A clipped table border in SketchUp

A while in the past I modeled a small swinging espresso desk primarily based on pictures of 1 courting from 1760. The highest is attention-grabbing, however being primarily based on a sq. I do not suppose it matches very nicely with the three legs of the pedestal. The opposite day I noticed an image of a desk that seemed like a sort of edge within the type of a sine wave. Here’s a video displaying how I did the modeling. To maintain issues easy for this demo, I used pretty giant curves. I feel I might most likely love to do a smaller curve unit. In fact, this identical course of can be utilized with different border patterns as nicely.

I used some extensions and plugins to hurry issues up. The hyperlinks are under; nonetheless I might suggest getting them by way of the Extension Warehouse or Sketchucation ExtensionStore instrument.

curve maker (yuck)

TrueBend (yuck)

TIG welding (scf)–Newer variations of SketchUp Professional have a local weld edges function that can be utilized as an alternative. I simply have not modified my keyboard shortcut but.

Bool Tools 2 (ewh)–This toolset could be very helpful for reducing and mixing elements. This set of instruments works in SketchUp 2017 Make in addition to SketchUp Professional. For SketchUp Professional customers, there’s additionally Eneroth Stable Instruments.

Eneroth Automatic Welding (ewh)–This can be a extra highly effective weld instrument than the native Weld Edges or TIG-Weld. It is going to mechanically weld the perimeters of the Observe Me profiles and undergo a variety set and weld all the perimeters that may be welded. I discover it very helpful after utilizing the Boolean instruments Bool Instruments 2 as a result of they find yourself exploding curves when they’re executed.

–Dave