Twisting Tutorial Part 2

Last crawled date: 3 years ago

This is part 2 so you first need to go to 'Twisting Tutorial' ** First, you need to understand that sketchup can only make flat surfaces and straight lines, for example, a cylinder just looks curved, but the if you look close, the side is actually a bunch of flat surfaces blended together. So when you want to make a twisting face, you really end up with a bunch of flat triangles blended together. In this model is a cylinder shown normally (orange), and with the lines (purple) to demonstrate that curved objects are flat surfaces and curved lines are several of straight lines. ~~ In my tutorial, you first see a yellow cube with 2 curved lines around the edges that I used to make the curves the same. - Next you see the cube removed and only the necessary lines remain. - In the red you se that when I used the form contours tool, sketchup was confused and it ended up funky. So I made this one manually. - In the blue, you see how I manually drew all of the lines to make the surface. It doesn’t look curved or twisted yet, so there is 1 more step. - The last step is to soften the edges. You use the eraser tool while pressing the Ctrl key to make the lines invisible and give the appearance of being curved. = And that is how to make a curved or twisted surface in sketchup. #curved #curving #iskidoyou #twisted #twisting