Great work there. I need to learn this balance between make it perfect and make it done. Need to keep reminding myself to be productive and leave my perfectionist aside.
Since I saw in another guy's tutorial about flattening points in a plane with Fredoscale, my life is much easier and happier. All the stuff you're going thru in 1:00:16 it's solved in a couple of clicks If you don't know what I mean, just grab all the "offending" lines/points, launch Fredo Box Scaling and it should be a pretty flat box, but not completely flat. Then grab the central point of the box and type 0. That'll put all of those lines/points in the same plane Oh, and with curviloft that happens a lot. Actually, with almost any surface in Sketchup that requires very small triangles, and that's what curviloft do to solve surfaces thru curves, throw a sh*tload of triangles that the Sketchup engine can't hold sometimes
Solid Inspector 2 does a good job but sometimes misses things. Solid Inspector, the older version, finds the culprit 100% though doesn't fix the errors. I use both so, when SI2 doesn't fix the issue because can't find it, SI shows what's wrong to fix it manually
Is there both a comprehensive and quick start tutorial on this channel for noobs? Also, is the trial version fully functional? Can I send floor plans to the printer?
Kinda missed the livestream yesterday, since, well, I'm on the other half of the Earth. But I've discovered a kinda non-destructive way to use Solid Tools without having to destroy a solid component. Usually I would go inside to the mesh level of the Component, select all them mesh, and then Make Group for all of them. Afterwards, I would go outside, copy or cut the 'cutter cube', go back inside the component, and here's the trick, I would Paste in Place that cutter cube, and then just use the Solid Tools as usual. That way, the component is still saved and well preserved.
As much as Aaron enjoys modeling, he has a full time job! If you join a live stream you can always suggest a model. Who knows, your idea might get modeled live then shared with the world! You might also reach out on our forum (forums.sketchup.com) and see if you can find a modeler over there!
if you took the time to make accurate line measurements you could model far more efficiently and accurately its glaringly obvious you did not even properly center the crest @38:40 and you're bezier also fell short.. the helmet is perfectly symmetrical with right and left halves
