Sketchup Help

[Spacehonkey]

I've been only using Skethup for about 2 weeks now so I've still got a lot of stuff to learn. My current problem is I would like to make a fang but would like to know if there is an easy way to do this.

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j189/spacehonkey/fang.jpg

I've used the FollowMe tool but & then tried to scale down the other end to a point but then I have select each & every segment & scale those down. This is a huge time consumer & would like to speed this up.

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1488/fang1ag1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/8541/fang2wb6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

As you can see it still doesn't look like a fang.

[SgtM]

Reminds me more of a bent solid rocket booster from the space shuttle. Try making the fangs more tapered through the whole thing. Here's a google image search for fangs:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=fangs&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi

[Spacehonkey]

I'm trying to make a snake fang so it's got to be long & curved like the ones pictured here. I know I can tapper each segment but is there a faster way to do it?

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j189/spacehonkey/diamondback-teeth.jpg

[SgtM]

I'm stumped on this one. I thought it would be easy. Been playing around and searching google for about an hour, and I can't figure it out. Anyone else want to have a stab at it?

[GT40_GearHead]

man that google thing is EVIL !!!!


i tried to make a bent pipe, and after half an hour i had nothing to show !

i must be dumb or something.... d'oh !! :D

[Spacehonkey]

Here is what I come up with when I turn on the Hidden Geometry in the View Menu and select each axes point and then scale them down individually.
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j189/spacehonkey/fang3.jpg
As you can see I do get the look of a fang but it took a lot of play to make it look smooth like this. There has got to be an easier way, there's just got to be.

[luciusad2004]

Im not sure how much this will help, but it details how to use the follow me tool as a lathe.

OMG CLICK ME (http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=39339&topic=9050)

Id like to say, i feel your pain. i have so much trouble with sketch up. I can never get anything to work the way i want. I probably just need more practice.

[Spacehonkey]

luciusad2004 thx for the link I could definitely use this in future. I can't believe I missed this tutorial. +rep