Sketchup your next enclosure

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

noone uses sketchup, its obselete lmao.

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

noone uses sketchup, its obselete lmao.

That why all of your "designs" are done up in sketchup? Bleh... move along little one... move along

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

doubting my design ability i see? its all good, i mean you couldnt even account the sarcasm in my post.

id love to have a way to do a plexi window with certain logos and shit. anyone know how? omarvelous did it, but i couldnt figure how.

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

doubting my design ability i see? its all good, i mean you couldnt even account the sarcasm in my post.


id love to have a way to do a plexi window with certain logos and shit. anyone know how? omarvelous did it, but i couldnt figure how.

Import the logo into the design on sketchup... or... use it as a custom material and keep it opaque enough to be transparent

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

doesnt it have to be a vector? and how do u make it so the window is like the design, not a window with the design "sandblasted" into it

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

VERY roughly done, but you get the idea...

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

doesnt it have to be a vector? and how do u make it so the window is like the design, not a window with the design "sandblasted" into it

Do some work in photoshop and make a new material... or... are you talking @ something else?

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

say i have a pic with the word "300ZX" in the style i want. but i want it as a plexi window on the box. like the most be wood, but just the words be plexi and see through.

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

say i have a pic with the word "300ZX" in the style i want. but i want it as a plexi window on the box. like the most be wood, but just the words be plexi and see through.

Ahhhh ok I get what you mean... takes alil work on photoshop to do it, but you can make a material that is the size of the wood, and then from there make the logo transparent. Apply the material and you should be good.... Otherwise... you could make the logo ontop of the wood in sketchup then drop it down to cut it out.

 

[Eldorado 5,000+ posts]

Im finding it really hard to get exact dimensions.

It doesnt like to do just 12" its gotta be 12" and 3/4" or 12" and 1/4" or dumb crap like that.

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

Zoom in a little closer to the piece you are working on. You can do this (if you have a scroll mouse) using the scroll wheel, or use the zoom tool (can do this even while you are in the midst of making a particular panel). If you want to get exact dimensions... you can also type in the number directly for each side of the panel... 12" (or 1'), 16" (or 1' 4"). the panel will automatically go to the right size. Just click the mouse button and voila.

 

[Eldorado 5,000+ posts]

I had it zoomed in pretty good.

I wasnt shure if i could just type in the dimension or not.

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

I had it zoomed in pretty good.I wasnt shure if i could just type in the dimension or not.

Yeah... it is really cool that way. You can zoom in a lil closer, type it in directly, hell you can even use the measure tape tool before you begin and have every dimension laid out in advance Along with the protractor tool. The sky is the limit.

 

[Eldorado 5,000+ posts]

I made an enclosure but i screwed it up when i was all done and couldnt go back and fix it.

But it was good learnin.

 

[Alaxan 5,000+ posts]

I made an enclosure but i screwed it up when i was all done and couldnt go back and fix it.But it was good learnin.

meet my good friend... ctrl+z lol... undoes all the nasty shit that was not done properly