Classical SketchUp Draft updated

I have made a major update to my book website Classical SketchUp - A Work in Progress and am pretty happy with it.

I have all the chapters up to and including The Tuscan Order in pretty good first draft state now, and have decided on the final layout and arrangement of chapters (which I have been debating about for months).

In the following week I hope to get the Doric and Ionic Order chapters in the same draft state as the Tuscan, and then can work on the rest later.

Thank you for reading this, and visiting the site. If you have any comments or suggestions, I would be happy to hear them (just please remember this is a work in progress, not a finished product).

Thank you,
Jamie Dimmel

Classical SketchUp Draft now online

In 2014 I had assembled a large number of notes on modeling the Classical Orders of Architecture in the 3D modeling program SketchUp, and soon decided to turn them into a book. Fast-forward five years and the work is still only in a rough, partial draft stage (largely due to constant replanning and rewriting on my part).

I have therefore decided to put the work online, in the hope it may (even in it's rough state) be of use to someone, and also to try and push me to finally finish it before I grow any older.

The site is hosted by Netlify, and can be found at Classical SketchUp - A Work in Progress.

Please bear in mind this is in an unfinished state, with some parts almost finalized, others in a rough draft, and still others nothing but jumbled together notes. Still, hopefully it may be of some use, and I will earnestly work on updating it in the days and weeks to come.

If you want to find out when updates to the work are uploaded, you can subscribe to this blog, where I will post notices on major uploads (trust me, you won't get spammed with email, I'm not that frequent, unfortunately).

Thank you,
Jamie E Dimmel

3D SketchUp Model - Whitmor Storage Cube

I have uploaded a 3D model to the SketchUp Warehouse of Whitmor Storage Cubes.

These are a storage solution I originally started using back in the 1980s. They are great for apartment dwellers, as they are open & see-through so don't make a small space feel cramped, can be assembled into a multitude of different configurations, and can be disassembled into a small package when moving from one space to another.

The current model is from Whitmor, and available from numerous outlets in the United States and Online.

The specs are:

• A single cube measures about 14.5 in x 14.5 in x 14.5 in.
• They are made of wire covered in either white or black plastic.
• The standard pack is designed to be assembled into a 4 cube block, containing 16 flats and 18 connectors.

My model features three components, a single cube, a four-cube block, and a three-cube tower, along with a few extra flats and connectors.

I hope you like them, and can make use of them.

Thank you,
Jamie E Dimmel

3D Model & Timelapse Video of the Tuscan Order in SketchUp

As a preview of a book I am writing on creating the Classical orders of architecture using SketchUp, I am releasing an example of what I am trying to achieve.

I have uploaded a 3D model of the Tuscan order, according to Sir William Chambers, to the SketchUp Warehouse, as Tuscan Order of Sir William Chambers.

In addition, I have uploaded a video, showing the making of the column in SketchUp, to Youtube, as Timelapse of Modeling the Tuscan Oder in SketchUp.

I hope you enjoy these examples of the Tuscan order in SketchUp, and I hope to have some more examples and information up in the near future.

Thank you,
Jamie E Dimmel