SketchUp Masonry Heater Resource Folder

SketchUp for Heater Builders
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The first iteration of the SketchUp for Masonry Heater Resource Folder has been created!

The current version is hosted as a publicly accessible Google Drive link.

You can currently add to it by uploading files to this topic. A better method for contributions will be determined soon.

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Hi Max

The SketchUp Masonry Heater Resource Folder Link is showing up as an empty folder for me.
Possibly the permissions are set to -only viewable to those who have the link?

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I had a sync issue which erased the copy of the files I had prepared. We are working on the library now and have an ambitious goal of publishing something this Friday.

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I still have an empty folder?

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@Mas_con_Menos, thank you for the nudge…
@Sam has just published our first version of this archive:

Sketchup Heater Builder Component Library v0.1

We are starting it off with the following folders to get it off the ground:

  • Foundation Materials - CMU Block Units, Rebar, Slabs
  • Refractory Materials - Firebrick and Refractory Tile
  • Firespeaking Hardware - Our Catalog of Hardware for Designers & Builders to incorporate into their design, presentation, and sales work.

We are starting it out hosting it as a publically available Google Drive folder.
Please confirm that it is generally accessible.

The idea is that others might take the folders and create things to add to them. For now, the format would be to post proposed updates here. For example, the “Foundation Materials” folder could use 4" block added to it. It would be neat to have folders for heater concept designs.

@borealheat and I were both introduced to SketchUp by William Davenport who had a nice starter file of many useful models for heater and oven builders. We will see if we can ask for permission to share those or not.

For reference, here’s more on the concept of Open Source Heater Building.

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Max thanks for putting this together! Is there anyway you could save these files as version 8. I like most rocker stove folks am still working in the older still free versions of sketchup.

thanks!

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I found a plugin that will back convert newer files to older versions of sketchup

Hopefully this helps someone.

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It helped me, thank you.

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Hi all,

An update that we have moved this SketchUp folder of Heater Building Components to Dropbox…

Sketchup Heater Builder Component Library v0.1

It could definitely use to be populated further but wanted to provide this update for now.

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Hi all,

Another update. As I spend time organizing files this winter, I have decided to disable this openly accessible folder of SketchUp resources due to underwhelming interest. It takes effort to maintain an archive of files for the public and there doesn’t seem to be enough interest to warrant the effort.

Regards,
Max

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Hi Max,

I am in the process of designing a system, and i found this thread. I see the google drive is closed to the public, as per your post. Would it be possible for me to access it? Thanks.

The amount of resources and discussion here on this forum is staggering, and its making most of the research and collating I’ve done up until finding this rather obsolete. Oh well, at least I have a bit of a foundation! Thanks again.

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Hi @WayUpNort, welcome!

I think the way that we are going to handle this moving forward is to have the SketchUp files for individual pieces of hardware available for download on their specific product pages in the hardware catalog.

@borealheat spent some time this winter cleaning up the files in preparation for this step.

If you reply with a list of products you would like the files for, we could try to make these the first available.

We also are interested in sharing some of our stock components for brick, block, footers, flue tile and maybe even chimney components for chimney design. We have an important project to accomplish of centralizing our account log-ins (across our mailing list, website, and forum). Once we pull that off, we can make that available for all with an established account, likely just a subscriber although possibly a builder-level account.

As you can see, we’re still trying to figure it out and balancing our interest in open source heater building with supporting ourselves in the endeavor.