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We need to select the bit that we are going to replicate. By default the 'Geometry' button is selected - see the notes on the image if it isn't - so we can now just select the circle. It should turn red like on my screen.
Use the offset too to draw two new lines near the middle of the domino, one on each side of the one you've just drawn.
Click the Offset tool button (or press 'O' on your keyboard) then click the middle line, move your mouse away a little then click again. Do this again to draw another line on the other side of the middle line.
Now use the general dimension tool to re-position the two new lines. Make the distance between each line 0.5mm. The original middle line will not move - as long as it is in the middle of the domino, if you didn't use the snap then it might move!
Thanks to Christopher Cheung (Product Line Manager For SketchBook Pro) for the invitation to Autodesk Sketchbook's FEBTOR 2013 event. I had so much fun at last year's Sketchbook Toronto event. The theme this time: Storytelling. Guests included: Alex Woo (Pixar story artist, worked on Ratatouille, WALL-E, more), Scott Robertson (concept artist), C.B. Cebulski (Senior VP Marvel/Disney), Willow Dawson (writer & illustrator, comics & children's books, teacher), Francis Manapul (DC comics artist), Ramón Pérez (cartoonist). More info: www.sketchbookartgallery.com/
To those who attended the event: feel free to share any of these photos in social media or in blog posts about the event, or to help promote Autodesk / Sketchbook Pro / Chris Cheung; please include a photo credit, thanks. :-)
Your screen should now look like this.
This next bit is tricky - deliberately so, I want to show you how to do a few things that are dead useful - first off is using the offset tool, this lets you recreate a line or shape but in a slightly different position. Second is the construction line tool - this one lets you draw lines that you can use to position other parts of your sketch but won't be used by any extrusions or revolutions - believe me this is useful!
This time we are going to draw a circle. this is the same process as drawing a rectangle (one click to start, another to stop) but we use the circle tool instead. See if you can find it, then make your screen look like mine.
Autodesk gave us a great tour of their state-of-the-art workshop on the San Francisco waterfront, organized by the ReMake Education Summit team.
Autodesk's Pier 9 workshop explores new ways of making things, using state-of-the-art production tools and machinery. They support a community of designers, engineers, artists, and innovators who are putting all this technology to good use.
It’s also a great example of what a large and well-funded makerspace can look like, and how it works. It inspired me to try some of these tools and techniques, and bring some of their process into our own makerspace at Tam Makers -- as well as into my Maker Art classes.
Learn more about the Autodesk Workshop at Pier 9: www.autodesk.com/pier-9
Learn more about Tam Makers: www.tammakers.org/
Learn more about the Maker Art classes I teach: bit.ly/teaching-maker-art
Now use the Direction 2 button to select the other direction for our array. You will probably have to flip the direction like I had to. See the image for more notes.
Rather than draw four more circles and dimension each of them we are going to draw one and create an 'array' - a quick way to replicate shapes accurately.
Draw another circle in the far right corner, it should be 5mm in diameter, and 5mm from the side and the end. It should look exactly like mine.
Press Escape on your keyboard to ensure you have no tool selected. Now click on the original middle line, it should go red. Now with the line still selected click the 'Construction' button on the top menu, this will turn the line from a solid line into a dashed line.
Check your screen look exactly like mine.
Use the General Dimension tool to move the circle to the middle of the rectangle. To do this we need to click three times - once on the long edge of the rectangle (it will turn red when your mouse is over it), then once on the centre of the circle (again it will show up in red when you mouse over) then once more away from the end of the cuboid to place the dimension.
42 steps, what a coincidence! We're finished with the step by step tutorial, if you've done everything correctly then your domino should look like this one. If not then go back to see where you might have made a mistake, feel free to leave a comment if you want help - an accompanying screenshot would help too.
If you found that easy then go ahead an try modelling something else, or make some changes to this domino to make it look like the one in my next slide.
Still in Free Rotate mode try clicking and dragging while the mouse is outside of the circle - you will find you can rotate the object.
Something else you will need to do is Zoom - this means changing how far away the viewer is from the object, you can get a magnified or diminished view of the part. An easy way of doing this is by spinning the mouse wheel. Try moving the mouse to the top right of the screen and spinning the mouse wheel forwards, then spin it backwards. Now move the mouse to the bottom left of the screen and spin the wheel - did you see what happened? Now you have a lot of great ways of moving the object around the screen to allow you to see any aspect of it.