Hello, I am having problem with the follow me tool. The dimensions on this model are about. 1-1/2" by 3/4"D.
Please see the screen recording.
Too small, look here.
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It DOES work with small arches, IF you follow @Box advice!
Read the topic in the link he gave youâŚ
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Scaling down? I donât see that as straightforward workaround. So, no, it does not work as intended.
Who said anything about scaling down? With the âDave methodâ there is no scaling down involved.
SketchUp has limitations for creating very tiny faces. It was not designed for modeling tiny objects such as your knobs. The faces can be created at a larger size and exist smaller. Using the Dave Method only requires making a copy of the component and scaling the copy up before running Follow Me or doing other things that would create the tiny faces. After completing the Follow Me step, exit editing mode and delete the giant copy of the component. Zoom back to the original copy and the geometry will be there.
Follow Me is working as intended. SketchUp is doing what it was designed to do.
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All I can say is, good luck with the next software you choose. This one isnât for you.
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It does not.
Wrong answer. Wrong attitudeâŚ
I donât understand why are you settling with less and not pushing the dev team to make SketchUp better?
Besides, Iâve invested way too much TIME and MONEY to listen to your recommendation and move on with another softwareâŚ
Such a fantastic argument.
So you would rather wait some years or forever before you model your doorknob instead of just taking the advice you have been given and get on with it. The limit to SketchUpâs face creating capability is somewhere about 1 mm and it has been known and nagged about for decades. I would guess at this time in history it is take it or leave it.
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SketchUp is a face modeller. I understand fixing the problem would require a complete rewrite of the application, using a solids or NURBS core. My prediction is that it wonât happen. Jewellers use other software. SketchUp was from the start geared towards architecture. Thatâs why you cannot model a virus or the solar system to full scale with it.
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Itâs well known and often complained aboutâŚ
But to avoid the tiny edges issue would require the entire SketchUp programâs geometry engine to be rewritten to stop its internal tolerance of 1/1000" causing these issues.
SketchUp regards any two points closer than its tolerance to be coincident, so the tiny <1/1000" edge is not made and its related faces are not made.
This isnât a problem when real world sized objects like buildings, doors and windows are modelled.
With the advent of 3d-printing and very detailed work becoming more popular the âscalingâ fix was devised. Dave codified this in a simple solution.
Make your object in a component.
Copy it to one side and use scale to blow-up that copy [say by 1000].
Now edit it and do your operations inside that copy.
Because itâs not going to have the tiny edges issue it should work.
Exit the edit.
When you edit a component instance any of its siblings are similarly changed.
If you look at the original it will also be OK and modified.
Delete the temporary blow-up copy.
The original sized copy keeps its changes.
Tiny geometry can exist in SketchUp, but it cannot be created.
Your failure is not a âbugâ itâs a limitation of the software.
Youâve been given a workaround which takes seconds to do, but prefer to spend unproductive hours complaining about something thatâs not going to change any time soon.
Even then you could complain that say you model of a real sized atom wasnât working because the new tolerance was too coarse.
No one is defending SketchUpâs foibles, or attacking you personally - although you have not been so generous to members sincerely trying to help you.
You are in danger of a ban for your rudeness and âungentelmanly-conductâ = @TheOnlyAaron
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You said that 1mm was too small for SketchUp to work properly.
In my problematic model, the line is 6mm long.
But you see, thatâs not my case⌠my line is 1/4".
You have failed to understand that all of the related geometry, like the circle, might contain tiny edges [within the tolerance] but the follow-me created geometry might then be even smaller and fail.
The solution offered works.
Use it, or donât model tiny geometry, or find another software.
None of this seemingly endless diatribe gets anyone anywhere fast the hard way !
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We can only guess, but you have to understand that in a 3d environment 6mm is only one dimension. The endpoints of the 6mm edge could well be within .002 of another edge.
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I did check the âtemplateâ circle as well and each line of the circle is 1/16". So this couldâve been the problem?
Jeez⌠this is getting more and more complicated lol
Anyhow, thanks for your temporary solution. SketchUp should use it as a suggestion when people use follow me tool.