Thankyou very much for your insight. In consideration of the facts, I will
go down this morning and retake the photos. Hopefully that will help me
produce better results.I appreciate the sketchup Community!
Rob Orizino
Two suggestions:
- try to make sure the camera is pointed as close to horizontally as you can. Step back and zoom out rather than pointing up, as this will distort the perspective and give you a more difficult starting point.
- if possible, position yourself so that you get a more or less similar perspective on the two faces of the building. This will let you place the match photo pins more successfully.
SketchUp assumes that the optical center of an image matches its center point. If it doesnât, MatchPhoto wonât work OK. Cropping usually moves the optical center. The pixel dimensions of the image you last posted do not look to me as if they came straight from a camera.
Anssi
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DaveâŚI tried to duplicate your crown on the building, so I aligned the
edge to the vertical blue axis and drew a simple shape. I then hightlighted
the shape and clicked on âfollow meââŚthatâs when the shape I drew
unhighlited itself. Trtied everything to get the follow me tool to actually
follow. Hereâs a screenshot⌠RoB
Go back and read the post where I described using Follow Me. I said select the edges of the building along top, get Follow Me and THEN click on the profile. do not select the profile first.
Is the building a group or component? If so, open it for editing and draw the profile in the same context as the geometry of the building.
DaveâŚYou can see that I hightlited the top line of the building. I then
selected the simple squalre I had made. Clicked âfollow meâ and nothing
happens. Sadly, Iâm in a quandry.
Thankyou,
Rob
Again, in THIS ORDER.
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Highlight the four top edges of the building.
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Get the Follow Me tool.
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Click on the profile face of the crown.
Try it with this example.
fm exercize.skp (15.6 KB)
Is the building a group or component? If so, you canât select its edges without opening it for edit and canât apply followme to a profile that is outside the group or component! Said another way, the path and profile must be in the same edit context.
DaveâŚI donât know what you mean by all four sidesâŚDoes this screen
shot tell you what I did wrong? Thanks,
Until now I had no idea that your building only consists of two âwallsâ.
The orientation of of your profile isnât correct. Go back and looked the example screenshots I made for you earlier this morning.
The steps are still the same once you rotate the profile.
- Select the edges that make up the path.
- Get the Follow Me tool.
- Click on the face of the profile.
Try it with this example file.
fm exercise.skp (14.1 KB)
Right now, your profile is parallel to the first line in your path. You need to rotate it 90 degrees counter clockwise. then you should be good!
SteveâŚI like what you made for the crownâŚI have spent 2 days trying
many different thingsâŚBTWâŚdoes it matter of the triagular profile is
touching thebody of the building? ThankyouâŚRoB
Rob, did you try the exercise file I supplied for you in my previous post? Itâs all set up for you to try so you can see how it should work.
Steve, You have a profound understanding of what being a newbie is. I have
yeras of experience with Corel products, Photoshop, AI, and others, but
this is a whole new language, and many of the things that are usually
intuitive, are challenging to say the least. Your illustration was awesome
and I did it right away. I spent much of the afternoon trying to âdockâ
this sign on the front of the building, but it keeps getting away from me.
Right now itâs about 5 feet from the building. When I try to bring it
closer it jumps all over and part of it goes through the wall of the
building. This is a screen shot of thge crown that I easily made and the
sign that wonât install on the wall of the structure. Any suggestions?
Thankyou. And thankyou Dave too! RoB
