excelnow Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 My client wants this custom design in the railing & I have no idea how to accomplish this. I have searched The CA website & sketchup for this to no avail. Help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted May 22, 2019 Share Posted May 22, 2019 Looks like a relatively simple silhouette. Construct it with polyline solids/solids and make it into a millwork symbol and apply to railing as panel. https://www.chiefarchitect.com/support/article/KB-02893/creating-custom-balusters-and-railing-panels.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excelnow Posted May 23, 2019 Author Share Posted May 23, 2019 I have tried your suggestion but when I try to take the hole out of the middle, it also removes the boat. I even tried to remove the boat before creating the hole. Something small if preventing this from working. Thanks for you attention though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted May 23, 2019 Share Posted May 23, 2019 If you are almost there post the plan file with a few notes for some help. Or if you have a way of recording post a video of where it goes wrong for you. In theory you should be able to cut a round hole and then put the sailboat into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexnicole498 Posted May 30, 2019 Share Posted May 30, 2019 You probably already figured this out on your own by now, but I was bored so I gave it a shot. Import it as millwork. The sail is a bit different, but it's not bad I think. I imported a silhouette of a sailboat, traced it, convert to psolids, make psolid balusters, solid subtracted to make the circle. I pretty much followed the link chopsaw provided from there I think. sailboat rail panel.3ds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excelnow Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 Uh, I haven't but God bless you for doing this! Thank you both. I am going to use this now. I will let you know how this turns out. How long have you been using Chief?,.. if you don't mind me asking. Would you happen to know where I can purchase trees from, aside from Chiefs 3D Library? Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, excelnow said: Would you happen to know where I can purchase trees from, aside from Chiefs 3D Library? You might take a look here for some basic stuff : https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/search/?q=trees Did you have anything specific in mind ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excelnow Posted June 1, 2019 Author Share Posted June 1, 2019 Absolutely, Royal Palm double alexander palms cabada palms dwarf olive tree 15g traveler palms 25g traveler palms 10g imperialis 7g black ruffles full sun Alocasia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 27 minutes ago, excelnow said: Absolutely, That is getting pretty specific. You may want to start a new thread that is appropriately titled for that topic. Also if you want high or low resolution 2D or 3D and for use in Chief I am assuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted June 1, 2019 Share Posted June 1, 2019 3 hours ago, excelnow said: Would you happen to know where I can purchase trees from, aside from Chiefs 3D Library? Thanks in advance. Check out Xfrog. http://xfrog.com/category/xfrogplants.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexnicole498 Posted June 3, 2019 Share Posted June 3, 2019 On 5/31/2019 at 11:31 PM, excelnow said: Uh, I haven't but God bless you for doing this! Thank you both. I am going to use this now. I will let you know how this turns out. How long have you been using Chief?,.. if you don't mind me asking. Almost 10 years now, but about 2 years full time. No ideas about trees beyond what others have suggested. Good luck though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
excelnow Posted June 4, 2019 Author Share Posted June 4, 2019 Yes, I have found just about everything that I needed in 3d trees in sketchup 3d warehouse. Although at first I was frustrated I could not find anything until I realized I was searching in the furniture section. Once I changed it to all I celebrated. Also, I attempted the Sailboat railing and figured out how to do it. I would like to say thank you for everyone that jumped in to help steer me in the right direction. Especially "Chiefuserthomasw". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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