The Wheel

With no Internet access for the weekend, I decided to explore Sketchup a little more. After going through one of SketchUp's tutorial which left my jaw on the floor last night, I decided to try something. Its a basic wheel but I still have yet to learn how to make it into those Off-Road wheels, the ones with those chunky rubbers sticking out.

SketchUp is free, by the way.

You start with the basic shape of the wheel
I did one here, which looked as if I had taken a slice off the wheel


Then you rotate it 360º. Because I have made the wheel into three
parts, I have to rotate them one by one


I did this halfway so I can show you how the three parts looked like


Looking a bit like some CAD design........


This is how it looked when completed


In colour


And, well, a bit more realistic


Here is the other side of the wheel


Oh, did I mention how big it was?


So, I placed it next to my other design, and this is where
my Notebook starts to struggle due to insufficient RAM


There you go, like something from a technical manual
"How to crush a bus with an Aeroplane wheel"


"Hey, let's get out of here! Some crazy guy just went through with his Lightsabre!"

Struck out

So, its been more than four days since lightning struck our area. From what I have tested, it got through:

1) ADSL Filter
2) ADSL Modem
3) Router

Yeah, this means I can only access the Net briefly in the office. But on the other hand, I managed to watch one DVD title almost to the end: John Woo's Hard Boiled.

Never thought there were so many bullets flying and also, most of the actors have not "aged" much for the past two decades or so. Wow