Follow-me never seems to work like I expect. Right now, I’m trying to use it wrap an edge profile around 90 degree bends. When I try it one way, it pretty much works, but leaves a surface open. When I select a different starting surface, it works, but clobbers what seems to be unrelated geometry: …

As for the missing faces, it’s probably a size thing. How big is it? In your second GIF, the problem is the size of the profile face and its relationship to the path.It’s sweeping that profile around the curve as you are asking it to do. What you are seeing is a bit like when a truck with a long ov…

I see now the issue in the second example. I scaled up by 1000x, do the same operation as first example, and no gaps. Hooray! The object is several inches in each dimension. Is that considered small? Precision is set to .0000", length snapping is not enabled. Should I always work with a greatl…

[image] davethomaspilot: The object is several inches in each dimension. Is that considered small? By itself no. But the small geometry being created during Follow Me is. [image] davethomaspilot: Precision is set to .0000" That’s only display precision. It has no effect on the small f…

Yes, in addition to 3d printing, the model needs to be a component with other 3d modeled components. That’s why I mentioned scaling back down. I’d scaled it down since the solid issues were fixed (thanks for that!). I just didn’t realize sketchup would have problems with items in this size range. …

[image] davethomaspilot: I just didn’t realize sketchup would have problems with items in this size range. SketchUp was designed primarily to be used for architectural modeling. As such it does a pretty good job with small details but what you are working with is smaller than it is normally d…

That’s good to know. Is the result the same as if you scaled down instead of editing the component? So, if I follow correctly, editing a scaled instance of a component will result in the non-scaled component being edited without having the small geometry issue? That saves a bit of time. Thanks!

[image] davethomaspilot: Is the result the same as if you scaled down instead of editing the component? It is basically the same however I find it useful for a number of reasons. One is that I can start modeling a component at actual size and in the exact location it needs to be when I’m done…

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Follow-me leaves gaps in surface or clobbers unrelated geometry

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