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Creating 3D Canopy in SketchUp

Discussion in 'Functional Aircraft Accessories' started by pezzer2003, Dec 22, 2010.

  1. pezzer2003

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    G’day,
    I was wondering if anyone knows of a tutorial or “how to” for creating 3D canopy’s for aircraft using SketchUp?
    I have finished several designs now. And with my MK and PhlatFormer on there way, I was going to make clear canopy’s for everything but for the life of me I am having a lot of trouble creating the dome effect...

    Thanks,
    Matt
     
    pezzer2003, Dec 22, 2010
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    Wow this is great.... I was already using curviloft and it works grat but getting that bubble effect was driving me nuts.. Soapskin is great.
    Thanks Kram
     
    pezzer2003, Jan 3, 2011
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    :D No problem Matthew. This is one of those WOW plugins for Sketchup and I have had a lot of fun with it.
    Hope you do to
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Jan 3, 2011
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    I'm not very good with it, but the Subdivide and Smooth plugin is pretty good at making organic shapes. I created the simple model on the left, and SDS plugin did the rest.

    Attached files [​IMG] fuse.skp (168.9 KB)Â
     
    jimfoltz, Jan 4, 2011
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    Awesome Jim Thank you for sharing this!
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Jan 5, 2011
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    Well after a couple of days work and I finally have a finished product... I intend to use this on a 1.2 meter wingspan Spitfire. I’m going to make a plug from the MK when I get it then make the canopy in the Phlatformer I just finished..
    Thanks again Mark for the help,
    I’m posting the SU8 file and my CNC file if anyone wanted to have a go at cutting it out or making the CNC file a bit better...
    Matt
    Attached files Final Canopy.cnc (330 KB)Â Final Canopy.skp (476.6 KB)Â [​IMG]
     
    pezzer2003, Jan 12, 2011
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    Nice job Matt! You jumped right in and already creating cool 3D files :D
    Thank you for sharing this
    Mark and Trish
     
    kram242, Jan 13, 2011
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