause you to worry well you have my sympathy.

Perhaps my previous comment is in need of a little cleanup.

The post was intended to be directed towards the author of the post Mr. Kenny (I return to this post to see if he responded). I found the use of the term 'impeccable' a little pretentious (and a little humorous) and just to drive to point home consider the following:

Impeccable:
1 : not capable of sinning or liable to sin
2 : free from fault or blame : flawless

DavePanetta:
The question was who not what but regardless do you really what to claim that 'makes money at it' = good (impeccable) design?

spinnb8:
I certainly wouldn't disagree with your comment but you know what they say when we 'assume'. I am not familiar with 'Launching the Imagination' however I am aware of the importance of the imagination in the creative process. Another interesting book on this subject is 'Conceptual Blockbusting' by James Adams.

Having spent time in a similar position (trying to develop design skills in others) I understand the dearness a student can (usually does) develop for their ideas. While the three scheme technique does force students to realize that they are capable of more than one potential idea, it can have a perverse effect as well. More times than I care to remember a student has come to the conclusion that the surviving idea is the only 'good' idea they had and thus is worth defending at all costs. Consequently I believe it is important to continue impress upon all students that the a successful design process is highly dependent on process of critic which includes self-criticism.

Please ignore my previous post since it has been deemed invalid (even through it is in fact accurate).

"I used the Tape Measure tool to measure the distance between the front edge of the side component and the curve."

Given the combination of geometries it might be useful to give more detail as to how you measured this distance. The distance measured orthogonally, referenced from the side, will be larger than the distance measured radially from the arc. Given how small the actual dimensions are in this particular case the difference would be very small but still real. One needs to pay special attention when working with a combination of orthogonal and radial geometries.

wondering who decided that "Hank’s sense of design is impeccable"....

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Just because something can be done (in sketchup) doesn't mean it should be done....

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throwing my business card in the fishbowl

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I used my planer to thickness all the studs in both directions ( I clipped off each end using my miter saw to get rid of the ragged ends where most of the nail holes were ). I then cut the studs to a length that I could handle on my table saw and using a stop block I cut the studs into blocks. It took quite some time. The blocks were glued up into 5 planks just under 12" wide so I could send them back through the planer to re-level them after the glue up. However, the planer produced small amounts of tear out in the end grain, so I found a local cabinet shop with a wide belt sander and had them sand the planks flat. For the final glue up I was able to align the joints with culls and clamps. Good luck with your own version and if you have any other question just ask.

Keith

You might want to experiment with the scale tool for mirroring (the video I posted below is a good primer), while it is more cumbersome to execute than the 'flip along' command, it is completely predictable, and therefore has none of the frustrations associated with the flip command.

Tim

I wouldn't have bothered you again if you would have simply stated you weren't interested, instead of claiming there are 'other means'. I am sorry to have intruded. Btw are you always this friendly (that's rhetorical no need to answer).

Tim

My own experience is that when extracting a cutlist from a project containing multiple mirrored parts it is very useful (to me at least) for the cutlist to list how many lefts and rights or tops and bottoms there are. Since you obviously strongly disagree with my methodology (and are clearly an expert in Sketchup) could you do me the favor of explaining further what you mean by 'other means'? Thanks

As far as using the -1 scale to mirror I started to use it after I become frustrated with always seeming to pick the wrong axis to flip around, perhaps its a sort of dyslexia but the -1 scale works correctly for me first time every time and is faster than using flip twice.

for a completely different take on how to mirror (using the scale tool) take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbbuqskh0wo

Also its important to realize that if you are mirroring components you should consider making the mirrored versions into separate components (since they are in fact a reverse of the original)using the 'make unique' function in the right mouse button pop up menu. The trade off is the ease of modifying both the version at once vs accurately tracking the parts of the model.

Dave,
Thinking in terms of how a thing is made in the real world can be very useful when trying to think through how to model it in Sketchup (particularly for the inexperienced), however, this method doesn't leverage several of the advantages that exist only in the Sketchup world. For example there is no real world equivalent for how the arrow keys can lock the direction of travel parallel to one of the axises. Additonally, Sketchup's uses of inferences is very powerful and has no real world equivalent. Using inferences can dramatically reduce the number of construction lines needed and thus make model building more efficient. A good primer on inferencing is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDvwHon6-zY