SketchUp MNPCtech & Bit-Tech.net case design contest #5 - (Deadline moved to September 1st)

awesome
i get away from the internet for two weeks and there's a new design comp ! I'm in !!!
if i can get 3ds to work on my laptop

what else did i miss ?

 

woo autosaving is already taking 30 seconds. I only have one board in it so far -.-

 

muahaha

Spoiler

20xintel core i7 m-itx board goodness

Edit:

Toned it down a little, fits better

 

As long as you get it in before I start the voting thread the morning of August 2nd I'm OK with it. It might be a good Idea to get it in a day or two earlier though, just in case.

 

a cluster comp...................

im out


edit: i lied, my idea just transformed

 

Yay! Everyone's joining in! Someone wake up Rowin4Kicks and Scooby. I want to see some wild designs.
@Dark - You missed the render portion cratering, but hey, a new contest started!
@Arterius gmork - There's a chance everyone will scream for a deadline bump again.
@Confusis - What are you going to do about the center area? -Micro-itx, then Pico?

-Also, You beat me to the first picture post.

Let's see if anyone can figure out what I'm up to here...*wrings hands together*


@Disturbed - Don't you dare give up on us!

 

Centre will house the W/C components...

Pico itx is worthless for folding

 

Two can play that game

 

Ive had sod all time but heres a sneak, hopefully ill make all the rounds this time!

 

Does anyone know of a plugin to automatically fill in a curved face. This is going to take me hours. I have done a 90th of one face lol.

 

I cant think of any off the top of my head, it depends on what you're doing, could you offset the curve by 1mm or something and then push/pull the face?

Or could this work somehow


Its difficult without actually seeing what you want to achieve, but thats a secret right

 

Can I assume that perspective drawings are acceptable?

Pencil to Paper and Adobe's Illustrator are my preferred mediums, and I haven't had the opportunity to stretch my legs for a while.

It's more than capable. Of course in considering the 'no-rendering' rule I'd keep it to a more simplistic result.

Verdict?

*j

 

Its not really a secret since no one can copy me. It's got a straight line at the bottom and top and the two sides of the face are curved and it kinda twists the face up so the squares have to be tiny. I've done next to none of it and it will take me hours

 

Gah I've got to come up with something now...
hmmm... lets see... yes...

 

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Thats what I'm working on. Very very time consuming filling the faces in. Any ideas to speed it up a bit? Otherwise there will only be half a case.

 

why do you make 32423554 faces when you could just make one ?

 

I dont understand? There are 45 squares so i knew where the curve had to go because my brain doesnt work at 2 in the morning and I have to make tiny faces because it wont let me make 1 on each side.

 

ahhh i see what you were doing now, Sketchup doesnt work on my netbook but im fairly sure it would have been easier to draw the square and pull it up to the cube height you want, then select the top face and rotate it 45* around the center, which would twist the side automatically.

EDIT: that doesnt work, its too blocky. Im not sure if theres an easier way but using the soap bubble plugin this just took 3 mins.

 

I don't know how to use that plugin because I tried it.

 

OOOH!
Roboduck has a satanic webber grill And 1384 has a meat grinder.

@Langer - C'mon in! 2D is welcome, as long as it's not a napkin scan.
@Motas- There's the extrusion tools toolkit. It might be still available in the last SU plugins thread. -I haven't had a chance to try them yet.

I have most of the frame for mine built, -gotta figure out how to skin it now.

-My take on the 'torture rack'.

-You can run it fully open too.

-Where I'm at after two power blinks. -Stupid hurricanes...