Old School Space Rocket: The Exhaust Cloud Stand
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Published on November 27, 2008
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Description
Felt like the Old School Space Rocket needed a stand to show it off to best effect... and I needed something to play around with automatic tab generation in sketchup.
Here's the result, dressed up to look like a cartoon exhaust cloud.
Here's the result, dressed up to look like a cartoon exhaust cloud.
Instructions
Cut from 12"x12" 1/8" stock and follow your instincts to assemble the parts. ;-) Look at the picture here for hints.
Seriously, it should be fairly obvious what goes where.
When you're done and you're ready to place the rocket in position, hold it at 30 degrees from horizontal, with one fin up and the other two to either side. You should be able to place the bottom of the hull on the lowest stop of the stand's sawtooth, and the hull's spine should drop into the slot cut into each tooth.
Seriously, it should be fairly obvious what goes where.
When you're done and you're ready to place the rocket in position, hold it at 30 degrees from horizontal, with one fin up and the other two to either side. You should be able to place the bottom of the hull on the lowest stop of the stand's sawtooth, and the hull's spine should drop into the slot cut into each tooth.
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Anonymous
on
December 25, 2008
said:
Can you please expand about automatic tab generation in Sketchup. I cannot find any reference the feature except for your mention of it...
Thanks!
syvwlch
on
January 6, 2009
said:
It's not a feature of sketchup per se.
Here's what I do:
1. draw the faces
2. position them relative to each other
3. extrude each of them by the thickness of the material
4. use the intersect command to create lines at the intersections between the various faces created above
5. delete everything except a single face (now with the proper tabs cut out!) for each piece
It's more of a process, really, but it makes tabs and slots much easier, I find.
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Old School Space Rocket: The Exhaust Cloud Stand by syvwlch is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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Made my space ship from 1/8 fiberboard from home depot. total cost about $.25 for materials. A great way to test a design, although the material makes a tighter fit than acrylic would
It looks nice, too. Thanks for sharing the picture. :-)