SketchUp: Drawing Springs
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- Опубликовано: 22 авг 2024
- David from GeekThis will explain how to draw a spring in SketchUp. This is just a basic compression spring that is drawn, and with the tools and skills learned in this you will be able to draw any type of spring you need.
Good tutorial. I HATE those that are less than 2 minutes with a poor view, stupid music, and no one telling you either verbally or with text how to do something. One thing I wish to point out. You are doing what I call "make work" with the follow me tool to make the spring segments 3D. Instead or how you did it which can be a real headache for many, all you needed to do was select the "wireframe" of the spring, click on the follow me tool, and then click on the circle. Much easier and faster.
Little tip. When doing the follow me task, select the full spring path using triple click, then click follow me, then click the face you want to extrude, boom, follow action complete.
Great video, I was drawing a large helix antenna with hundreds of turns to the spring.
You don't need to do the hand-placement and drawing of the structure to copy the spring segments. Instead select the first arc you did, press M to move then press CTRL to make a copy then follow the blue axis (for example) to make sure you are moving vertically. Type the spacing 7 (for seven inches) and press enter then type x10 or whatever and you end up with 10 equally spaced spring segments. No extra drawing and deleting required.
I'm forever thankful for the multiplication tip you mentioned! That could have saved me a lot of work on multiple occasions.
Thank you! This was a very good video, no messing about talking loads of rubbish , you just got right on to it, you helped me no end 👍
For "follow me", high light ALL the lines. They'll turn blue. This is the path. Then select follow me. It'll do it nice and quick. No need to pull the circle around all the lines. Connecting lines: Green dot to green dot. As long as it says you grabbed the end point, your good to go.
Thank you so much it's very helpful 🙏
It's easier to create one full turn of spring and then copy it repeatedly at once entering X+(number of copies) command right after copying.
nice tutrial,cheers mate.
You can now do this the real easy way with the DrawHelix plugin (sites.google.com/site/jimfoltz/sketchup/my-sketchup-plugins/drawhelix/drawhelix14.rb) If you want too extrude a profile through the helix, you can use a simple circle, ungroup the helix and use the followme tool. Other shapes can be extruded using the ShapeBender plugin. See my nut and bolts vid for the plugins in action.
Nope... its only a proper sping when viewed from 1 side, turn 90 degrees and you will notice it goes to a large flat spot
Very very useful. ...
very nice
thank you so much this rely helped me :-)
Thank you so muchhh
I only have one question. How do you take this spring and use it in another model without having to redraw it? I am stuck trying to move a component into larger project.
Amerijam Acres There are a few ways to do this. The first way is to highlight the spring using the cursor tool (select the full object) and right click and "Create Component". You can then copy and paste the component into the next project. The other way is to delete everything from the document other than the spring and save the file as a SKP file. Then in your new document go to "File > Import" and import the previously exported SKP file.
Thank you. I am a little embarrassed that I didn't try that. Thanks for unblocking me. I'm new to this have a lot to learn. That's a big help.
Damn, u seem to have a vocal error! But other than that it's a very nice tutorial!
I'm actually trying to do something else, I was hoping to learn how to do a screw, but the tutorials that I found so far only show how to create this type of screw: www.datacad.com/temp/Screw-02.png
But since I'm big on the small things (lol) I wanna make it more realistic and do it like this: myword.info/images/sm_screw_1i.gif
If you can help with anything along these lines it would be greatly appreciated!
And tnx for this tutorial!
is there any plugin I can compress and decompress my spring without scaling it?
Easiest way to play with the spring parameters in this program is to make a copy of initial spring path(or make it component) before the extrusion.
Strictly speaking, this is not a spring.
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