SketchUp Sketchup Components Collection (SCC) Discussion

How do people make the scaled models in SketchUP

Hi all,

I was browsing the SketchUP gallery for a model of a riser card and I keep asking myself. How do they make them so accurate>? I mean how do you know how big a capacitor is, let alone the thousand small details? I've seen last year on the Scandinavian Industrial Expo, a couple of machines that can scan anything in 3D, from toothpick to let's say gearbox, but I doubt a person has one at home, I mean they are pretty costly. I am not an engineer or something, that's why it is curious to me

 

Calliper and ruler, basically. We measure everything on the item that is to be modelled as accurately as possible.

 

Many electronic component manufacturers now provide 3D models of their products, which can speed up modelling a board considerably.

 

Decided to go public with my case design SketchUp models. Feel free to download and build, if you have the resources. Be warned, these files are very large! Download from here. Enjoy!

 

+ rep for your generous contribution.

 

Do you have any Autocad DWG files of that case?

 

No I'm afraid not, but if someone has SketchUp Pro, they may be able to export the SketchUp models in dwg format.

 

Can't you import .skp files into your CAD program?
I recently had some parts laser cut at a local engineers which I designed on sketchup the free version and the engineers discovered that they could use the sketchup files .skp and import them straight into their AutoCad program, they had not tried this before as most people send them AutoCad files but it worked fine and they were happy as it saved them a lot of time and me money

 

yo Mick64

i need some help with the drive cage , do u have measurments of them ? the holes and the spacing between drives?

 

I have put some ATX specification information on my Sky Drive. This includes hard drive, SSD and CD/DVD sizes and hole positions...

 

Mick64, there's some great looking models there, and the case looks fantastic all kitted out, must have taken ages.

I'm hoping to do similar with an NZXT Switch 810, only got as far as drawing the side panel, and I've had the case since the beginning of September.

 

Jez, I've just been looking on your component site for motherboard trays, the form factor sizes on this page just links to a .jpeg not a .skp file.

 

Sure it's just a JPEG, because it only is a chart of the various sizes.

You can download my ATX 2.2 spec if you want a SKP-file of the three most common sizes.

 

Sorry, I was meaning that the image is only linked to itself (the thumbnail image), I could have used it, if it was full size. It was more a point of informing there was possibly an issue with the content of the site than anything else.

I'll use yours in the mean time, cheers.

 

I made some bitspower fittings today in 3ds max, does anyone want them ? I also made a dual rotary adapter but it's not in this render.

I can export them to .obj but i can't remember if sketchup can import that.

 

Because I'll get rid of my big machine I was thinking about a SFF-case.

As I've built an office-rig with the Chieftec BT-02B (E350 mainboard, SSD, DVD-ROM), I've decided to model it in SketchUp, as I'm going to use it to build a workstation with it. Really small footprint with only 135x240x295mm (width x depth x height). I'm going to use my current hardware, with a new motherboard and a new low-profile HD7750, so the two 60mm fans in the back and the single 80mm fan in the front should be totally enough, even at low RPM.

Those interested in the case, it's really solid and comes with a 80+ 180W SFX-PSU included at only €60, so it's a real bang-for-the-buck SFF-case.

Model is complete with DVD-ROM, mainboard-dummy, GPU-dummy, 3.5" HDD, fans, screws and a Samuel17-cooler I'm going to use.
With the Samuel17 the DVD-ROM has no place tho, but as I'm using an external USB-DVD this isn't an issue.



Download SKP -> http://sharesend.com/lyfzk09c

I've submitted the model to SCC aswell.

 

Hi guys.

May I ask does any of you have model of 4 (4,3) or 5'' lcd?

I am looking for something similar to this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/290923425270?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

 

Hi there,

As part of my next project, I'm going to be accurately modeling a load of components. I'm using Autodesk Inventor and Blender so won't be exporting them as sketchup files, but I know that Sketchup can import .stl files fine so I'll use those (plus they work very well in other packages too)

So first up is an XSPC EX360 Crossflow Radiator



Download link (via Mediafire): Here

Warning: This is a very high poly model (~140k polys) as all the fins are also geometry.

It's as accurate as I could make it, all the measurements were made using calipers on an actual EX360 rad.

The model may need to be scaled depending on which program you used. I scaled it down by a factor of 10 when I imported into Blender from Inventor (I made the fins in Blender). So you may have to scale it up by 10 when importing it, not sure on that but it should be obvious enough, just bear in mind that it's going to be factors of 10 out in terms of units if it's not correct.