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Method of making wavy S-shaped edge ceramic fruit bowl with SketchUp

Step 0 1: Import the picture into SketchUp, mainly for reference.

Step 2: We can prepare three plug-ins for TIG common toolbars-extrude tools-full set (TIG), Loft-curvi loft, quadrilateral tools-quadracetools, and super push-pull-joint push-pull interactive (Fredo). After the plug-in is done, we can make a model.

First of all, we can observe that the target model is a fruit bowl with a flat center and a little slope around it, which is a regular wavy line. Let's take it as a wavy line for the time being. Then we counted 28 concave parts and 28 convex parts. With this in mind, let's start with segmentation. First, use SketchUp's circle drawing tool to draw a circle with 56 sides on the plane, enter 56s in the lower right corner, and press enter. Then use SketchUp's straight line tool to divide the circular surface (draw a line in a special direction as far as possible), and draw a straight line vertically at the end of the center line to ensure that the height of the vertical line is about half the radius of the circular surface. Select the vertical line and use SketchUp's rotation tool to rotate it 30 degrees outward. This step also shows the importance of choosing a line with a special direction when drawing a straight line.

Step 03: Select the rotated straight line, take the circle center as the rotation center, and use SketchUp's rotation tool to rotate and copy 4 copies, 2 copies clockwise and 2 copies counterclockwise.

Step 04: Next, draw the curved part of the edge of the fruit bowl. If the SketchUp arc drawing tool can't capture the green arc shown below, you can draw a straight line like me, connect the two sides that need to draw an arc, use them to generate a plane, and then draw an arc, which is easy to draw.

Step 05: You can delete the auxiliary lines drawn in the previous step, leaving an arc triangular surface. Double-click the arc triangular surface, take the circle center as the rotation center, and rotate and copy 1 copy. Note the location of the copy here. Then the five elements drawn in front come into play. Use SketchUp Arc Drawing Tool to lock the direction (make sure it is on the horizontal plane) and draw two arcs, as shown below.

Step 06: Activate SketchUp's move tool, and move the vertex of the triangle arc surface drawn earlier to the midpoint of the arc (no object can be selected before activating the move command).

Step 07: In this step, only the redundant line segments need to be deleted, and a small part of the contour line can be obtained. Select all contours and right-click to create a group.

Step 08: We select a group, double-click to enter the group editing state, select all contours, click the contour lofting (the third icon) in the loft loft-curvil oft tool, wait for the green check mark to appear, and click the left key at any position to complete the surface creation.

Step 08: Through the next step, you can complete a small part. You should guess what I'm talking about here, that is, we usually use SketchUp's zoom tool to copy a copy and put it aside (to prevent the model from crashing), then flip the mirror image, and then click the edit menu bar to paste it in the original position and paste it out. If there is a deviation between them in position and angle, just use the moving tool and rotating tool in SketchUp to adjust.

Step 09: Don't be distracted. This step does not use plug-ins, but only uses the rotation tool in SketchUp to complete the model creation. Select two group objects, activate the SketchUp rotation tool, lock the blue axis, and rotate and copy 13 copies with the center of the circle as the reference point. At this time, the approximate shape of the whole wavy fruit bowl came out.

Step 10: Then select ***28 group objects to create a large group, enter group editing, select all 28 groups, right-click to explode the model, wait for the computer operation to complete, exit the editing state, and right-click the softened/smoothed object.

Step 1 1: Any actual object has a thickness, and the fruit bowl is no exception. Select the object, enter the group editing state, click the joint push-pull tool in the super push-pull-joint push-pull interaction (Fredo), which is the blue icon with the letter J, click the left on the target surface, enter the value in the lower right box, press enter, wait a moment, and a thick fruit bowl will appear.

Step 12: Although the rough shape of the fruit bowl has come out, the edge is very stiff. In this step, we will improve the hardness of the edge of the fruit bowl. Enlarge the viewing angle in the group editing state, and delete the side where the edge thickness of the fruit bowl is pushed out. At this time, there are only two sides left, one is up and the other is down. Here, you can select the edge line of the selected surface with the help of the ring in the four-sided tool (a four-sided tool) and right-click the welding edge line. Do the same for the lower surface.

Step 13: First, we try to draw an edge line connecting the upper and lower surfaces as a reference in a special direction (special direction refers to the direction parallel to the coordinate axis), and then activate the arc drawing tool to draw the section line we need to set out (in order to ensure that the plane where the arc is located is perpendicular to the original edge surface, we can modify the number of segments by adding the letter S after the numerical value).

Step 14: After drawing the arc, without selecting any line, select the double-track lofting command in the common toolbar of TIG -ExtrudeTools-FullSet(TIG) (where the starting contour line and the ending contour line are the same line, that is, the arc), and then select to generate a quadrilateral surface according to the prompt, then exit the editing state, and click the right mouse button on the whole model to soften/smooth it.

Step 14: Softening the whole model and adjusting some details, such a wavy S-shaped fruit bowl is officially created.

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