Virtual joinery, shop drawings, and the core of using SketchUp for timber frame design.
I’ll be teaching a SketchUp preconference workshop at the Timber Framer’s Guild Eastern Conference. I’m stepping in for Clark Bremer who had some last minute plan changes and will not be able to make the trip. The course is filling fast – sign up with the TFG – I hope to see you in Saratoga!
This is a test post using the SketchUp Web Exporter. Pretty simple way to embed ‘3d’ SketchUp into a website… and there’s more in the works with a simple hack to replace the images generated by the script with images saved as scenes. Currently it seems to run a bit cleaner in IE and Google Chrome. FireFox gets ’stuck’ and it sometimes lurches between images…
I found a few pics scanned from slides to CD of my formative timber frame years. The snap below is from a barn repair and conversion I collaborated on outside of Columbus, Ohio. The hewn oak swing beam is 12″ thick and 24″ tall at the center. The posts are gunstocked in the direction of the plates and there was an interlocking tie / plate / post joint to bring everything together.
Swing beam - typical of Bent 2 and 3. Hewn white oak.
Private Residence in Salina, KS.
Architect – David Exline
Builder – Bill Davis of Davis and Associates
Timber Frame – Mike Beganyi / New Energy Works
Timber Frame Materials – Douglas Fir and RF Dried Douglas Fir
Photos courtesy of David Exline.
SketchUp for Timber Framers and Designers 2008 class photo.
There are still a few seats remaining for the SketchUp for Timber Framers and Designers at Heartwood May 25-27, 2009. Contact Will (will (at) heartwoodschool (dot) com for more details, or visit the Heartwood website.
Traditional joinery and shop drawings...
...and tricks and tips for modeling compound joinery.
Spiral trunk...
Interesting tree found on the Land’s End trail in San Francisco. Whipped by the wind and living in the fog it reminds me of another tree that lives in a very different environment back east. Turning north we had a great view to the bridge.
View to the bridge...
Found via a link from the Timber Framer’s Guild Design Forum.
Its the only one we've got...
North Light on the Burlington Waterfront.
A recent snap from one of my early morning rides. Spring is slowly showing itself… life on two wheels returns to form.
Rifling through my various portfolios I found slides of work completed by some of my students way back in 1999. I had the pleasure (and challenge) of getting a last minute assignment to teach foundation level design at the Cleveland Institute of Art. I was simultaneously trying to breathe new life into the foundation level wood shop – so I had my hands full as I took time off from graduate school. A mid semester project was to create a device to lower an egg two stories safely to the ground. Typically a high school physics problem – we explored this as conceptual art meets design problem. I placed a heavy focus on ‘craft’ and hands on skill building in my course – be it a student taking on complicated wood and metal working or learning techniques for staging and coordinating their own documentary photography. Concept played a key role in all of the projects – and craft followed as students learned to make their vision a physical reality. Below are a few of my favorites.
