SketchUp – yesiwood.be https://www.yesiwood.be Yes I Wood! Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:31:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.yesiwood.be/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-LogoJo-2018-1-66x66.jpg SketchUp – yesiwood.be https://www.yesiwood.be 32 32 Arabesques and Moucharabiehs https://www.yesiwood.be/portfolio-items/arabesques-and-moucharabiehs/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:16:49 +0000 https://www.yesiwood.be/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=9821

Since building the first moucharabieh a few years back, it became time to update you on some new SketchUp design techniques that will help you speeding up the process and its accuracy. This guide is also published on Instructables.com

]]> The Making Of an Arabesque https://www.yesiwood.be/portfolio-items/the-making-of-an-arabesque/ Thu, 06 Feb 2014 15:33:35 +0000 https://www.yesiwood.be/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=5037

If you have ever visited Marrakech, chances are that you will never forget the intricate design of the many decorations. I surely didn’t. A great source of inspiration was the awesome book ” Arabesques – Decorative Art in Morocco”. It took me countless trials to come up with an acceptable design, which I finally did using SketchUp. I used Cocobolo as wood species. It is now part of a cabinet. Overall, almost two hundred pieces of cocobolo wood went into this arabesque, which measures 30 x 30 cm ( 12 x 12 inch).

The first step was to create the model in SketchUp ( I was at version 7 before being satisfied)

I then coloured all the similar pieces in SketchUp, and counted carefully the number needed.

Cutting was done on the bandsaw, with a dedicated jig angled at 90º, 45º, and 22.5º:

I then printed out the SketchUp file on true scale, and used this as basis for gluing – patiently – the pieces together.

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