Can some one help me with this simple model?

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Hello everyone. I am trying to make what I believe is a simple ‘cup’ I guess you would call it, I have attached the model.

Oh my I have been at this for hours, and I mean hours, its for 3D printing and when imported into a slicer, its either solid between the two tubes or the plane between the two disappears.

When I try and make the model its just such a massive fight with sketchup, if anyone has any advice on how I should have built this thing then please let me know, because simple push, circles etc is not doing it.

Areas I have struggled with:

  • Aligning the various elements to be central
  • Creating a base for the larger cup and then cutting a hole into it for the next tube to go against. This seems simple but ■■■■ SU would not have it, either deleting the inside plane of the circle or pulling the walls through sort of thing, rather than a solid.
    I tired creating the second tube circle on the base and pulling that but then deleting or pushing the center to then create a hole will not work, it deletes the walls of the large circle
  • A constant fight with SU to move objects around, I understand the trick with the arrow keys to force it in one direction, but if its near another object it wont have it.

Sigh.help!.skp (1.7 MB)

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Have you tried using follow me.
Follow03

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■■■■ you made that look so easy! Let me try

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Oh my, this is so hard, I cannot get it to work. It wont close properly with a small shim that wont fill.

I looked up follow me on youtube, I am trying here. this one poxy model has nearly made me cry lol.

help2.skp (1.3 MB)

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Align the profile perpendicular to the path(the circle).
Follow05

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I think I did that the first time round but the bottom part was just a thin column.

I’ll try again

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You are also running into the tiny face issue, your circle has 60 segments, scale everything up by 100 and try again.

This will help explain the issue.

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Ok, but the circle is that a specific geometry, I am assuming its the size want the bottom part to be?

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The circle is a path, it can be any size. The dimensions of the finished item are controlled by how far the profile is from the center of the circle and the thickness of the profile…

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OK thanks.

I cannot do it, it always leaves a gap. I have increased by 100, the piece is now technically 3 metres tall. but there is still a gap it refuses to fill

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no wait hang on. I see. I had to select the circle then select the follow me tool then click the extrusion. I was try to select the circle after the follow me tool

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One other question probably windows related. As I am using sketchup windoes keeps flitting between a sketchup fil being a SKP or and Adobe Dimension file, I can literally watch the desk top refresh between the two. Anyone else seen this?

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■■■■ one more question scaling up was easy how do I scale it down by 100, -100 does not do it, and typing 100 again even though I am going the other way just duobles it.

I’ll leave you all alone after that I promise

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0.01 scale

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gotcha